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Hours
- Base hours
- Hours under ideal conditions, as if writing from scratch with no surprises. The anchor: everything else is an adjustment around this.
- Nominal hours
- Base after all multipliers and reductions. The hours you actually estimate to get the work done.
- Risk hours
- Extra hours to cover unexpected issues. Only from risks with 'Include' enabled.
- Total hours
- Nominal + Risk. This is what the price is calculated on.
Deliverable
- prototype
- Throwaway. No multiplier: Base is already that.
- mvp
- Works, minimal tests.
- production
- Solid, in real use: tests, error handling, docs.
- enterprise
- Hardening, observability, implicit SLAs.
- mission_critical
- Zero tolerance, redundancy. Maximum multiplier.
Reuse (reduces hours)
- none
- Writing everything from scratch.
- internal_component
- Reusing one of your own components, with adaptations.
- white_box
- Reusing code you know inside out and can modify.
- black_box
- Reusing a box that just works without touching it (e.g. Webround stack). Maximum reduction.
- generated
- Generated code that you then refine.
Offloading (delegating to external systems)
- What it is
- Work you do NOT write because someone else's system handles it. Different from Reuse (which is YOUR code reused).
- none
- Not delegating anything — you write it all yourself.
- saas
- Fully managed, turnkey service (e.g. Firebase Auth, Algolia). Maximum reduction.
- existing_platform
- An entire platform you already have (e.g. Webround). Maximum reduction.
- api
- Calling an external service's API: the logic is theirs, you orchestrate the calls.
- sdk
- Using their library in your code (e.g. Stripe SDK). Saves time, but more manual integration.
- framework
- Relying on a framework that structures the work (e.g. Cloudflare Workers runtime).
- microservice
- Delegating to a separate microservice.
- Hidden cost
- The more you delegate, the more 'Integration hours' you need: making the external system talk to yours still costs.
Complexity (8 axes, 1–5)
- How it works
- Each axis contributes separately. Many medium axes weigh more than a single high one, but without exploding (there's a dampening factor).
- 1 / 3 / 5
- 1 = trivial, 3 = moderate, 5 = very complex on that axis.
Skill (gap)
- required vs available
- How much is needed vs how much you master. If more is required than you know, hours go up (you need to learn).
- If you're already proficient
- available ≥ required: no penalty. It doesn't scale below: 'I'm overqualified' doesn't save hours.
Risk
- Not a task
- It's an uncertain event ('the DB breaks'), estimated roughly. Lives separately from the task tree.
- Probability
- How likely the problem is to occur as-is, 1–5.
- Impact
- How much it costs if it happens, 1–5 (converted to hours by coefficients).
- Mitigation hours
- Hours you spend specifically to make the risk less likely (e.g. a validation prototype). Always paid, because you actually spend them.
- Resid. prob
- The probability that REMAINS after spending mitigation hours. Start at 3, mitigate, drops to 2.
- Risk hours
- Resid. prob × impact + Mitigation hours. A buffer for what slips through, plus the prevention work.
- Include
- ON: hours are factored into the price. OFF: kept out, monetized later as fixes. Your call.
Strategy (doesn't affect hours)
- What it does
- Moves only the PRICE, not the work. 3 across the board = neutral.
- Downward
- Project that benefits you (portfolio, reuse, future work, easy client) → discount.
- Upward
- Risk premium (high expected budget) → markup.
- Multiplier < 1
- Overall discount. > 1 = markup.
Price
- Chain
- Total hours × rate = subtotal → × strategy → − discount → + margin = final price.
- Effective rate
- Final price ÷ total hours. What you're actually earning per hour.
Work breakdown
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Estimate
- Nominal hours
- 32.0 h
- Risk hours
- 0.0 h
- Total hours
- 32.0 h
- Rate
- 60 €/h
- Subtotal
- 1920 €
- Strategy multiplier
- 1.000
- Discount
- 0%
- Margin
- 15%
Final price2208 €
Strategy
Trust
30.0%
Client competence
30.0%
Communication ease
30.0%
Success probability
30.0%
Expected budget
30.0%
Portfolio interest
30.0%
Commercial interest
30.0%
Future work probability
30.0%
Webround reuse
30.0%
Price multiplier1.000
Risks
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