Like working by the hour or some other increment? I'd love to do this. No more haggling over scope, no more wondering if I have the budget to try and make a design cleaner or more economical, no more fretting about plan changes from architects and wondering if it's enough to ask for more. Unfortunately my clients pretty well universally aren't interested. They'd rather pay for the certainty, even if it means paying more because I have to price the uncertainty in.
Generally the only time people actually want to pay us by the hour is when either:
- Our lump sum is higher than they want to pay and they think they can do better hourly
- We refuse to work on a lump sum basis because the scope is too nebulous or open-ended