You approve the person and the rate first
Weekly billing on selected engagements. Cancel on a weekly boundary. The expert remains vetted against the same standards as project work.
Launch status
Specialist support for defined, ongoing work.
Use this for automation maintenance, workflow monitoring, data clean-up, documentation and bounded operational support. Architecture, implementation, security and material business-system work stay on the assessed project route.
When this is the right route
- A system already exists and needs looking after.
- The work is bounded and can be described without a new diagnosis.
- You want capacity, not a new architecture.
When it is not
If you do not yet know what the work is, start with a Trail Map. Role bands are shown after standards and scope, not as a lead price.