The agreement between People Purpose Corporation and the company that buys Quadrant. Effective 8 August 2026.
This is a draft prepared for review by a lawyer. It has not been reviewed by one yet. It was written to describe what the software actually does today, so that counsel is correcting a true document rather than drafting from a blank page. Sections 14, 15 and 16 — limitation of liability, indemnity and insurance — are the ones that most need legal review, and they are marked.
Where a fact is not yet settled, this document says so instead of guessing. Anything shown like [[THIS]] is a blank waiting to be filled.
What's in here
This agreement is between People Purpose Corporation, a corporation incorporated in Manitoba, Canada, which operates Quadrant at disc-quadrant.com ("we", "us", "People Purpose"), and the company that opened the Quadrant account ("you", "the Client").
It applies from the moment you create an account, whether or not you have paid us anything yet.
Our address for notices is 7 Fox Run, Kleefeld MB, R0A 0V2, Canada. Our email is rod@people-purpose.com. Quadrant is run by one person, Rod Penner. That is not a disclaimer, it is a fact you should price into what you expect from us, and this document is written so you know exactly what that is.
This agreement covers the Client only. Two other relationships exist and are governed elsewhere:
Quadrant is web software you use to:
It is delivered as a service over the internet. There is nothing to install. Your company gets its own area of the system, and the people you invite in get logins.
What the assessment is not. It is not a medical, clinical or diagnostic instrument, and it is not an intelligence or aptitude test. It describes how a person tends to work and communicate. It does not measure whether someone can do a job. The instrument is grounded in the established DISC framework, and it has not been through formal validation studies. We say that plainly on the methodology page and we say it here, because you are buying it on that basis.
You are the employer. You make every decision about a person. We do not, and the software does not.
Quadrant does not screen anyone out. It does not reject anyone. It does not decide who is suitable for a job, and it does not predict how anyone will perform. It gathers information and shows it to you so you can ask better questions and run a more consistent process. Every decision to interview, hire, not hire, promote, discipline, transfer or dismiss is yours alone.
You agree that no output of Quadrant will ever be the sole or determinative basis for a decision about a person. Not the DISC profile, not the character measures, not the fit number, not the skills number, not the screening flags, not anything Claude wrote inside the product. Each of those is one input among skills, experience, references, interviews and your own judgement. This is a term of this agreement, not advice. If you use Quadrant any other way, you are outside this agreement.
The same rule applies to your existing people. An alignment read, a review scorecard or a style mismatch is a conversation to have, not a verdict, and it is not on its own a ground for discipline or dismissal.
You agree to all of the following, for as long as you use Quadrant.
You will comply with the employment standards, human rights, accessibility and privacy law that applies to you, in every province where you employ people or advertise work. We sell in Manitoba, Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan. The law is not identical in those five places and Quadrant does not vary its behaviour by province.
Quebec is not a target market and Quadrant is not offered there. We have not built or tested for Quebec's Law 25 and we do not claim to meet it. If you employ people in Quebec, do not put them in Quadrant without getting your own advice first.
Quadrant lets you set behavioural targets on a role and compare people to them. You choose those targets and you are the one who has to be able to justify them as genuinely related to the job. We do not know your work. We do not review your targets, and we do not vouch for them. If a requirement you set cannot be defended as connected to the actual duties of the seat, that is your exposure, not ours.
The application-received email and the interview emails Quadrant sends carry a notice telling the person that they can ask for the assessment in another format, for more time, or for any other adjustment. There is no time limit on the assessment and nothing cuts anyone off; we do record how long a person took, and it is not part of any score. That notice points at jobs@disc-quadrant.com, which is our mailbox, not yours. We will pass any accommodation request we receive on to you, and you are the one who has to arrange it. The duty to accommodate is yours as the employer. You also agree to honour requests that come to you directly and never to treat a request as a reason to stop considering someone.
Quadrant does not insert legal notices into your job postings, and this is deliberate. The software cannot know your headcount, where the work is performed, or which of its features you have switched on for a given role, and a wrong statutory notice is worse than none. Ontario's Employment Standards Act Part III.1, in force since 1 January 2026, requires employers of 25 or more to disclose in a publicly advertised posting if artificial intelligence is used to screen, assess or select applicants, and imposes record-keeping and post-interview notification duties. Similar duties may arrive elsewhere. Working out whether those rules apply to you, and writing the sentence, is your job. Section 5 tells you which parts of Quadrant use AI so that you can write it accurately.
You are the organisation that decides why your applicants' and employees' information is collected and what it is used for. We process it for you. That means the duty to give notice and, where the law requires it, to obtain consent, sits with you. In particular:
You choose who you invite and what role you give them. Note that the read-only "viewer" role can open a person's full narrative report, their scores, their candour flags and their email address. If that is more than you want someone to see, do not give them that role. You are responsible for what your people do with their logins, for removing people who leave, and for keeping passwords out of shared inboxes.
