The terms governing your Founding 25 status. Plain English on purpose. Read before you apply, by submitting an application, you confirm you've read these terms and agree to them if accepted.
Summary. $29 per team per month, locked at the founder rate, on a 2-year founder agreement (paid annually upfront). Two founding teams maximum per company. Up to 25 founder spots, no waitlist beyond the 25. Plain terms, no hidden fees.
Founding 25 is the inaugural cohort of customers for Daily Scrum Space. The offer is $29 per team per month, locked at the founder rate, in exchange for a 2-year founder agreement and the commitments described in these terms.
The founder rate sits below our launch public rate of $49 per team per month (available until 31 August 2026) and well below our standard rate of $79 per team per month (effective from 1 September 2026). Once accepted as a Founding 25 team, the public price ladder does not move you.
A 1-year contract is also available at $29 per team per month for year 1, transitioning to standard pricing in year 2.
To qualify as a Founding 25 team, you must:
A single company can have a maximum of 2 Founding 25 teams. All Founding 25 teams within a single company must use the same shared email domain.
Performalise reserves the right to decline applications that do not meet these eligibility criteria.
The founder rate is $29 per team per month, plus applicable taxes. On a 2-year founder agreement, this rate applies for your full contract minimum (2 years) and auto-continues at each annual renewal thereafter for active accounts. Subsequent public price increases do not move active Founding 25 teams.
On a 1-year founder agreement, the founder rate applies during year 1 only. From year 2, standard pricing applies.
The founder rate is per team. Each Founding 25 team is licensed separately under these terms.
What "locked" means here. Your price is unconditional during your contract minimum (2 years on a 2-year founder agreement, or 1 year on the 1-year option), paid annually upfront, with no usage condition. After the contract minimum, the founder rate auto-continues at each renewal for active accounts (see Section 10). The founder rate itself does not expire, only the right to auto-continue at it depends on staying active.
The Founding 25 founder agreement has a minimum term of 2 years (or 1 year on the limited terms above). The minimum term begins on the Activation Date, the date your account is provisioned and access to Daily Scrum Space is granted.
Subscription fees are invoiced and paid annually in advance. On selection, you receive an invoice for the first annual period:
Total commitment under a 2-year founder agreement is $696 per team across the two years, plus applicable taxes.
Payment is due within 14 days of invoice. Account access is provisioned on receipt of payment.
All fees are exclusive of applicable taxes (VAT, sales tax, GST, or equivalent). Taxes will be added to invoices as required by the customer's jurisdiction.
Subscription fees are invoiced in US Dollars (USD).
Founding 25 status takes effect on the Activation Date. The first 30 days are your onboarding window, during which Performalise actively supports your team's adoption of Daily Scrum Space.
The activation criteria below describe the team behaviours we use to gauge healthy adoption. They are a goal we help you reach, not a contractual gate, and never a penalty during your paid contract term.
For Daily Scrum Space, healthy activation in the first 30 days looks like:
For Retrospective Space, Review Space, and Planning Space, activation criteria are defined per Space and shared at onboarding.
If a team does not reach the activation criteria within 30 days, the Performalise team will reach out to support adoption. Your access and your founder rate remain in place for the full contract minimum, regardless of usage, Performalise does not gate, suspend, or revoke service for inactivity during your paid contract term.
How activity matters later. Activity is not a condition during your contract minimum. It does become relevant after the contract minimum, at each annual renewal, see Section 10 for the active-at-renewal rule.
The founder rate is calibrated for healthy team sizes, typically 5 to 10 members. Fair use under the founder rate is 10 seats per team, counted as seats invited and accepted.
For companies with 2 founding teams, fair use applies to the average across both teams. For example:
| Team A | Team B | Average | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 10 | 10 | Within fair use |
| 12 | 8 | 10 | Within fair use |
| 11 | 11 | 11 | Buffer zone (allowed) |
| 14 | 8 | 11 | Buffer zone (allowed) |
| 12 | 12 | 12 | Exceeds buffer, conversation triggers |
A buffer of 1 seat above the limit is allowed without further action (so 11 seats in a single team, or an average of 11 across two founding teams, is within fair use).
