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Data-led solution design

Use your data to shape your delivery model and your pricing. We combine time and motion studies with the real effect of technology and automation, so you know what a service will take to deliver, and what it will cost, before you commit.

Case study at a glance

A large global recruitment company, pricing new business:

  • Time and motion across every step of the recruitment process
  • Adjusted automatically by job category, location and job family
  • Funnel forecasts for applications per role
  • A reusable tool for every delivery model
  • A step change in pricing accuracy
PermanentContingentDirect deliverySupply chain ledProject-based

Why it matters

Price on evidence, not assumptions

You probably already have data on how long tasks take, and some idea of what technology and automation could save. But do you have the tools to forecast your future operating model accurately, and price new opportunities with confidence?

What we build on

  • Time and motion studies, yours or created with us
  • Automation opportunities from each technology platform, at every stage of your process
  • Downtime and lost productivity, not just task times
  • Process differences between locations or product types
  • Outside influences such as seasonal or market conditions, added by hand or via API

What you get

A detailed breakdown of the resource needed to deliver your service, and what it will cost, in whatever form works for you:

  • For finance: outputs that feed your existing pricing templates
  • For sales: clear infographics to share during a pursuit
  • For the long term: a reusable tool your organisation can use again and again

Our approach

From process steps to a price you can stand behind

We model your service step by step, so every assumption in your price can be traced back to evidence.

The more variables we capture, the more confident you can be that nothing has been missed, and the fewer surprises once a contract is won.

  1. Map the process

    Every step in your delivery model, with time and motion data for each.

  2. Weigh up the technology

    The efficiency each platform brings at each step, set against the cost it adds.

  3. Add the variables

    Location, product type, seasonality and market conditions, built into the formulas.

  4. Shape the outputs

    Pricing inputs for finance, infographics for sales, or a tool you can reuse.

Case study

Pricing recruitment on evidence

The challenge

A large global recruitment company priced new business on high-level productivity assumptions, not time and motion studies. New technology across the recruitment process wasn't being weighed properly: its efficiencies against the cost it added. New wins often had to be re-forecast and re-budgeted once the true costs were known.

Our solution

We built a data-led solution design model with a full time and motion study of every recruitment step. It adjusted automatically by job category and location, used different workflows for different job families, and forecast the likely recruitment funnel: how many applications to expect for a role, based on the company's attractiveness.

The outcome

A reusable tool for building solutions across permanent, contingent, direct, supply chain led and project-based delivery. It produced an infographic for bids and sales and a template pricing model for commercial finance. Pricing accuracy took a step change, and clients gained confidence in the proposed model.

Pricing

Priced to your project

Every delivery model is different, so we can't give meaningful prices without a specification. Tell us what you need to model and we'll send a priced proposal.

A priced proposal for every project

from a one-off model to a reusable tool

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