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# Consulting - Pricing
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# Governed by ../LAWS.
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summary: "The standard commercial basis. Exact scope and total are agreed and quoted per engagement."

day_rate: "$2,000 per working day for advisory and assessment work."
minimum: "Three working days minimum per engagement, and those three days cannot be spread over more than four weeks. Days need not be consecutive; a working day is a full day of deliverable work, or two half-days of at least four hours each on different days."
fixed_scope: "Fixed-scope engagements are quoted as a set number of working days at the day rate. Travel days do not count against the working days; the working days are pure deliverable work."
term_length: "The calendar window is two weeks for every three working days, rounded up to the next whole block (for example 3 days over 2 weeks, 6 days over 4 weeks). That is the outer window; Cedric may complete sooner by mutual agreement with the client."
commencement: "The engagement starts (and the calendar term begins) when Cedric has received the materials and access needed for the scope and the 50% deposit is paid. The clock does not run while awaiting client materials."
payment_schedule: "For a fixed-scope engagement, a 50% mobilization deposit is due on signing (a precondition to starting) and the 50% balance is invoiced on completion and due on a short net term (standard 15 days). A mobilization minimum (the lesser of three working days or the deposit) is non-refundable and earned on signing, to cover mobilization and the opportunity cost of reserving the window, even if the engagement never starts; on termination Cedric is paid the greater of days performed or that minimum. Completion is acceptance (or deemed acceptance) of the final report; see the terms page (/consulting/terms)."
client_requirements: "To start and run, the client provides the deposit and the scope materials and access, informs relevant staff of the engagement, designates a dedicated point of contact, and provides a list of staff Cedric may contact."
expenses: "Each party bears its own expenses. Cedric absorbs his own travel; there is no expense billing in either direction."
retainers_and_projects: "Advisory retainers, fractional-CTO arrangements, and project engagements are scoped and quoted individually."

value_framing: >
  Founder, CTO, and CEO-level assessment across multiple areas, with travel
  absorbed and pure working days, is a strong return against the cost of
  stage-typical integration mistakes.


implicit:
  - "The day rate is the standard basis; a specific engagement's day count and total are agreed during scoping."