Terms of Service

Last updated: 12 August 2026

1. Who we are

The Borderlands Group, Inc. (“Borderlands”, “we”, “us”) is a company incorporated in the District of Columbia, United States, operating from Kyiv, Ukraine and Washington, D.C. You can reach us at [email protected].

2. What these terms cover

These terms apply to your use of this website and to the professional services we provide — principally the Ukraine Readiness Assessment and any advisory engagement that follows it. Where we sign a separate written agreement with you, that agreement takes precedence over these terms to the extent the two conflict.

Nothing on this website is an offer to enter into an engagement. An engagement begins only when both sides have agreed it in writing.

3. The Ukraine Readiness Assessment

The assessment is a structured evaluation delivered over three calls: a product and technical review with your engineering team, a team and readiness review against the 10 Rules, and a decision call with our CEO.

You receive:

• A written Ukraine Readiness Report covering product, team, and readiness scoring
• A written recommendation regarding a prospective engagement
• A clear decision on whether, and how, to proceed

The assessment is an opinion based on the information you give us and on our own experience. It is not an audit, a certification, or a warranty of any kind. We may conclude that we are not the right company for you, or that you are not ready for Ukraine. That is a legitimate outcome of the process, not a failure to deliver it.

Scheduling begins within one business day of confirmation. Calls are arranged at mutual convenience, and completing all three depends on your availability as much as ours.

4. Fees and payment

The assessment fee is fixed and is stated to you in writing before you pay it. Payment is taken by card through Stripe, our payment processor. We do not receive or store your card details.

The assessment fee is not refundable. It pays for the time of the people who carry it out, and that time is spent whichever way the conclusion goes — including a conclusion that we should not work together, which is a legitimate outcome of the assessment rather than a failure to deliver it.

The fee is, however, credited in full against your first invoice if we go on to work together. That credit is not conditional on starting straight away: if you take the report, act on it, and come back to us later, it still stands.

Fees for ongoing engagements are agreed separately in writing. Unless we agree otherwise, fees are exclusive of tax, and of travel and in-country costs.

5. Your responsibilities

The assessment depends on what you tell us. You agree that the information and materials you provide are accurate and complete so far as you know, that you are entitled to share them with us, and that doing so does not breach any obligation you owe to someone else.

If we discover that stated claims cannot be substantiated, we will say so in the report. That is part of what the assessment is for.

6. Confidentiality

All company materials you share with us are held in confidence. We do not disclose them to third parties without your permission, except where we are required to by law.

The same obligation runs the other way. Our report, our recommendations, our methodology, and any information we share about our network, our clients, or our pricing are confidential to you and should not be circulated outside your organisation without our permission.

We do not name our clients publicly. Where we describe results, companies are anonymised by category.

7. Intellectual property

You keep all rights in the materials you give us. We keep all rights in our methodology, frameworks, and the 10 Rules.

On payment, you receive the Ukraine Readiness Report for your own internal use, including sharing it with your board and your investors. It may not be published, resold, or used in marketing without our written permission.

The content of this website — text, layout, and imagery — belongs to us or to our licensors.

8. No guarantee of outcomes

We do not guarantee any particular result. We do not guarantee that a Ukrainian unit will want your product, that funding will follow, that a contract will be awarded, or that you will raise capital. Outcomes vary with the product, its performance in the field, and demand at the time.

Figures described elsewhere on this site are past results achieved by other clients in their own circumstances. They are not a forecast of what you should expect.

9. Export control, sanctions and lawful conduct

We provide advisory services. We are not a broker or dealer in defence articles or defence services, and nothing we do relieves you of your own obligations under export control and sanctions law — including, as applicable, the US International Traffic in Arms Regulations, the Export Administration Regulations, and the export control regimes of your own country and of Ukraine.

You remain responsible for obtaining any licence, authorisation, or registration your activities require. You confirm that neither you nor your company is subject to sanctions, and that you will not ask us to do anything that would put either of us in breach of applicable law.

We may decline or end an engagement, without liability, where we believe proceeding would be unlawful or would place people at unacceptable risk.

10. Travel and safety

Ukraine is an active war zone. Where we coordinate travel, access, transport, interpretation, or introductions, we do so with care and with local knowledge, but we cannot eliminate risk. You travel at your own risk and are responsible for your own insurance, and for complying with your government's travel guidance and with Ukrainian law.

11. No legal, investment or tax advice

We are not lawyers, investment advisers, or accountants. Nothing we provide is legal, investment, or tax advice, and it should not be relied on as a substitute for professional advice from someone qualified to give it.

12. Limitation of liability

Nothing in these terms limits liability for fraud, for fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be limited.

Subject to that, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, for lost profits, lost contracts, lost funding, or loss of anticipated savings. Our total liability arising out of or in connection with the services is limited to the fees you have paid us in the twelve months before the claim arose.

13. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. The version in force is the one published here on the date you engage us, and we will tell you if we change them materially during an engagement.

14. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the District of Columbia, United States, and the courts of that jurisdiction have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute.

15. Contact

Questions about these terms: [email protected].

The Borderlands Group, Inc.
1101 3rd St SW, Ste 506
Washington, DC 20024
United States

These terms are a plain-language draft prepared for review. They have not yet been settled by counsel and should be treated as a working document until they have.