The work is in Jira. The agreement is somewhere else.
Tickets show activity, but they do not show what the parties originally agreed would count as done. The SoW is no longer the reference when delivery starts.
For Indian dev shops working with US clients
The SoW stops mattering the moment it’s signed. Worql keeps delivery tied to it.
After the SoW is signed, delivery moves into Slack and Jira. Worql keeps the agreement connected to that work: deliverables carry acceptance criteria, milestones map to acceptance and payment events, and your client accepts each milestone against those same criteria.
Delivery-risk check: scope, acceptance, change control, payment, IP, data, disputes · Informational, not legal advice
WQ · SAMPLE CORRIDOR CHARTILLUSTRATIVE
WQ · SAMPLE DELIVERY LEDGERILLUSTRATIVE
- 2FA enforced on loginPR #128 · 14 files · criteria metCHECKED
- Payments idempotent on retryPR #131 · 9 files · criteria metCHECKED
- Webhook signatures verifiedPR #134 · 6 files · criteria metCHECKED
- Exports scoped to RBACPR #137 · open · under reviewIN REVIEW
WQ-SAMPLE-2026-017 · ILLUSTRATIVESAMPLE SIGN-OFF
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The delivery gap
A delivery problem becomes a collection problem.
The milestone is delivered. The client says it is not what they asked for.
The invoice sits while both sides argue over the same tickets. Without shared acceptance criteria, there is no neutral reference point, and the side with cash reserves has more time to wait.
A status update is not client sign-off.
A client view that carries the same criteria gives each milestone a shared sign-off surface instead of another private status update or a new interpretation of “done.”
Mechanism
The document does not disappear after signature.
01
Before signature
Turn the brief into deliverables with acceptance criteria
Worql assembles the SoW from the brief, with acceptance criteria attached to each deliverable rather than left as a separate checklist.
02
Before signature
Map milestones to acceptance and payment events
The SoW connects the deliverables, the milestone, the acceptance event, and the payment event in the same engagement record.
03
During delivery
Let the client accept against those same criteria
When work is ready, the client sees the milestone and its acceptance criteria in their own view and records their sign-off against the shared definition.
Mechanism · client sign-off
The SoW is set up once. The same criteria meet delivery.
When a milestone is ready, the client sees delivery evidence alongside the acceptance criteria attached to that deliverable. They accept the milestone in their own view, against the same definition that was set in the SoW.
Acceptance criteria stay attached
The acceptance criteria created with each deliverable travel into the milestone. The team and client do not need to recreate the definition of done in a separate tracker.
DeliverableAcceptance criteriaMilestone
The client gets their own sign-off view
The client can read the milestone, review the supporting delivery evidence, and accept it against the criteria already attached to the work.
Client viewDelivery evidenceSign-off
Delivery events stay with the engagement
The engagement record keeps the SoW, milestones, acceptance events, and their delivery evidence together. It records the process; it does not decide whether either party is right.
SoWAcceptance eventsEvidence, not a verdict
Mechanism · sample SoW
See the shared delivery terms in a full sample SoW.
WorqlSoW No. WQ-SAMPLE-2026-017
Statement of Work — Payments Platform Build
Between [Client, Inc.] (Delaware C-corp, the “Client”) and [Vendor Technologies Pvt. Ltd.] (Bengaluru, the “Vendor”). Effective date: [Effective Date].
1 · Scope of work
Vendor will design, build, and deliver the Client’s payments platform — a full-stack payments orchestration system — to production. Coverage spans merchant onboarding, payment orchestration, ledger and reconciliation, disputes, and the merchant dashboard.
2· Milestones & payment
Total fixed fee: USD 742,500, billed against eight milestones. Each milestone unlocks on a reviewable artifact — a working staging URL, a passing audit dossier, an attestation report, or a merged PR set tagged for acceptance. “Done” without an artifact is not a billable state.
Full document · 9 sections · IP assignment · SIAC · FEMARead the full sample SoW
The corridor
Clause categories for a US–India software engagement.
The clause library sets out the categories that belong in the same cross-border agreement, alongside the scope and acceptance criteria.
Scope, IP, payment, and confidentiality
The agreement starts with what is being delivered, the IP-assignment terms, payment terms, and the information each party needs to keep confidential.
Scope of workIP assignmentPayment termsConfidentiality
Data, personnel, warranties, and compliance
The clause library also covers data protection, the people working on the engagement, warranties, limitation of liability, and the relevant compliance terms.
Data protectionPersonnelWarrantiesCompliance
Ending the engagement and resolving disputes
Termination, dispute resolution, force majeure, governing law, and boilerplate all stay in the same document rather than being left to an email thread.
TerminationDispute resolutionGoverning lawBoilerplate
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