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Set Pieces · fixed scope, fixed price

Nine things you can actually buy.

Productised consulting for the moments most teams find themselves in. Each one is a defined output, a defined timeline and a defined price, named before the work starts. No “let us scope you” forms and no open-ended day rates.

In short

A Set Piece is a fixed-scope, fixed-price consulting engagement from Product Pieces with a named deliverable and a named timeline. There are nine, from The Sanity Check at £3,500 to The MVP at £18,000, covering roadmapping, prototyping, UI design, MVP scoping, backlog, quality, contract review, coaching and independent build assurance. The price is agreed upfront, maps cleanly to a purchase order, and does not move unless the scope changes in writing.

Range
£3,500–£18,000
Timeline
1 to 12 weeks
How it is priced
Fixed, named upfront
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The nine, and what each one leaves behind.

SP-09Set Piece
Build Assurance Review.
An independent read on whether your outsourced build is actually on track. A red, amber, green verdict across scope, pace, quality and spend, the risks ranked, and what to do next.
From £6,0002 weeks
SP-01Set Piece
The Roadmap.
A twelve-month product roadmap with the strategic narrative, the options weighed and the sequencing logic written down. Owner-friendly.
From £15,0002–3 weeks
SP-02Set Piece
The Prototype.
A clickable, testable prototype of the core flow. Enough to put in front of real users or investors and learn before a line of code gets written.
From £6,0001–2 weeks
SP-03Set Piece
High-Fidelity Designs.
Production-ready UI for the screens that matter: components, states and a clean handoff your engineers can build straight from.
From £9,5002–3 weeks
SP-04Set Piece
The MVP.
MVP scope, build plan, success metrics, a build-versus-buy call and partner recommendations.
From £18,0002–3 weeks
SP-05Set Piece
The Backlog.
A reshaped, prioritised, ready-to-work backlog. Definition of ready and done, and a sprint cadence proposed.
From £7,5001–2 weeks
SP-06Set Piece
The Quality Review.
A quality audit, a ranked risk register and a practical ninety-day fix plan. The honest read on your release confidence.
From £8,5001–2 weeks
SP-07Set Piece
The Sanity Check.
An independent review of a development partner's quote: credentials, tech stack, cost and scope. Save the money before the expensive mistake.
From £3,500~1 week
SP-08Set Piece
The Coaching Programme.
Structured coaching for one to three named product people. Measurable goals at the start, a review at the end.
From £12,5008–12 weeks

Not a Set Piece, but on the same ladder.

Two of the most-used things here are not Set Pieces at all. The Diagnostic is free and takes twenty minutes, and it exists to work out which of the nine you need, including when the answer is none of them. Founder Sessions are £150 an hour for founders building the product themselves, where the need is judgement rather than a deliverable.

At the other end, the Fractional CPO is ongoing rather than fixed scope: senior product ownership one or two days a week from £2,000 a month, equity-friendly on qualifying engagements. The whole ladder and every price is published on one page.

How a Set Piece actually runs.

  • Scope agreed and priced before anything starts. You know the number, the deliverable and the end date before you commit to any of them.
  • Senior day one. The person in the room is the person doing the work. No graduates learning on your time and no junior hand-off after the pitch.
  • One accountable owner. Where a partner delivers part of it, engineering through Atomise or brand through CGL Agency, Product Pieces stays accountable for the whole thing.
  • It ends. A Set Piece finishes and leaves you with the output. There is no rolling engagement unless you ask for one.
  • It can end in a no. A Quality Review that says do not ship, or a Sanity Check that says do not sign, has done its job.
— Common questions

Questions about Set Pieces.

What is a Set Piece?

A Set Piece is a productised consulting engagement with a defined output, a defined timeline and a defined price, named before the work starts. There are nine, from The Sanity Check at £3,500 to The MVP at £18,000. You buy the outcome rather than a number of days, and the price does not move unless the scope changes in writing.

How is this different from hiring a consultant by the day?

A day rate buys you time and leaves the risk of how much time with you. A Set Piece buys a specific finished thing and puts that risk on Product Pieces. Day rates do exist here, £950 to £2,000 for senior people, but they are for ongoing work rather than for a defined deliverable.

Which Set Piece do I need?

That is what the free Diagnostic is for: twenty minutes, no fee, and it can end with a recommendation to buy nothing. As a rough guide, before a contract is signed start with The Scope or The Sanity Check; during a build that worries you, the Build Assurance Review; before building at all, The Prototype or The MVP.

Can Set Pieces be combined?

Yes, and they often are, usually in sequence rather than at once. A common path is The Prototype, then The MVP, then ongoing product ownership. Each is still priced and delivered as its own piece, so you can stop after any of them.

Who actually does the work?

The person in the room is the person doing the work. Six Pieces are delivered by the in-house bench and six through named partners, engineering through Atomise and brand through CGL Agency among them, with Product Pieces remaining the one accountable owner across all of it.

What if the Set Piece finds that I should not proceed?

Then it has done its job and it was the cheapest money you spent that year. A Quality Review that says do not ship, or a Sanity Check that says do not sign, saves more than it costs. That outcome is not a failed engagement.

Which one do you actually need?

Twenty minutes, free, and it can end with a recommendation to buy nothing at all. That happens often enough to be worth saying out loud.

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