Two numbers in Quadrant look like scores and get treated like scores. Here is exactly what each one is, so you can decide how much weight to give it — which, per section 3, is never all of it.
The fit number. Plain arithmetic, no AI. It compares a person's DISC percentages and five character measures against the targets you set on the role, and returns 0 to 100. Exceeding a target is free; only falling short costs points. It has not been validated, and no adverse-impact study has been run on it. Our own source code says so in a comment. Treat it as a way of ordering a long list for a human to read, not as a measure of who is better. It appears on your list of applicants and nowhere else: the interview guide, the page one of your people opens with one named candidate in front of them, is not given the number at all — our server strips it out before the response leaves us, and that page shows the per-measure comparison instead.
The skills number. Produced by Anthropic's Claude, which is given the resume and the job description and asked for a 0-to-100 number and a short read. It is stored on the application record. It is a language model's opinion about a document, not a measurement of a person. Same rule: one input, never the decision.
Screening flags are worked out from the person's own answers to the questions you set. They are notes for a human. Nothing in Quadrant rejects anyone because of a flag, and the application form tells applicants so.
Where AI is used. Anthropic's Claude drafts job descriptions, interview kits, candidate reads, review summaries, alignment reads and the in-app assistant, and it produces the skills number. To do that, the information involved — which can include a person's name, their resume, their job description, their assessment scores and interview transcripts you paste in — is sent to Anthropic for processing. The DISC and character scores themselves are calculated by our own code, not by AI.
Quadrant sends email to your applicants and your employees in your name and about your roles. You should know which of it is automatic.
For your applicants and your employees, you decide what is collected and why, and we handle it on your behalf. In plain terms: it is your data about your people, held in our system, and we do not use it for our own purposes except to run and fix the service.
How that separation is enforced, honestly. It is enforced in our application code, which filters every read and write to your company's id. It is not enforced by the database itself. That is a real distinction and a careful buyer's IT lead will ask about it, so it is written here rather than left to be discovered.
We use these services, and information passes through them:
We have not yet published which countries each of these stores data in, and we will not guess. Confirming the storage regions, and putting written data processing terms in place with each of them, is outstanding work. Ask us before you sign and we will tell you where it stands on the day you ask.
There is no retention schedule and nothing expires on its own. No part of Quadrant deletes personal information because it has got old. Records stay until someone deletes them.
Deletion is available and it is immediate and permanent when it runs: your owner or admin can delete a candidate, a person, an assessment or a whole team member's record, and there is no undo and no backup we will restore from on request. Two honest limits:
Building a retention schedule and a proper erasure path is on our list and it is not built. If you have a records retention obligation of your own — and in employment you usually do — you should assume Quadrant will keep things until you tell it not to, and set your own reminders.
If one of your applicants or employees asks us for a copy of what we hold, or asks us to correct or delete it, we will pass the request to you and work with you to answer it. There is no self-serve export or self-serve deletion in the product. It is a manual process handled from privacy@disc-quadrant.com. A person with a Quadrant login can see their own profile summary, their job description and their course progress at any time; they cannot see their raw answers, their manager's notes, or the reads written about them.
If we become aware of a breach of security safeguards affecting your data, we will tell you without unreasonable delay and give you what we know, so that you can meet your own reporting duties. We do not have a formal incident response programme, an on-call rotation, or a security certification, and we do not claim one.
We designed a shared talent pool across the companies hiring on Quadrant. It is not running. The job that would copy people out of a company's account stops at its first line unless a server switch is set on, and it is not on. Do not buy Quadrant for the talent network. If it is ever switched on, it will be on terms you agree to first, not by us flipping a switch.
Two things you should still know:
We do not sell your data, and we do not offer your staff to other employers.
$30 per month, plus $7 per month for each person on your roster. Canadian dollars. Annual billing is ten months for twelve: $300 a year plus $70 a year per person.
Your roster count is recounted every day and your subscription quantity is set to match, so you start paying for someone the day they join the team and stop the day they are removed. If we cannot read your roster on a given day, we leave the subscription alone rather than guess at a number.
Trial. New accounts get a 14-day free trial. A card is required to start it, and the trial is applied once, on your first subscription. Cancel before it ends and you pay nothing.
Billing. Payment is by card through Stripe. Charges are monthly or annual in advance from the date you subscribe. We do not store your card details and we cannot see them.
Failed payment. If a payment fails your account is marked past due and keeps working while Stripe retries. If the subscription ends up cancelled or unpaid, access to the product stops — except the billing screen, so the owner can restart it without calling anyone.
Cancelling. Your owner or admin cancels from the billing screen in the dashboard, through Stripe's own portal. No phone call, no notice period, no cancellation fee. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the period you have already paid for. We do not refund the unused part of a period unless we have got something wrong, in which case ask and we will sort it out.
