A day rate pays the seller for time spent. A fixed fee pays for an outcome delivered. Those are different businesses.
Day Rates Reward Slow Work
Nobody plans it, but the incentive is structural: when revenue is time, time expands. Discovery phases stretch, teams grow, and the bill arrives before the value does. The buyer carries all of the schedule risk.
A Fixed Fee Forces Scope Honesty
When the number is fixed, scope has to be defined before work starts: what is in, what is out, what you receive at the end. That discipline is uncomfortable and it is exactly what makes the engagement plannable, for both sides.
What It Asks of the Client
Fixed fees are a two-way deal. We commit to the outcome and the price. You commit to clear scope and fast decisions.
- Every price published, before the first call.
- Every price tied to a defined deliverable.
- Changes re-scoped in writing, never absorbed into a creeping bill.
- No meter. The clock is our problem.
We publish our fees because we can. That is what fixed scope makes possible.