You keep the design. We carry the entitlement

Capacity when the wave arrives, without staffing for it year-round.

The entitlement work attached to a project isn’t design, but it lands on the design firm anyway.

Somebody has to run the submittals, track the staff comments, sit through the community meeting, prepare the board package, and manage a political process that has nothing to do with what your firm is actually good at. Usually it’s a project manager who is being paid to engineer, doing it at an engineer’s rate, at the expense of the work you’d rather have them doing.

And it doesn’t arrive evenly. Entitlements come in waves, and the waves don’t line up with hiring.

What we take off you

• Pre-submittal meetings and written interpretation requests
• Application preparation, submittals and every resubmittal
• Staff comments, tracked, routed and closed out
• Community information meetings and neighbor outreach
• Board and commission preparation, and presenting where it helps
• Conditions of approval, negotiated and written down accurately

You keep the design, the seal, and the client relationship. We’re a subconsultant or a fractional retainer, whichever suits how you bill.

We are not competing with you

Worth saying plainly, because it’s the first thing a firm wonders when a consultancy calls. We don’t engineer, we don’t seal drawings, and we don’t develop. We’re not going to turn 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.

How it’s structured

Either per project, scoped after a call, or as a fractional retainer, a monthly arrangement that scales up when the wave arrives and down when it doesn’t. Nobody gets hired for one project and nobody gets carried through a quiet quarter.