2026-01-20
Speedy Bohemian is inspired by the 'Hermit Model' of tech consulting voiced by the Australian consultancy Hermit Tech.
The industry standard practice for contracting and pricing—charging on an hourly basis across several contractors on constantly slipping deadlines—is virtually designed for abuse: it encourages dishonesty, misrepresentation of timelines, and constant slippage. It does not foster trust between contractor and client.
Speedy Bohemian undertakes engagements on a fixed-price, fixed-length basis.
Speedy Bohemian does not charge prior to the start of a contract: the first call, conversations with staff and management, assessing your business' needs—it's all free.
Once we've completed the initial assessment and decided to work together, our first task is to establish the criteria for the final deliverable. This may be a specified product, optimizations to an existing system, or analysis of a business problem.
In any case, the criteria for a successful deliverable must be
Specific: Whether the project has fulfilled a criterion must be clearly and objectively testable. If testing success is non-trivial, building those testing conditions should be the first priority.
Achievable: The criteria must be reasonable and achievable given project scope and timeline. When in doubt, be small and concrete; it's easier to gradually expand the scope of a successful project than to rein in an oversized one.
Valuable: The kind and magnitude of the value delivered, and to whom the value is delivered, should be clear from the outset. Ideally, the stakeholder who would retain value is directly involved in negotiations.
In cases where you don't need a specific product or system delivered, but instead wish to have a consultant on retainer to deal with problems as they arise, we likewise offer fixed-price, fixed length retainer contracts.
For ongoing support and maintenance of delivered products, we also provide monthly or annual contracts priced according to the expected support load.
We further affirm that all code, data, documentation, presentations, reports, and other material produced in the course of an engagement, either as final deliverable or an intermediary artifact, is the property of the client, not of Speedy Bohemian LLC. Speedy Bohemian LLC takes the role of custodian and developer of this property, shaping and augmenting it until it satisfies the desired specifications of the client.