Wayland Employment Package

Employment Package

Estimated time: 20-30 minutes

This workflow assembles an employment agreement bundle: an offer letter with at-will language, an IP assignment, and restrictive covenants (non-compete and non-solicit) checked against the hiring jurisdiction's enforceability rules. State matters enormously here: California, Massachusetts, and several other states sharply limit or void non-competes.

The deliverable is a set of drafts. Counsel review is required before any offer is extended.

When to Use

• User wants a complete employment-agreement bundle, not just one document
• User needs jurisdiction-specific non-compete enforceability flags
• User wants offer + IP assignment + restrictive covenants assembled together
• Do NOT use for a single standalone offer letter with no IP or restrictive terms
• Do NOT use as a replacement for licensed legal advice

Steps

Step 1: Intake the Hiring Brief (uses: legal-employment)

Ask the user for the inputs that drive the bundle: the role and level, the jurisdiction (state matters a lot for non-compete enforceability), whether the person is full-time or a contractor, and whether equity is included. Do not proceed until you have at least the role, jurisdiction, and worker classification.

• Input: role / level, jurisdiction, full-time vs contractor, equity inclusion
• Output: captured hiring brief
• Key focus: capture the jurisdiction and worker classification up front

Step 2: Flag Jurisdictional Constraints (uses: legal-employment)

Infer the jurisdictional flags for this employment relationship from the brief. Call out non-compete limits explicitly: California, Massachusetts, and other states with strict or void-by-default non-compete rules. State the flags, explain the reasoning, and add the explicit caution that these must be reviewed with counsel. Carry these flags into the offer and restrictive-covenant steps.

• Input: hiring brief from Step 1
• Output: jurisdictional flags, with non-compete enforceability called out
• Key focus: surface state-specific non-compete and wage-law constraints early

Step 3: Draft the Offer Letter with At-Will (uses: legal-employment)

Draft the offer letter incorporating at-will employment language appropriate to the jurisdiction. Include role, compensation, start terms, and equity if present. Apply any jurisdictional flags from Step 2 to the at-will and offer terms. Surface the draft to the user.

• Input: hiring brief from Step 1, jurisdictional flags from Step 2
• Output: offer letter draft with at-will language
• Key focus: jurisdiction-appropriate at-will language and complete offer terms

Step 4: Draft the IP Assignment (uses: legal-employment)

Draft the IP assignment agreement assigning work product to the employer, with the usual carve-outs (prior inventions, jurisdiction-mandated exclusions such as state inventor-protection statutes). Surface the draft to the user.

• Input: hiring brief from Step 1
• Output: IP assignment draft with appropriate carve-outs
• Key focus: complete assignment with statutory carve-outs for the jurisdiction

Step 5: Review Core Docs with the User (uses: legal-employment)

Present the offer letter and IP assignment together and ask whether to proceed to restrictive covenants or refine the core docs. If the user wants changes, gather feedback, re-run the IP assignment draft incorporating it, and re-present (loop up to two times). When approved, proceed.

• Input: offer letter from Step 3, IP assignment from Step 4, user feedback
• Output: approved offer letter and IP assignment
• Key focus: lock the core docs before adding restrictive covenants

Step 6: Draft Restrictive Covenants with Jurisdictional Check (uses: legal-employment)

Draft the restrictive covenants (non-compete, non-solicit, non-disclosure) and run each against the jurisdictional flags from Step 2. For each covenant, mark whether it is enforceable, narrow-to-enforce, or void in the jurisdiction, and adjust scope and duration accordingly. Surface the draft with the enforceability flags to the user.

• Input: hiring brief from Step 1, jurisdictional flags from Step 2
• Output: restrictive covenants draft with per-covenant enforceability flags
• Key focus: every covenant carries an explicit enforceability verdict for the state

Step 7: Finalize and Ship the Bundle (uses: legal-employment)

Present the restrictive covenants and ask whether to ship the bundle for counsel review or refine the covenants. If the user wants changes, gather feedback, re-run the covenants step, and re-present (loop up to two times). When approved, assemble the bundle: brief, jurisdiction flags, offer letter, IP assignment, and restrictive covenants, marked as DRAFTS requiring counsel review before extending the offer.

• Input: restrictive covenants from Step 6, all prior outputs, user feedback
• Output: assembled employment bundle marked DRAFTS pending counsel review
• Key focus: deliver one bundle with the counsel-review gate clearly stated