Hopefully some of the current contacts give you some consulting work. If they're any good at their jobs they probably know that they would benefit from outside assistance as well but I guess it depends on how much they're tied by leadership.
Why do you have a NDA for exiting? That feels really dubious to me (mostly because I'm really big on transparency and only barely tolerate NDAs on things where it makes sense like during development of something).
At the moment, it is going to come down to "no money" which will be the situation until "new money" comes in next year.
It is for the severance package. Everything is negotiable of course, so they don't want to set baselines based on those who negotiated up.
Right.
I suppose that makes sense on a level but I still think it's stupid.