to fly first we tie our shoes.

intro weeks 1–2

we learn your process and your nomenclature. we sit on the ground floor.

we interview your team. we take assignments and problem statements.

we find the people who have been told no a hundred times and still care about the place. those are our customers.

we are looking for unpaid tech debt and glaciers of hidden cost.

sometimes the cult of mediocrity is an overworked c-suite. sometimes it is a proof of concept still running in production.

week two ends with a report: what we found, written in your nomenclature.

the authoring weeks 3–4

we write your convention with them. numbered, dated, published under your name.

a convention is an opinion. this one is yours.

credited in full against production work.

ongoing

project based and outcome based. never by the hour — the hour is the wrong unit when the job is to need us less.

investigations are always time boxed.

the price gets less the more we solve.

the usual arrangement pays more the longer your problem lasts. ours pays less as the conventions scale out.

that is the vision, and we are testing it in the open: a thin margin of growth, held to pay the people doing the work better than convention does. that is the sustainability clause.

engagements begin with the intro.

the convention is yours. published under your name, or not published at all.

we do not resell tooling. we hold no vendor margin, so the recommendation is the recommendation.

read only, until you say otherwise. nothing is changed in your works during the intro.

the intro is qualification for both of us. where we cannot get what the work needs, we say so early.