One pain, diagnosed and fixed, in 2 weeks, for $1,500. Three buyer tiers below — pick the sentence that is already true about you. This is a project with a deliverable and a price, not an hourly engagement: no timesheet, no availability to check, no performance clause. You pay for the report, not for a result.
Same price, same two weeks, same boundaries. The only thing that changes is which pain gets the ten days. Pick the sentence that is already true about you.
Your simulation or inspection tooling reports numbers you cannot reconcile, and nobody can say which one is wrong.
Engineering leads at a 20-250 person supplier, Tier-3 machine shop, or assembly plant who already suspect their simulation or inspection tooling is lying to them.
What you get to check before the balance: You get the ranked fix list with the arithmetic shown, and one figure from your own data that you can check against your existing records. If it does not reconcile, that is a finding, not a failure.
Not included: ERP/MES integration, production deployment, headcount, or on-site work beyond day one.
You quote from memory because your historical job data is not in a form you can ask questions of, and you find out a job lost money after you already shipped it.
Owners and production managers at 5-50 person job shops running mixed CNC work, who quote from memory and lose money on the jobs they misjudge.
What you get to check before the balance: Your last 20 completed jobs, re-costed at your own burden rates, with the total you did not know you had lost. If the numbers say you are fine, you have lost 20 minutes and I will say so.
Not included: CAM or ERP integration, nesting software, shop-floor hardware, quoting-system replacement, or a per-seat licence.
Fault codes come in faster than anyone can triage them, so severity gets guessed, and a brake code gets the same attention as an emissions code.
Fleet maintenance managers at 20-400 vehicle fleets running mixed makes, who get fault codes faster than they can decide what to do about them.
What you get to check before the balance: Your own code history, sorted into stop-the-vehicle versus drive-to-service, with the parts and labour time for each band. If a band is ambiguous from the codes alone, I say so rather than inventing a severity.
Not included: Telematics hardware or subscription, live vehicle monitoring, warranty decisions, parts procurement, or a regulatory compliance opinion.
Not included, and I will say so in writing: ERP/MES integration, production deployment, headcount, or on-site work beyond day one. That boundary is what makes it 2 weeks and one price.
I publish these because a technical buyer will find them anyway, and because the same person who could have claimed seventeen finished vehicles instead built the system that proves none of them are finished. That judgement is the thing you are paying for.
By check, made payable to me and mailed to the address below. No bank account, no payment platform, no vendor onboarding on your side.
How the money reaches me, and what it costs you: nothing.
Terms: $750 on signature before work starts, balance $750 net 7 on delivery. A 1.5% monthly charge applies to anything past due. If that deposit does not land, nothing starts — that is the entire risk control and I will not negotiate it.
A bank account exists and it is deposit-only, so the full $1,500 arrives with nothing deducted. Payee: Schubert Motors LLC. Routing and account numbers are on the invoice issued to you — they are never published on a web page. Ask me for the invoice and they come with it.
Confirm the payee name with me by email before you send. A transfer whose name does not match the account is rejected by the bank. My invoice and my W-9 carry the same name — ask for it and match it character for character.
Send straight to the app for a deposit or any smaller amount. No fee on my side, no waiting for a cheque to clear, and it reaches me today.
| App | Handle |
|---|---|
| Chime | $Evan-Schubert-1 |
| Venmo | @evoschube |
| Cash App | $evoschube |
Confirm the handle with me by email before you send. App payments are instant and irreversible — no cheque to stop, no chargeback to dispute. A handle is not identity: anyone can type one. One line of confirmation protects us both.
Owner-provided handles, not yet independently verified. Keep the payment memo short or blank — a long invoice memo can be filtered.
This is a project with a deliverable, not a headcount fill. No requisition needs to be open, no agency needs to be involved, and no one has to be recruited. If your process requires a vendor form, a W-9 or an insurance certificate, that is normal and here is exactly what you need.
| W-9 | Blank IRS Form W-9 (Rev. March 2024): download. Print, fill, sign. Line 1 and line 2 must match the payee name on the invoice exactly or AP will hold it. The TIN line is blank on purpose — give them only the one your AP confirms. |
| Invoice | invoice.pdf. One invoice, one number, net terms as stated. Cheque, or instant app payment at no fee. |
| Engagement letter | engagement-letter.pdf. The whole agreement: scope, price, what is excluded, and signature blocks. No separate SOW. |
| Vendor / supplier form | Not published here, and that is the honest answer — I do not have your vendor system. Send it to me and I fill it in. |
| Insurance certificate | Not held. No claim is made that any exists. If your AP requires one for a $1,500 engagement, ask before you sign and we will see if it is actually required. |
| PO / reference | Give me the number and it goes on the invoice, so AP can match it. |
The most common reason a first invoice from a new vendor is rejected is a name mismatch between the cheque payee, the invoice remit-to block, and W-9 line 1. All three here are generated from one value and cannot disagree.
The W-9 is the blank IRS form, unfilled. Fill it in, sign it, and send it with the engagement letter. Most companies' AP departments will not process a first invoice without one. The invoice PDF is what the cheque gets written against — print it, fill the blanks, and put the invoice number in the cheque memo line.