Why 50% deposit is non-negotiable
Fixed-fee offers start with a fifty percent deposit. It makes the calendar, owners, and scope real before work begins.
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Free diagnostics train the market to extract senior time and ghost.
Our public offers are fixed-fee. 50% on signature to start. Remainder on delivery (or as written on the SOW).
What the deposit buys both sides
- Calendar is real.
- Access and owners are real.
- Scope fights happen once, in writing.
- We do not run a charity discovery practice dressed as enterprise sales.
What we will not do
- Multi-week unpaid “assessments” that recreate the sprint
- Starting work on verbal enthusiasm
- Expanding to a second workflow without a change order
Paid discovery (short, fixed) exists when a full sprint is premature — still paid.
Next step: If deposit is impossible, the organisation is not ready — or we are not the vendor. Either answer is useful.
Fence: Commercial terms do not change the regulatory fence.