Thinklens supports four engagement shapes for agencies, freelancers, and businesses — picked to match how clear the scope is, how long the work runs, and (for agencies) how your client is billing you. The right model is decided before SOW drafting, not after.
A senior in-house data hire — salary before benefits and overhead, a 10–12 week search before day one, and a seat that stays on your payroll whether the pipeline is full or not.
Senior, pre-vetted expertise on keyboard in 1–2 weeks. You pay for engaged time only — and it stops the day the work stops. Rate cards on the first call, always.
Each model is priced and structured differently. We'll tell you which one fits before you draft the SOW — including when none of them does and we should walk away.
Best for evolving scope — discovery work, performance tuning, ongoing platform support. Weekly status, monthly invoicing, fixed daily rates per consultant level. We track hours transparently and you can pause or extend at month boundaries.
Best for well-defined deliverables — dashboard builds, report migrations, defined data-cleanup sprints. Scope locked in the SOW, milestone-based invoicing, change-orders for anything outside scope. Predictable for both sides.
Our most common shape. We operate as the silent offshore extension under your existing client MSA — your client never sees us, branding stays yours, invoicing flows agency-to-client. Long-running engagements with rolling SOWs underneath.
Short or specialist engagements — a named senior consultant on a defined contract, sometimes engaged direct, sometimes through your agency. Useful for specialist disciplines (e.g. TIBCO Spotfire IronPython, SAP MM data harmonization) where you don't have the bench depth.
The process is short by design. Most engagements move from first call to consultants-on-keyboard in 7-14 days.
Your engagement context, the client deal shape, the skill mix needed, and the rough timeline. We tell you upfront if it's a fit or if you need a different kind of partner — no pitch-deck theatre.
We draft a one-page scope, propose 1-3 consultant CVs matched to the skill mix, and you optionally interview them yourselves. Rates and timeline come with the CVs, not after.
SOW signed under your existing MSA (or a fresh agreement for new partners), NDA executed if not already, and consultants on keyboard typically within 1-2 weeks. Pre-vetted skill sets — Power BI, Tableau, SQL, ETL Testing, Technical BA — can start within 5 business days.
If pricing or rate cards aren't shared on the first call, walk away from that conversation — including ours. Transparency from minute one is how silent-partner engagements stay clean.
Fully registered in India (GST, PAN, IEC). Transparent contracts and audit-ready processes. A reliable offshore team with proven delivery — the three things every overseas partner wants on day one.
Request our compliance packAn unfilled seat isn't neutral — every week it stays empty is a slipped deadline or a client conversation you'd rather not have. Tell us the gap before it costs you one, and we'll line up the right senior consultant, remotely, with fast ramp-up.
An overflow crunch, a long-term mandate, ongoing support, or training — tell us what you need and we'll move fast.
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