Charging for model research as a line item
Finding which model holds a brief is billable work most studios absorb. How to scope a model-selection pass, cap it on three axes, and invoice it defensibly.
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Fixed-price or cost-plus: quoting AI video work
When a fixed price is safe on AI video work, when to quote a base plus a change-order rate, and the clause language that makes the trigger stick.
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Moving a client off hourly billing
A mid-relationship migration from hours to fixed deliverables: rebuild their own timesheet history into a rate card, run a shadow-quote month, then switch.
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The operating week of a solo AI content business
A block week that stops production eating outreach and delivery: named sales days, batch days, and one day for review, invoicing and next week's briefs.
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Pricing exploration separately from finish
Generation got cheap and finishing did not. A two-phase quote with a selection gate, so a client's appetite for options stops eating your finishing capacity.
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Quoting a shot you have never generated
When the hit rate is unknown until you try, quote a contingency: a paid test block, a stated attempt ceiling, and a fallback deliverable that still ships.
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Raising prices on existing content clients
The sequence for repricing a legacy content retainer without losing it: the evidence pack, the notice period, the grandfather window, and the email itself.
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Rush fees when turnaround is hours, not weeks
The rush fee used to price overtime, and generation removed the overtime. Price review-side displacement instead, with tiers, triggers and a reset script.
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Sell capacity, not deliverables, in a retainer
Asset-count retainers get gamed once variants are cheap. Build a capacity-unit retainer: what a unit buys, how unused units roll, and where the ceiling sits.
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Tier deliverables by difficulty, not duration
Runtime stopped predicting effort. Build a rate card on the nine shot attributes that actually drive attempt counts, with tier bands and an attempt allowance.
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Turning finished client work into sellable templates
Strip a delivered project into a reusable template: variables extracted, brand assets removed, prompts generalised, plus the clause that makes it legal.
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