What happens to your data after you cancel. Your account is locked, not emptied. Nothing is deleted automatically — see section 7.3, that is true here too. Tell us in writing that you want your data deleted and we will delete it, including the uploaded files that the in-product delete does not reach, and confirm when it is done. Until you ask, it stays. There is no automated export today, so if you want a copy of anything, ask for it before you cancel and we will get it to you.
Short list, on purpose. Everything on it is something one person can actually keep.
The service is provided as it is. To the extent the law lets us, we exclude all warranties, express or implied, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. Specifically, and so there is no room for misunderstanding:
You will not:
If you break this section we can suspend the account. If it is serious or repeated, we can end this agreement under section 19.
These are drafted for a sole operator with no insurance representation and no external capital. The cap is deliberately low and the carve-outs deliberately narrow. Both the amount of the cap and whether Manitoba law permits each exclusion need a lawyer's eye. The interaction between the cap in 14.2 and the indemnity in 15 also needs checking, so a claim by a third party cannot arrive through the door the cap was meant to close.
14.1 Neither party is liable to the other for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, punitive or exemplary damages, or for lost profits, lost revenue, lost business opportunity, lost goodwill or the cost of substitute services, even if it was told those losses were possible.
14.2 Our total liability to you for all claims arising out of or relating to this agreement or to Quadrant, however arising and whether in contract, tort, negligence, statute or otherwise, is limited in aggregate to the total fees you actually paid us in the twelve months immediately before the event giving rise to the first such claim.
14.3 We are not liable for any employment decision you make, for the consequences of any such decision, or for any claim, complaint, application or proceeding brought against you by an applicant, an employee, a former employee, a union or a human rights or employment standards body. That risk belongs to the employer. It is the reason section 3 exists.
14.4 Nothing in this section limits liability that cannot be limited under Manitoba law, or liability for fraud.
15.1 You will defend, indemnify and hold us harmless from any claim, demand, proceeding, loss, fine or expense (including reasonable legal costs) brought by a third party and arising from:
15.2 We will defend, indemnify and hold you harmless from any third-party claim that Quadrant, as we supplied it, infringes that third party's Canadian copyright or trade-mark — subject to the cap in section 14.2.
15.3 The party seeking indemnity must notify the other promptly, let it control the defence, and cooperate. No settlement that admits fault or imposes an obligation on the other party without its written consent.
We make no representation that we carry insurance of any kind. If your procurement process requires a certificate of insurance from a vendor, ask before you sign, and we will tell you what is and is not in place. [[INSURANCE POSITION — ROD TO CONFIRM]]
Your data is yours. Everything you and your people put into Quadrant, and everything Quadrant generates about your people — profiles, reports, notes, scorecards, job descriptions — belongs to you. You grant us the right to store, process and transmit it for the purpose of running the service for you, including sending it to the companies in section 7.2 that make the service work.
Quadrant is ours. The software, the assessment items, the scoring, the report library and everything else that makes up the product belongs to People Purpose. Using the service does not transfer any of it to you. Reports you generate are yours to use inside your business however you like.
Aggregate and de-identified information. We reserve the right to use information that has been stripped of names, contact details and anything that identifies a person or your company, in order to check the instrument for accuracy and fairness, to improve the product, and to publish general statistics. We will not publish anything that identifies you or any individual. Counsel: the scope of this reservation should be reviewed against PIPEDA, and against what a 200-person buyer will accept in diligence.
Feedback. If you tell us how to make the product better, we can use it, with no obligation to you.
Quadrant changes constantly and most changes are improvements you will not need warning about. But:
You can cancel at any time under section 10. We can end this agreement:
When this agreement ends, your right to use Quadrant ends. Sections 7, 12, 14, 15, 17, 20 and 21 survive.
This agreement is governed by the laws of the Province of Manitoba and the laws of Canada that apply in it. The courts of Manitoba have exclusive jurisdiction, and both parties agree to that venue. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.
Notices to us: rod@people-purpose.com, or by mail to 7 Fox Run, Kleefeld MB, R0A 0V2, Canada. Notices to you: the email address of your account owner. It is your job to keep that address current.
Whole agreement. This document, plus the assessment privacy and fair use page, is the whole agreement between us about Quadrant, and it replaces anything said in a demo, an email or a proposal.
Assignment. Neither party may assign this agreement without the other's written consent, except that either may assign it to a buyer of substantially all of its business on written notice.
No partnership. We are independent contractors to one another. Nothing here makes either of us the other's agent, partner, employer or joint employer.
Severability. If a court finds any part of this unenforceable, the rest stands.
No waiver. If we do not enforce something once, we have not given it up.
Force majeure. Neither party is liable for a failure caused by something genuinely outside its control. This does not excuse paying money you owe.
Language. The parties have required that this agreement be drawn up in English. Les parties ont exigé que la présente convention soit rédigée en anglais.
This draft is knowingly incomplete in the following places, and each one is waiting on a fact rather than on drafting:
Quadrant is operated by People Purpose Corporation, Manitoba, Canada. See also how the assessment works and how to use it well and the assessment privacy and fair use page.