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**Step 1: Name the risk before you draft.** Key person risk in a consulting agreement is a continuity control, not legal decoration. If delivery depends on one person or a small group, losing that capacity can quickly lead to missed deadlines and disputes about what was promised.
**Treat your consulting termination clause as an operating control, not legal filler, and you can reduce uncertainty and dispute risk when things go sideways.**
Before you propose a consulting success fee, use a three-part screen: your cash position can absorb delay, the client is reliable enough to measure and pay, and the outcome is materially within your control. If any one of those fails, the upside may stay theoretical while most of the downside sits with you.
Your first job is to remove interpretation gaps. A retainer SOW should let a third party classify a request, route a dispute, assign a delayed dependency, and choose the right termination path without asking what you meant.