Entitlement and development capacity on retainer, for firms that need it in waves rather than continuously.
Entitlement work doesn’t arrive at a steady rate. It arrives in waves, and the waves don’t line up with hiring.
So firms end up in one of two bad positions. Either they carry a person through the quiet stretches to have them for the busy ones, or they don’t, and the busy stretch gets handled by whoever has the least capacity to handle it.
Fractional is the third option: an experienced land team you engage on retainer and scale with the work.
Who this is for
Civil engineering and land planning firms. You keep the design. We carry the entitlement processing and, where you want it, the estimating, so you’re not staffing up for one project or turning down work because the entitlement side would swamp you.
Land use attorneys. You keep the legal strategy and the hearing. We do the record pull, the precedent research, the submittal management and the staff relationship, which is work that doesn’t need a law license and shouldn’t carry a partner rate.
Architects and urban designers. You keep the design. We navigate design review and manage the conditions that reshape a site plan after approval.
Owners and investors outsourcing land management. If you originate deals and would rather not build a department to manage them, we can be the land team: diligence, approvals, and development on the deals you bring.
How it works
A monthly retainer that buys you an entitlement manager attached to your projects, plus published task pricing for the work as it occurs. The retainer covers the part that never gets invoiced under a project-fee model and always happens anyway: the calls, the agenda watching, the staff turnover, being the person who knows the file in a month when no deliverable is due.
Scale it up when the wave arrives. Scale it down when it doesn’t. Nobody gets laid off and nobody gets overloaded.
We’re not competing with you
Worth saying directly, because it’s the first thing a firm wonders. We don’t design, we don’t practise law, and we don’t develop. We’re not going to end up across the table from you on your own client’s next project.
Referrals go both ways, and whoever brought the client keeps the client.
Turning down work, or carrying someone through a quiet stretch? Worth a conversation.