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Effective date: November 14, 2026
These Terms of Use govern your use of nextphaseae.com. By using the website, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the website.
Next Phase A&E Advisory, LLC ("Next Phase A&E," "we," "us") provides business management consulting to owners of architecture, engineering and design consulting firms. Our office is at 110 Traders Cross, Bluffton, SC 29909.
Next Phase A&E Advisory, LLC provides business management consulting, not legal, tax, investment, insurance, audit, assurance, architectural, engineering, or other licensed professional services. We are not a law firm or CPA firm.
Our services and materials are not substitutes for advice from appropriately qualified professionals. Talk with your attorney, CPA, insurance advisor or other licensed professional before acting on any matter in their field.
Ownership transfer, valuation, tax, contract and employment questions belong with your attorney and CPA.
Reading this website, submitting a form, taking the 7-Minute Firm Health Check or attending a free consultation does not make you a client. A client relationship begins only when both parties sign a written professional services agreement. The signed agreement, not these terms, governs any engagement.
Content on this website, including articles in A&E Insights, describes general business practices for architecture, engineering and design consulting firms. Every firm differs. Do not rely on website content as advice for your firm without a written engagement.
Sample reports and graphics use fictional firms, projects and figures. They show the format of our work, not results for any client.
Industry figures come from the sources we link. We do not guarantee their accuracy or currency.
The Health Check is a free self-assessment for general information. Your results depend on your own answers. The Health Check is not an audit, a valuation, a certified benchmark or a prediction of profitability. Score bands guide priorities only and are not validated research thresholds.
Please send accurate information through our forms. Never send Social Security numbers, bank logins, passwords or personal tax returns through the website.
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Next Phase A&E Advisory, LLC owns the content on this website, including text, graphics, sample reports, The Next Phase Method name and its phase graphics, unless a page states otherwise.
You are welcome to read, print or share pages for your own business use, with credit to Next Phase A&E. Please do not copy, republish, sell or adapt website content for commercial use without our written permission.
Our pages link to other websites, such as the American Institute of Architects, the American Council of Engineering Companies and LinkedIn. We do not control those websites and are not responsible for their content or privacy practices.
We provide this website and its content "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, express or implied, to the fullest extent the law permits. We do not promise the website will be uninterrupted, error-free or free of harmful code.
To the fullest extent the law permits, Next Phase A&E Advisory, LLC and its owners will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits or data, arising from your use of the website or reliance on its content. This limit does not apply to an engagement under a signed professional services agreement, which sets its own terms.
You agree to defend and hold harmless Next Phase A&E Advisory, LLC and its owners from claims arising from your misuse of the website or your breach of these terms.
South Carolina law governs these terms, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Any dispute about the website belongs in the state or federal courts located in South Carolina.
When we update these terms, we post the new version on this page and change the effective date at the top. Your use of the website after an update means you accept the updated terms.
Questions about these terms: Next Phase A&E Advisory, LLC, 110 Traders Cross, Bluffton, SC 29909. Phone: (888) 374-3051. Email: Rodney@NextPhaseAE.com.