Service rate and follow-up supplement: When accepted in the portal, this supplement governs future rates, customer platform fees, non-exclusivity, and optional follow-up work. Previously accepted job terms remain unchanged.
Independent-contractor notice: Worker status depends on the actual relationship, not only this document. This agreement includes provisions intended to describe an independent-contractor relationship under Colorado law, including C.R.S. § 8-70-115, and requirements related to authorized motor-vehicle repair work.
1. Parties and effective date
This Independent Contractor Platform Agreement (“Agreement”) is between Mechanical Matt, LLC, a Colorado limited liability company (“Mechanical Matt,” “Platform,” “we,” or “us”), and the person or business accepting it (“Contractor,” “you,” or “your”). Your electronic acceptance is part of your application. This Agreement becomes effective when Mechanical Matt approves your application. Approval is discretionary and is not guaranteed.
2. Independent business relationship
You are an independently established repair business and not an employee, agent, partner, franchisee, or joint venturer of Mechanical Matt. You may advertise, serve other customers, work for competitors, and decide whether to accept each offered job. We do not guarantee any minimum number of offers, hours, territory, or earnings. Subject only to the agreed customer scope, safety requirements, applicable law, and documentation standards, you control the manner, means, methods, sequence, and details of performing accepted work. Mechanical Matt does not supervise or direct the day-to-day performance of your work. Nothing in this Agreement changes worker status if the actual relationship legally constitutes employment.
3. Colorado independent-contractor presumption factors
To support a rebuttable presumption of independent-contractor status under Colorado law (including C.R.S. § 8-70-115), the parties agree and represent that Mechanical Matt does not:
- Require you to work exclusively for Mechanical Matt, except that you may choose to work exclusively for Mechanical Matt for a finite period of time specified in a written document;
- Establish a quality standard for you beyond providing plans, specifications, customer scope, safety requirements, and documentation standards; Mechanical Matt does not oversee the actual work or instruct you as to how the work will be performed;
- Pay a salary or hourly rate; instead, payment is a fixed or contract rate (or other clearly stated job-specific terms) accepted by you for each job;
- Terminate an accepted job during its performance period unless you violate the terms of the job or this Agreement or fail to produce a result that meets the agreed specifications;
- Provide more than minimal training;
- Provide tools or benefits to you (except that materials or equipment may be supplied for a specific job when expressly agreed);
- Dictate the time of performance, except that a completion schedule and a range of mutually agreeable work hours may be established for a job;
- Pay you personally when you operate under a trade or business name; payments will be made to the trade or business name you designate; and
- Combine its business operations with your business; the parties maintain separate and distinct operations.
- REQUIRED COLORADO DISCLOSURE (please read carefully):
- THE INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR IS NOT ENTITLED TO UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BENEFITS UNLESS UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION COVERAGE IS PROVIDED BY THE INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR OR SOME OTHER ENTITY, AND THE INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR IS OBLIGATED TO PAY FEDERAL AND STATE INCOME TAX ON ANY MONEYS PAID PURSUANT TO THE CONTRACT RELATIONSHIP.
4. Job offers and acceptance
After approval for onboarding, you must complete your service profile, select capabilities and equipment separately, enter applicable rate expectations and limitations, provide required compliance records, and be activated before receiving matching invitations. Matching does not guarantee work or automatically assign a job.
Each job offer may state the general location, matched capability, requested scope, timing, your saved rate expectation, proposed payout (as a fixed or contract rate or other clearly stated terms), applicable minimums or service fees, job-specific adjustments, insurance deduction estimate if any, and other material terms. You may accept or decline any offer without penalty. Accepted terms are saved with the job; later profile-rate changes do not modify accepted or completed work. A claim is not final dispatch until Mechanical Matt confirms it. After confirmation, you will receive the customer contact and exact service location. Profile rates do not authorize a customer charge. Do not begin billable work, expand scope, purchase parts, or promise pricing without required Platform or customer authorization. Each accepted job is a separate limited engagement.