If a team or company exceeds the buffer (12 seats in a team, or an average of 12 across two teams), Performalise will reach out to discuss options:
The intent is simple: founder pricing supports healthy team sizes, not unbounded expansion. We won't block you from adding a colleague, we'll have a conversation.
As a Founding 25 team, you receive:
In exchange for the founder rate and benefits, Founding 25 teams commit to:
Applications are submitted through the Founding 25 application form. Applications are reviewed in the order received. Performalise reserves the right to decline applications that do not fit the Founding 25 criteria.
Once 25 founding teams are confirmed, applications close. There is no waitlist for additional spots beyond the 25.
If a confirmed Founding 25 team withdraws before activation, Performalise may, at its discretion, offer the spot to a previously-declined applicant or close additional applications.
Performalise may, on the Daily Scrum Space launch event and in launch communications, publicly name founding teams who have confirmed in advance and consented to be named.
At the end of the contract minimum, the founder rate auto-continues at $29 per team per month for active Founding 25 teams, on the same annual upfront cadence. Performalise issues a renewal invoice 30 days before the start of each renewal period. There is no automatic price increase for active founder accounts.
The founder rate is unconditional during your contract minimum, your full 2 years on a 2-year founder agreement, or your full 1 year on the 1-year option. Activity is not a condition during the paid contract term.
After the contract minimum, founder-rate auto-continuation at each annual renewal requires an active account. For Daily Scrum Space, active means at least 8 standups completed in the prior 30 days (an average of roughly 2 per week). Active criteria for Retrospective Space, Review Space, and Planning Space are defined per Space and shared at onboarding.
If your account is inactive 60 days before the renewal date, Performalise will notify you in writing. You then have a 30-day cure window to re-establish active usage. If the account remains inactive at the renewal date, the renewal invoice will be issued at the then-current published standard rate (currently $79 per team per month) rather than the founder rate. Service continues uninterrupted, only the rate changes.
A team that loses founder-rate auto-continuation can return to the founder rate at any future renewal by becoming active again before that renewal date. The founder rate itself does not expire, only the right to auto-continue at it is conditional on activity.
Why we do this. The founder rate exists in exchange for an active partnership, feedback, case studies, energy. If a team has gone dark for 60+ days at renewal time, the partnership has paused. Truing up to the standard rate is fair to both sides, and the door back to the founder rate stays open as soon as the team re-engages.
1-year founder agreements transition to standard pricing at the end of year 1 by their original terms. The active-at-renewal rule applies only to 2-year founder agreements, at the year-2 → year-3 renewal and every annual renewal thereafter.
The founder rate may also end if:
The Founding 25 founder agreement is non-cancellable during the contract minimum. If the customer chooses to discontinue use before the end of the contract term, the remaining contract value is due. Annual upfront fees already paid are non-refundable.
Either party may terminate immediately if the other materially breaches these terms or the standard Terms of Service and (where remediable) fails to remedy within 30 days of written notice.
At the end of the contract minimum, either party may discontinue with 30 days' written notice before the end of the current annual period.
On termination, all licences end immediately. Customer data is available for export for 30 days, then deleted. No refund is due for prepaid subscription fees, except where Performalise has materially failed to provide the agreed Services.
These Founding 25 terms supplement Performalise's standard Terms of Service, Data Processing Agreement, and Privacy Policy, all of which apply to all Performalise customers.
Where these Founding 25 terms differ from the standard Terms of Service (for example, on price, contract minimum, or activation support), these Founding 25 terms prevail for the duration of the founder agreement. All other clauses of the standard Terms of Service continue to apply.
This founder agreement is governed by the laws of England and Wales. The courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction.
Submitting a Founding 25 application is acceptance of these terms, conditional on selection. If selected, you will receive a confirmation email containing the founder agreement, an invoice for the first annual period, and a link to schedule your founder kickoff call.
Questions before you apply, or about these terms? Contact contact_us@performalise.com.
Note on numbers and dates. The "Founding 25" cohort comprises a maximum of 25 customer teams. Spots are awarded on a first-come, reviewed-in-order basis. The cohort is closed for new applications once 25 teams are confirmed.