For independent consultants
Your proposal shouldn’t be a document nobody signs. Send it as a link your client accepts and pays, and keep hours, half days and a monthly slot on the same page.
Questions independent consultants ask
How should an independent consultant price a project?
Estimate the days, price the result, and quote one number. Take half before you start and invoice the rest on delivery.
What should a consulting statement of work include?
What you’ll deliver, by when, what’s out of scope, how changes are priced, and when you’re paid. Five short sections cover most engagements of a few weeks.
Should a consultant charge by the hour or by the project?
By the project wherever you can define the result, by the hour where you can’t. Advice on a call is hourly; a finished report is a project.
What is an engagement letter?
A short agreement that says how you advise, what you’re liable for, and how you’re paid. The one your page starts with is a paragraph, and your client accepts it before booking.
How do consultants avoid scope creep?
Write the scope into the offer your client accepts, and treat anything new as a new offer. When they ask for more, send it as a link with its own price.
When should a consultant send an invoice?
On a date you both agreed before the work: at booking for short work, half up front and half on delivery for projects. Your invoices carry the due date you set, and reminders go from your name after it.
What gets in the way
Most of your work starts with a proposal, and the proposal lives in a document nobody signs.
You bill in hours, half days and projects, and every client wants a different one.
Between engagements you’re selling, and during them you’re too busy to.
What’s different for independent consultants
A proposal that takes the payment
An offer carries the scope, the price, an optional deposit and the agreement on one link. Your client accepts and pays in three taps.
A standing monthly slot
A client who wants you on call buys a slot held for them each month, booked when it suits them and renewed on their card.
Your page on the first day
This is the consulting setup, and it’s what your page starts with. Change any of it where it appears.
- Clients can book from tomorrow onward.
- Moving or canceling is free up to 24 hours before.
- There are 15 minutes clear after every session.
- Before booking, your page asks: “What should I read before we talk?”
Your engagement letter opens with this: Advice is given in good faith on the information you share; decisions and outcomes stay yours.
What it doesn’t do for you
There’s no time tracking, no timesheets and no expense tracking. If a client’s procurement team needs you set up as a supplier, that form is still yours to fill in.
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