5. Qualifications, tools, and expenses
You represent that your selected capabilities, equipment checklist, availability, limitations, and related profile information are accurate and that you have the experience, legal authority, licenses or permits (if any), safe and reliable transportation, tools, diagnostic equipment, communications equipment, and protective equipment needed for each job you claim. Equipment ownership does not establish competence. You are responsible for your business expenses, fuel, maintenance, tools, assistants, permits, and taxes unless a job offer expressly states otherwise. You must decline work outside your qualifications or equipment capability. Mechanical Matt does not supply tools or more than minimal training as a condition of participation.
6. Insurance and workers’ compensation
Before any dispatch, you must provide current proof of insurance required by Mechanical Matt for the work offered, including applicable commercial general liability and automobile coverage. You must maintain workers’ compensation coverage or a legally valid rejection of coverage when Colorado law permits it, and provide verification (including any Rejection of Coverage filed with the Colorado Division of Workers’ Compensation) on request and before the first dispatch. Mechanical Matt may verify coverage status. If Mechanical Matt later offers job-specific or fractional coverage, it will be governed by a separate written disclosure. You authorize only the insurance deduction expressly displayed and accepted for that job; the availability of such coverage is not promised.
7. Taxes and business records
You are responsible for federal, state, and local taxes, registrations, filings, and self-employment obligations. You will provide a valid Form W-9 before payout and promptly update inaccurate information. Mechanical Matt may report payments on Form 1099-NEC or another required form. When you have a trade or business name, payments will be made to that name. You must retain accurate job and business records.
8. Service standards and safety
You will perform accepted services professionally, lawfully, and safely, consistent with the agreed customer scope, applicable law, and generally accepted repair practices reasonably applicable to the result required. Mechanical Matt and the customer provide plans, specifications, and scope; you control the methods, sequence, and means of achieving the accepted result. You will protect people, vehicles, property, and the environment; comply with hazardous-material and waste rules; use appropriate supports and protective equipment; and immediately stop and report unsafe conditions. You may refuse or stop work when conditions are unsafe or materially different from the offer without being required to risk injury.
9. Diagnostics, authorization, parts, documentation, and Motor Vehicle Repair Act compliance
You will document arrival, vehicle condition, diagnostic findings, trouble codes, measurements, recommendations, parts, work performed, and completion using the Platform’s required fields and photographs. Findings must distinguish confirmed faults from recommendations or possibilities. Customer authorization and required deposits or payment authorization must be recorded before parts are ordered or additional work begins. Parts must not be substituted without approval. All documentation must be truthful, timely, and sufficient for customer review, quality assurance, warranty administration, and payment.
For work subject to the Colorado Motor Vehicle Repair Act (C.R.S. Title 42, Article 9), each party must comply with the obligations that legally apply to it. To the extent you qualify as a motor vehicle repair facility or perform duties on behalf of one, you must obtain or confirm the required customer consent and estimate, including an expected completion date when required; record any further authorization required for additional work or charges exceeding applicable limits; and provide complete, timely information needed for a compliant invoice. That information includes the repairs and stage of repair you performed, your full name or assigned repairer number, labor, parts installed, vehicle condition and mileage, dates, warranties, subcontracted work, and other required details. You must preserve and promptly provide work orders, estimates, authorizations, photographs, and repair records through the Platform so that legally required records can be retained for at least three years. You must not begin billable repairs or order parts without the required authorization recorded through the Platform, charge for unauthorized work, or make a representation prohibited by the Act. Platform tools support these obligations but do not replace either party’s independent duty to comply with applicable law.
10. Customer communications and payments
You will communicate respectfully, protect customer property, and avoid promises inconsistent with approved scope or pricing. The original Platform-sourced transaction—including its authorized scope, deposits, payments, documentation, warranties, disputes, and existing obligations—must remain processed or recorded through Mechanical Matt unless we authorize otherwise in writing. You may not divert, conceal, or collect off-platform payment for that original transaction.
After the original Platform transaction is completed, you and the customer may conduct future work directly or voluntarily bring a new transaction back to Mechanical Matt. Mechanical Matt is not a party to future direct work and does not provide its platform tools, payment processing, estimate or authorization records, warranty administration, customer-history records, chargeback assistance, or dispute support for that work. Customer information may not be harvested, sold, or used before a legitimate confirmed assignment.
