The deal, in writing
The term sheet is your representative's deal.
You have an audience. A vetted builder will build you a real, monetizable app and keep it running — and you'll share the revenue. WantBorn is on your side in that deal: we find and vet the builder, negotiate the split for you, put it in writing, and stay in the room afterwards. This page is that deal in plain English. The full template is one print page you can save as a PDF.
Template, not legal advice. All amounts, percentages, and durations are illustrative seed values set per partnership. Have it reviewed by your own counsel before signing.
What's in it — and why it protects you
Six things every creator should care about. The full template spells out parties, scope, IP, brand use, the rev-split, responsibilities, confidentiality, and governing law — but these are the clauses that decide whether the deal is fair.
You keep your audience and your brand
Your name, likeness, and audience relationship are never assigned — they're licensed to the app for the term, for the app only, and revert to you the moment the deal ends. The split is yours to keep too: a fair share of net revenue, negotiated up from the builder's first offer by someone on your side.
The builder owns the code — clearly, in writing, before day one
No ambiguity later about who owns what. The builder owns the app source and IP they create; you own everything that makes it yours. It's written down before a line of code is shipped, so there's nothing to fight about after it works.
“Launched” is defined so nobody can move the goalposts
The split and the fee both turn on the app being launched — so we pin down exactly what that means: publicly available to your audience, able to take money end-to-end, with the build and revenue access handed over. Until all three are true, it isn't launched and no fee is due.
If the builder stalls, we find you another one
The graceful-exit and replacement-builder clause is the part that makes “we're on your side” real. If the build stalls or the builder goes quiet, we work to re-broker the partnership with a vetted builder from the bench — for founding creators, that's a guarantee. You don't end up holding a dead project.
You pay nothing — ever
Creators never pay WantBorn. The builder pays a one-time success fee, and only on a real, launched app. Think of it as your representative's contingency fee: paid by the abundant side, earned only when the deal actually works.
Rails-agnostic settlement
RevenueCat is the default and every app we broker ships on RC rails, but the term sheet works the same over Stripe, Paddle, or store-direct. We don't hold or move your money — settlement happens on whichever rail the partnership chooses.
Why your agent stays in the room
A neutral marketplace introduces two strangers and skims a toll, then disappears — which is exactly why people route around it. WantBorn isn't neutral. We're the party whose only job is your side of a deal with a builder you don't yet know. We negotiate the split up from the builder's first offer, catch an unfair IP or brand-use clause before you sign it, keep the settlement record honest, and chase the builder if things go sideways. That's work that compounds over the relationship — and why you'd want us in the room, not out of it.
The success fee is the contingency we earn for winning you a good deal and protecting your downside. You never pay it — the builder does, and only on a real, launched app.
Ready to see what your deal could look like?
Post a brief — no account, no cost. We read every one by hand, and we'll put a term sheet like this in front of you and a vetted builder.