Draft your agreement, assess its fairness, and track every obligation after signing.
An agreement can be specified with total precision — dates, numbers, responsibilities — and still be entirely tilted toward one side. Clarity and fairness are two different standards, and one does not guarantee the other.
Most agreements don't collapse from deliberate betrayal, but from gradual forgetting: one late commitment becomes a habit, until both sides discover they each remember what they signed differently.
Most disputes between partners and friends do not start with bad intent — they start with an agreement that was never written clearly. Early clarity is not suspicion; it is the kindest form of protection.