C01.02

Who may speak for Maverick

The legal briefing plus the rule: capture is not consent. Every department sends texts.

Watch the Project Structure legal briefing
Name what counts as a written commitment
Refuse a verbal extra and a substitution-on-Friday

Project Structure — legal briefing

Maverick Project Structure Training Course — Legal.mp4 · 38 min

Required once. Office, sales, field, and crew. Then this lesson is the translation.

Capture vs commit

You may	You may not
Acknowledge receipt and log it	Approve a substitution
Route to estimating / Eric	Cut price or waive retainage
Put a time on the follow-up	Start extra work on a verbal
Stop an application for dew point / spec conflict	Guess chemistry on the phone

Paid-if-Paid

Forbidden effective 2026-06-25. It makes our pay contingent on the owner paying the GC. Escalate the 2.14.4 sequence. Do not sign. Do not email the protocol to a GC. Sales does not waive it to win a job. Crew does not 'work it out in the field.'

Not this
Yes, we can swap the topcoat — thanks for the heads up.
This
Logged as a substitution request, not an approval. Do not purchase. Written answer by [time].
Not this
Texts don't count.
This
Texts are exhibits. Write like they will be read in a room with a lawyer.

Takeaways

Emails, texts, and minutes that sound like a promise are evidence.
Only written authority binds price, system, or schedule.
Paid-if-Paid is forbidden. Not a sales chip. Not a 'GC standard.'

SOPSOP Section 2.14.4 — Paid-if-Paid SOP Section 4 — Administrative Staff