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Copmany offers four standard service tiers and one non-standard one. Each is calibrated to a different scale of organisational ambition, budget, and willingness to attend a Tuesday 8:00am check-in.
Engagement Tiers
All tiers are inclusive of access to The Copmany Way™ methodology, branded notebooks, and at least one Senior Partner who has been briefed on your name. Pricing reflects the comprehensive nature of the comprehensiveness involved.
Beyond Unobtainium, no further tiers are publicly listed. Clients aware of additional tiers are presumed to have already engaged us.
The Copmany Way™
The Copmany Way™ is the disciplined application of a series of phases, each followed by another phase, until the engagement concludes or transitions seamlessly into a follow-on engagement. The methodology has been refined over many engagements and is reviewed annually by the people who wrote it.
We diagnose the current state. The current state is rarely as the client described it. Output: a current-state diagnostic, in PDF.
We diagnose the diagnosis. The diagnosis is sometimes the problem. Output: a diagnostic of the diagnostic, in PDF.
We frame the problem in a way that aligns with our solution portfolio. Re-framing is included at no additional cost during this phase.
A two-day workshop with the relevant stakeholders. Output: a Mural board, three flip charts, and a sense of momentum.
We deliver a recommendation. The recommendation is sometimes a further engagement. The recommendation is sometimes the recommendation we made last quarter, refreshed.
Following a leadership change at the client, the recommendation is gently re-recommended.
We oversee implementation by a separate vendor. We do not, ourselves, implement. Implementation is what others do, well.
We sustain the engagement. Sustaining the engagement is, in many cases, the engagement.
A closing dinner. White tablecloths. The Engagement Partner gives a brief, dignified speech. A photograph is taken for the case study which we will then be unable to publish.
Standard Deliverables
In keeping with our commitment to consistency, every Copmany engagement, regardless of tier, includes a baseline of standard deliverables. Variation occurs only in volume, weight of paper stock, and the size of the executive summary.
One page, double-sided. Bullet points only. Decision points bolded. Distributed in advance of every Steerco. Read in approximately three of every ten cases.
The deck. Always the deck. Constructed in 16:9, exported as PDF, and accompanied by a verbal narration prepared by the Engagement Partner during the elevator ride.
A live spreadsheet identifying, classifying, and ageing each synergy. Synergies fall into four buckets: realised, partially realised, aspirational, and aspirational with caveats.
A Gantt chart, gently fictionalised. Includes optimistic dependencies, generous milestones, and a swimlane for “Other.”
The Steering Committee. Meets fortnightly. Minutes are taken, circulated, and forgotten until the following Steerco. Chaired on rotation by the Office of Goverence.
A 15-minute daily stand-up which lasts 25 minutes. Attended virtually by some, in person by others, and absentmindedly by those joining from the airport lounge.
Pricing Philosophy
Copmany prices engagements on a value basis, a time-and-materials basis, a fixed-fee basis, or, in some cases, all three simultaneously, reconciled at the conclusion of each phase. Our procurement team will help you identify which basis is, in your case, the basis.
| Basis | Suited To | Reconciled With | Typical Range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fixed Fee | Defined deliverables | Change Order Template C | $$ – $$$ |
| Time & Materials | Undefined deliverables | Monthly Invoice + Side Letter | $$$ – $$$$ |
| Value-Based | Outcome-defined work | Joint Outcome Memo (TBD) | — (Indexed) |
| Retainer | Long-standing relationships | Annual Renewal Review | Quarterly |
| Hybrid (All of the Above) | Strategic accounts | Master Reconciliation Schedule | Negotiated |
Frequently Asked Questions
Engagements last as long as the engagement requires. We have engagements that have lasted six weeks. We have engagements that have lasted decades. We have one engagement which has, technically, never closed.
We guarantee that an engagement will occur, that deliverables will be produced, and that meetings will be held. Outcomes, in the broader sense, are influenced by many factors, of which our involvement is one.
Most of our previous clients are subject to mutual confidentiality. References can be provided in the form of a letter, signed by Copmany, on Copmany letterhead, regarding Copmany.
Yes. Fixed-price engagements are priced at fixation. Adjustments to the fixed price are governed by the change-order procedure described in our Master Services Agreement, Section 14.3(b)(ii).
Yes. Your team will be dedicated, in a structural sense, while also serving on several adjacent engagements, in an operational sense. Calendars permitting.
This is, in fact, our preferred scenario. Changes in scope are managed through Change Order Template C, which extends the engagement and refreshes the Statement of Work.
Engagement
Or end with the call. Both outcomes are valid. The call is, regardless, instructive.