Working with us
What an engagement looks like from the contracting side — for the sponsor who has to take it through procurement, legal, or finance. This page describes; it does not bind. The executed agreement controls, and nothing on this website is incorporated into an agreement unless the agreement itself says so.
How engagements are structured
- One Statement of Work per phase. Each SOW carries its own scope, schedule, fee, and acceptance terms; neither party is obligated to a next phase by signing the current one.
- Fixed fees are quoted before work starts and unchanged after it. Work beyond a scope card or a stated cap happens only through a written change order, agreed and priced before it is performed — never absorbed silently, never invoiced as a surprise.
- Work begins on a dated start window agreed at scoping. Client review windows and client-caused delays extend elapsed time day-for-day; they do not consume scope.
Acceptance and review
- Interim deliverables carry short, stated review windows for factual correction. The final deliverable requires explicit written sign-off by the client sponsor, with a consolidated revision cycle reserved for it.
- Acceptance criteria are written into the SOW against the outcomes confirmed at the start of the engagement — not left to impressions at the end of it.
Data handling
- The published address, henryb@binaryadvisers.com, is for initial contact and general correspondence. Engagement data moves through a transfer channel agreed with the client at scoping — where the client’s organization has its own secure-transfer protocol, that protocol is followed.
- Data is requested in aggregate or de-identified form wherever possible. Personally identifiable records are not requested in data submissions; if one arrives unsolicited, it is removed from the systems we control on discovery and the sender is told.
- At engagement close, client data is deleted from the systems we control. Stated honestly, that has limits: email provider and backup retention run on the providers’ schedules, and accounting records and legally required retention are kept for as long as the law requires.
- Ordinary business-contact and contracting data — names, work emails, signatures, procurement references — is used to execute and administer the engagement and is retained as a business record under the same accounting and legal obligations.
What procurement can expect
- Execution on exact legal entity names, with signing authority stated on both sides, and any purchase-order or procurement reference your organization requires carried on the SOW and the invoices.
- Where a master services agreement exists between the parties, it governs the SOW. Confidentiality runs both ways: each party holds the other’s non-public information in confidence and uses it solely for the engagement.
- On payment in full, deliverables belong to the client. The firm retains its pre-existing methods, frameworks, and research products.
The controlling rule, restated
This page is a plain-language description of how the firm works, kept consistent with the terms actually offered. It is not an offer, a warranty, or part of any contract. The Statement of Work you execute — and the master agreement, where one exists — is the entire agreement.