Cian BrennanFounder, Quantum Contract Solutions · Founder

More jobs don’t break a company — scaling a broken structure does.

Name: More jobs don’t break a company — scaling a broken structure does.
Uploaded: 2026-01-07T04:00:37+00:00
Duration: 41 s
Channel: Cian Brennan
Description: In this brief segment, the speaker addresses subcontractors, emphasizing the critical need to include reciprocal termination clauses in their contracts…

7 Jan 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief segment, the speaker addresses subcontractors, emphasizing the critical need to include reciprocal termination clauses in their contracts. He explains that most standard contracts list numerous ways the hiring party can terminate the subcontractor, but often lack any provision allowing the subcontractor to exit if the hiring party defaults—particularly non‑payment. This creates a situation where a subcontractor may be forced to continue work without assurance of payment. The speaker advises that contracts should explicitly state that if the hiring party fails to pay (a default), the subcontractor can immediately terminate the agreement and cut losses. He stresses that having such protective termination rights is essential to avoid being trapped in unpaid work.

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If you're a subcontractor, you gotta understand the termination clause in the contract. What most contracts will say is a list of all the ways that they can get rid of you, and I guess that's fine, right? But have no way of how you can get rid of them. And primarily what that means is let's say they don't pay you and then you find yourself in a situation where you can't actually leave the project because there's no way to do it in the contract. And so they haven't paid you, you have to stay on, and you're not sure if they're gonna pay you the next month either. So you need it to say in the contract, if they default, which is they don't pay you, that you can just get off out of the contract immediately and cut your losses. It's very, very important that you have ways to terminate them for not complying with the contract, as they have a whole list of ways that they can terminate you.