Last Updated: May 1, 2026
These Terms of Use ("Terms") govern your use of klim.expert (the "Site") and any services I, Dmytro Klymentiev, doing business as Klim Expert, provide through it. By using this site, submitting the contact form, or engaging me for paid work, you accept these terms.
This is not a software product with a click-through licence — it is a one-person consulting practice. Most actual rights and obligations between us in a paid engagement live in the engagement letter or statement of work I send you separately. These Terms cover the public-facing site and the contact-form interaction that precedes any engagement.
About me
- Name: Dmytro Klymentiev
- Doing business as: Klim Expert
- Location: Chicago, IL 60640, United States
- Email: hello@klim.expert
- Phone: +1 (312) 735-4185
What this site is
A description of the consulting services I offer, examples of past work, articles I write, and a contact form so you can reach me. The site does not sell anything online and does not host paid downloads, courses, subscriptions, or accounts.
Use of the site
You can read everything on this site for personal and business research. You may quote short excerpts of my writing with attribution and a link back. You may not:
- Republish full articles without my written permission.
- Use my content to train AI models or build derivative datasets.
- Scrape or systematically harvest the site at speed beyond ordinary reading.
- Copy the case studies and reuse them as your own portfolio.
- Misrepresent yourself as me, my client, or my agent.
Free first version (the "free first version" promise)
Service pages on this site mention a "free first version" of work I do for new clients. Here is what that actually means, in plain terms:
- It applies after a discovery conversation in which we mutually agree the project is a fit.
- The scope is a tightly defined first deliverable — typically a working prototype, a small integration, or a focused proof-of-concept — that takes me roughly up to 40 hours of my time.
- You own everything I produce in that window: code, configuration, scripts, documentation. No claim, no holdback, no licence trap.
- It is not unlimited consulting. It is not the same as the full engagement that may follow.
- I reserve the right to decline or scope-down if a request grows past that boundary, before any work begins.
I describe it that way because the alternative — listing every edge case in an FAQ — defeats the point of the offer, which is mutual signal-finding before either of us commits to a longer engagement.
Paid engagements
If we agree to a paid engagement, the specific scope, deliverables, IP terms, payment terms, and dispute resolution will be set out in a separate written agreement (a statement of work, master services agreement, or equivalent). That document overrides anything on this page that conflicts with it.
In the absence of a separate agreement covering a specific term, the following defaults apply to any paid work:
- Code ownership: you own the code I deliver. I retain the right to use the methods, patterns, and any portfolio mention (anonymised by default) for my own future practice and writing.
- Confidentiality: I treat your business as confidential. Mutual NDAs are easy to set up and I sign them on request.
- No subcontracting without your knowledge. If I bring in another engineer for a specific piece, I tell you first.
- Payment: invoiced after agreed milestones, net-15 unless we negotiate otherwise.
Disclaimer
The Site and any free articles or materials are provided "as is", without warranty of any kind. Articles are written from my professional experience and reflect my opinion at the time of writing. They are not legal, financial, tax, or licensed-professional advice and should not be treated as such.
Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, my liability arising out of your use of this Site (separate from any signed paid engagement) is limited to USD 100. Paid engagements have their own liability terms in the engagement letter, which prevail over this clause for that work.
Governing law and disputes
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Illinois, United States. Any dispute arising solely out of use of the Site (not a paid engagement) will be brought in the state or federal courts located in Cook County, Illinois.
For any paid engagement, the dispute terms in the signed engagement letter prevail.
Modifications
I may update these Terms when something material changes. The "Last Updated" date at the top will reflect the change. Continued use of the Site after a change indicates acceptance of the updated Terms.
Contact
- Email: hello@klim.expert
- Phone: +1 (312) 735-4185
- Postal mail: Klim Expert · Chicago, IL 60640, United States
- Contact form: /contact