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The parts of the relationship that are easy to get wrong.

Priorities, approval, documentation and response are the four things most technology relationships argue about later. Here is how each one is set.

01Priorities and scope

Onboarding establishes priorities with your ownership and leadership. That list is what the work is measured against, and it is revisited rather than assumed.

The engagement defines scope, capacity and the commercial model for your situation. There is no universal hours cap and no unlimited-work promise, because neither would be true.

02Approval before extra work

Your priorities set the work. You approve additional charges before extra work starts.

We agree the priorities with your leadership, watch for requests outside that plan, and discuss changes with your authorized decision-maker before proceeding. An employee request, an AI-prepared change record or an invoice is not authorization.

AI monitoring flags work or cost drifting outside the agreed priorities. It is an early warning that sends a person to have a conversation. It is not permission to run up chargeable work and ask afterwards.

Third-party expenses and licensing dependencies are discussed and documented for your engagement rather than published as a universal schedule here.

How a request outside the plan is handled

Step 1 of 5: Priorities agreed

  1. 01Priorities agreed

    Onboarding sets the priorities with your ownership and leadership. Everything after this is measured against that list.

  2. 02A request arrives

    It comes from someone inside your business, which is exactly why it needs checking rather than refusing.

  3. 03It is checked against the plan

    Work or cost drifting outside the agreed priorities is flagged, and a person looks into it with the requester.

  4. 04Extra work is held

    Nothing chargeable starts here. An employee request, an AI-prepared change record or an invoice is not authorization.

  5. 05Approved, then recorded

    Your authorized decision-maker approves the additional charge before the work starts, and the record and approval reference stay attached to it.

Illustration drawn for this page. The request and the reference number are invented, and no customer work is shown.

03Documentation and continuity

Work records, approval references and handoff notes are kept so an invoice can be traced back to what was agreed.

Documentation is written so that another provider could pick the work up. Ownership of code, accounts and licences follows your agreement; this page does not create new ownership rights in either direction.

Before we take over an existing system we confirm your authority over it, obtain the access and documentation that exist, and assess condition, dependencies, licences and rollback considerations.

04What the response window means

Automated intakeWithin five minutes, 24/7, including weekends and holidays.
PeopleThe normal support window, 8 a.m. Eastern to 5 p.m. Pacific.

An automated first response within five minutes, 24/7, including weekends and holidays. Our AI-connected phone and email intake acknowledges your request, creates a ticket and routes it.

That clock measures intake, not resolution. People work requests during our normal support window, 8 a.m. Eastern to 5 p.m. Pacific. Service days, after-hours callbacks and any extended coverage are set in your agreement.

You also have a direct line to the owner, Ashish. People monitor the automated work and step in when needed. That is not a claim that a person watches every interaction or that an engineer is on call at any hour.

What the paperwork looks like

Four documents from one invented engagement, in the templates we actually use. They show the sequence: a scoped proposal, a change authorized before the work, an acceptance record, and an invoice that traces back to both.

Ask about any of this on the first call

The assessment is also where these terms get explained against your actual situation.