Methodology & IP Licensing Agreement
Your framework is not free just because someone can describe it.
You built something. A methodology. A curriculum. A system that gets results. And now someone wants to teach it, deliver it, or build a business around it. That's not a compliment — that's a licensing deal. And it needs a contract that reflects what you've actually created.
Teach My Method is an attorney-drafted licensing agreement for when someone wants to use your framework, deliver your curriculum, or run your program under your name. This is not a content license. Content is what you made. A methodology is how you think. These are different rights, different risks, and a very different price.
What's inside:
Precise definition of what's licensed and what's explicitly excluded. Future versions, your personal coaching, your other programs, your name as an endorsement beyond basic attribution; none of that is included unless you say so. The materials inventory in Schedule A lists every component with a checkbox. If it's not checked, it's not licensed.
Delivery method authorization covers live, recorded, internal-only, and client-facing delivery, because what the Licensee does with your methodology matters as much as having it. Sublicensing is prohibited by default. Modification is prohibited by default. Quality control provisions give you the right to review how they're delivering your work and require correction before the damage reaches you.
Fee structure supports flat fee, per-cohort, revenue share, and annual license — with reporting obligations and audit rights if you're doing a revenue split, because a revenue share without audit rights is just hoping they're honest.
The cohort wind-down provision is the one nobody thinks about until it's too late: what happens to active students if the license is terminated. This agreement defines it. You fill it in before you sign.
Also includes: AI training prohibition, no AI-generated delivery clause, reverse engineering prohibition, reps and warranties, term and renewal options, and a prep sheet with the four questions you must be able to answer before you license any methodology to anyone.
Who this is for: Creators, educators, strategists, and coaches who built something proprietary and want someone else to deliver it without losing ownership, reputation, or control of where it goes next.
What most templates won't tell you: There's a difference between someone learning from you and someone licensing your method to teach others. One is a student. The other is a business relationship that needs terms, boundaries, and a way out if they deliver your work badly.