Engagement Models

Start with the problem.

Scale the engagement to fit.

PCC engagements range from focused advisory work to fully embedded multidisciplinary teams. Every engagement begins with a defined problem, a clear definition of success, and access to the full breadth of PCC capability.

We scale the capacity and responsibility we bring—not the tools we're willing to use.

01 / problem consult

Help us decide.

Bring PCC one consequential, difficult problem. We examine the technology, people, processes, information, and constraints surrounding it—and give you a clear path forward.

Should we build this or buy it?
Which platform actually fits our environment?
How should we evaluate these vendors?
What would this solution need to integrate with what we already have?
Are we even solving the right problem?

You leave with clarity.

We begin by defining the problem as it actually exists, not simply as it was first presented. We examine the current state, identify the constraints that matter, and establish what a successful future state needs to look like.

From there, PCC develops and evaluates the viable paths forward. That may mean building, buying, integrating, changing a process, selecting a vendor, or even deciding that the proposed solution isn't the right one at all.

The engagement concludes with a clear recommendation, the reasoning behind it, and the practical tools needed to act on it. Depending on the problem, that may include a requirements or decision matrix, implementation considerations, vendor criteria, and an executive readout for the people responsible for what comes next.

The goal isn't a report. It's a decision you can defend—and act on.

FIXED FEE · TYPICALLY 2–4 WEEKS · $5K–$10K
$7,500 spent finding the right problem is cheaper than $500,000 spent solving the wrong one.
02 / LIGHT EMBEDDED

Work alongside us.

PCC joins your working team around a defined problem, outcome, or initiative. We participate in the work, learn the organization from the inside, and contribute wherever our capabilities can move the problem forward.

That might mean facilitating requirements in the morning, analyzing data in the afternoon, building a lightweight automation the next day, and preparing an executive decision brief the day after that.

You don't retain one PCC capability. You retain PCC.

UNDERSTAND → PARTICIPATE → CONTRIBUTE → DOCUMENT → DELIVER

Whatever the problem requires

Strategy & advisory
Product & requirements
Project delivery
Data & analysis
Process & governance
Automation & lightweight development
Vendor & stakeholder coordination

The work should survive the consultant

PCC builds an institutional record as we work: requirements, decision logs, process maps, analyses, recommendations, risk and governance artifacts, technical documentation, scripts, automations, and other materials the engagement requires.

Those artifacts belong to the client. We design them to be understood, maintained, and used after the engagement ends—not to create dependence on PCC.

Our recommendations are vendor- and platform-agnostic. PCC has no incentive to steer the work toward a particular platform, product, or implementation partner. When outside technology or expertise is needed, we document the requirements and reasoning behind the decision so the organization can evaluate its options on its own terms.

What we leave behind becomes part of what you can do next.

MONTHLY RETAINER · TYPICALLY 2–6 MONTHS · $10K–$15K / MONTH
PCC is there to increase your organization's capability, not its dependence on PCC.
03 / Heavy EMBEDDED

Help drive the work.

PCC embeds deeply around a defined initiative, program, or complex problem, bringing substantial reserved capacity and taking meaningful responsibility for moving the work forward.

We don't simply attend the working rhythm—we help establish it. PCC can lead workstreams, coordinate stakeholders and vendors, manage risks and decisions, develop requirements, conduct analysis, build practical solutions, prepare executive materials, and carry work from ambiguity through delivery.

Your team retains ownership. PCC brings the force to keep it moving.

ALIGN → LEAD → COORDINATE → EXECUTE → DELIVER

More than additional capacity.

Heavy Embedded isn't staff augmentation nor is it an outsourced role. PCC operates across organizational boundaries, following the problem wherever it leads and bringing the appropriate capability to each stage of the work.

We can lead a workstream without losing sight of the program, solve a technical problem without ignoring the people affected by it, and challenge an assumption even when doing so changes the plan.

The mandate is the outcome, not the job description.

Built around a definition of done

Every Heavy Embedded engagement begins with an explicit charter: the problem we're addressing, the target state, PCC's mandate, scope boundaries, stakeholders, decision rights, operating rhythm, and the conditions that define success.

The engagement can evolve as the work teaches us more. But PCC should always be able to answer three questions:

Why are we here?
What are we responsible for?
How will we know when we're done?

Extensions happen when the work requires them—not because the engagement was designed to continue indefinitely.

MONTHLY RETAINER · TYPICALLY 3–12 MONTHS · $22K–$30K / MONTH
Deeply embedded. Clearly bounded. Built to finish.
04 / Brigade Engagement

Bring the team.

Some problems are too broad, too specialized, or simply too consequential for one consultant to carry alone.

For a Brigade Engagement, PCC assembles a purpose-built multidisciplinary team around the objective. Strategy, technology, data, product, delivery, operations, and specialized expertise are brought together as the work requires—with PCC responsible for keeping the whole effort aligned.

You bring us the objective. We build the team required to accomplish it.

CLIENT OBJECTIVE → PCC → SPECIALIST RESOURCING → ENGAGED BRIGADE → WORKSTREAM TRACTION

More than a collection of experts.

A brigade works because expertise is distributed but understanding is shared. Each member brings a defined capability, knows the objective, understands how their work affects the whole, and communicates continuously with the people working around them.

PCC builds teams the same way. Specialists aren't dropped into isolated assignments and left to coordinate themselves. Their work is organized around a shared understanding of the problem, common success criteria, and an integrated delivery plan.

Individual expertise. Collective understanding.

One team. One engagement.

PCC identifies and assembles the capabilities the work requires, drawing from trusted specialists where deeper expertise or additional capacity is needed.

PCC remains responsible for engagement leadership, integration, quality, communication, and delivery. The client doesn't have to source a collection of independent contractors and then become responsible for making them function as a team.

The Brigade can expand, contract, or change composition as the work evolves, all without losing the shared context that holds the engagement together.

PCC doesn't just bring the people. We bring the team.

PURPOSE-BUILT TEAM · DEFINED OBJECTIVE · CUSTOM ENGAGEMENT
The right people. A shared understanding. One definition of success.
Let's Work

Bring us the difficult problems.

You don't need to have the solution figured out. That's where we start.