Fees & formats
What it costs, before you ask.
Advisory firms rarely publish this. We publish it because the alternative is two calls spent establishing whether we are in the same range, and those calls are a cost to you as much as to us.
Three formats.
01
Orientation review
One bounded question, answered from the evidence you already hold. Often used to work out whether a full diagnostic is warranted at all.
- Duration
- One week
- Fee
- $6,000
- Basis
- Fixed
Includes
- Half-day orientation session
- Review of existing data and documents
- A short written answer with the reasoning shown
What we need
Two hours from one senior person, and read access to what you already have.
02
Full diagnostic
The main engagement, and the one most enquiries end up in. Every stage of the method, ending in a decision paper and the model behind it.
- Duration
- Four to six weeks
- Fee
- $28,000 – $45,000
- Basis
- Fixed within band, set at orientation
Includes
- All four stages of the method
- Interviews across the team, not only the leadership
- A working model with assumptions exposed and editable
- A challenge session before the recommendation is finalised
- Two weeks of follow-up questions at no charge
What we need
Two hours a week from a senior sponsor, and honest access to the numbers.
03
Standing counsel
Available only after a diagnostic, because the value is in already knowing the business. A standing call and a line you can pull between them.
- Duration
- Rolling, monthly
- Fee
- $4,500 / month
- Basis
- Cancellable with a month's notice
Includes
- One scheduled session a month
- Asynchronous questions between sessions
- A written note after each session, so decisions have a record
What we need
Nothing beyond turning up. Cancel any month; there is no minimum term.
Fees
How the number behaves.
- 01Fixed before we start
- The fee is agreed in writing at orientation and does not move. If the scope changes, that is a new agreement with a new number, discussed before any work happens.
- 02No hourly billing
- Nobody at Meridian records time against a client. An engagement that takes us longer than expected is our problem to absorb, which is the correct incentive.
- 03Orientation is refundable
- If we cannot write the question down in one sentence at the end of orientation, the engagement stops there and the fee is returned in full.
- 04Nothing is billed twice
- Travel, materials, follow-up questions and the model itself are inside the fee. There is no schedule of extras at the back of the agreement.
In the right range?
Say what the decision is, roughly what has been set aside for it and when it needs answering. The enquiry desk takes it from there, and will tell you straight away if we are the wrong firm.