11. Payouts, deductions, and disputes
Your payout is governed by the written terms you accept for each job and is stated as a fixed or contract rate or other clearly disclosed job-specific terms (which may include a percentage of a defined amount when expressly stated). No deduction may be taken unless permitted by law and disclosed in the applicable job terms or separately authorized by you. Potential deductions may include accepted job-specific insurance, customer refunds attributable to your documented error, unauthorized purchases, or agreed chargebacks. Mechanical Matt may temporarily hold a genuinely disputed amount while investigating, but will provide the reason and available records. Undisputed earned amounts will be paid under the then-current payout schedule disclosed to you. When you have designated a trade or business name, payments will be directed to that name.
12. Quality, callbacks, and property damage
You are responsible for correcting, at your expense, workmanship that materially fails the accepted scope or applicable professional standard, unless the issue results from a declined recommendation, customer-supplied part, preexisting condition, unrelated failure, or an approved scope limitation. Report accidents, damage, injuries, comebacks, complaints, and suspected fraud immediately. Do not admit liability or promise reimbursement without authorization, except to obtain emergency assistance.
13. Assistants and subcontracting
You may not send an unapproved substitute or assistant to customer property. Any approved helper remains under your direction and responsibility and must satisfy applicable identity, qualification, insurance, confidentiality, and legal requirements. Approval of a helper does not make that person a Mechanical Matt employee.
14. Confidentiality, privacy, and platform data
Customer contact information, addresses, vehicle data, access instructions, pricing, and nonpublic Platform information are confidential and may be used only to perform authorized work, handle a claim, or comply with law. You must use reasonable security, avoid unnecessary copying, and promptly report loss or unauthorized disclosure. Mechanical Matt may retain application, location, message, photo, diagnostic, transaction, and performance records for operations, safety, payment, compliance, and dispute resolution, subject to applicable law.
15. Conduct and platform access
You must not engage in discrimination, harassment, threats, theft, intoxicated work, falsification, unsafe conduct, unauthorized vehicle use, or unlawful activity. Mechanical Matt may pause offers or suspend access while investigating safety, fraud, insurance, customer-protection, or documentation concerns. Either party may end participation at any time, subject to completing or safely transferring accepted work and resolving earned payments, customer property, confidential information, claims, and surviving obligations. Suspension of future offers does not terminate an already-accepted job except for the reasons permitted in Section 3.
16. Responsibility and indemnification
Each party is responsible for its own negligence, willful misconduct, legal violations, and contractual breaches. To the extent permitted by law, you will defend and indemnify Mechanical Matt and its owners from third-party claims caused by your negligence, willful misconduct, unlawful acts, or material breach; Mechanical Matt will do the same for third-party claims caused by its negligence, willful misconduct, unlawful acts, or material breach. This section does not require either party to indemnify the other for the other party’s own fault.
17. Disputes and governing law
The parties will first attempt in good faith to resolve a dispute through written notice and exchange of relevant records. Colorado law governs this Agreement, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Unless the parties later agree to another lawful process, any court proceeding will be brought in a court with jurisdiction in Garfield County, Colorado. Nothing here prevents either party from reporting a safety, insurance, wage, classification, tax, or legal concern to a government agency.
18. Electronic records; changes; general terms
You consent to electronic agreements, notices, job terms, and records. Your account credentials and electronic acceptance may be used as evidence of assent. The version accepted with your application remains available for your records. Material changes require new notice and acceptance before they apply prospectively. If a provision is unenforceable, the remainder survives. This Agreement and accepted job-specific terms form the agreement concerning Platform work; job-specific terms control only for that job when they expressly conflict. Sections concerning payment, records, confidentiality, claims, responsibility, disputes, the Colorado independent-contractor factors and disclosure, Motor Vehicle Repair Act compliance, and completed work survive termination.
19. Acknowledgment
By checking the acceptance box and submitting your application, you confirm that you had the opportunity to read this Agreement (including the Colorado independent-contractor presumption factors and required disclosure in Section 3 and the Motor Vehicle Repair Act compliance provisions in Section 9), save or print it, ask questions, and seek independent legal, tax, and insurance advice; that the application information is accurate; and that you agree to the Pilot Version identified above.