Rates & Engagement

Two rates. The entire model.

Most consulting pricing is designed to be negotiated. Ours is designed to be read. One rate for thinking, one rate for doing — across all four pillars. What you see below is the complete economics of working with rethinQ.

$300per hour — Design & Consultation
$150per hour — Execution
The Rate Card

Thinking and doing are different work. We price them honestly.

Every engagement — Growth, Technology, Security, or People — is built from these two rates. Nothing else is hiding behind them.

Design & Consultation

The thinking

We assess before we advise.

$300/ hour CAD
1-hour minimum
  • Executive discovery sessions and structured intake
  • Maturity assessments and scored baselines across any pillar
  • Gap analysis, strategy roadmaps, and prioritization workshops
  • Solution and architecture design before anything is built
  • Vendor evaluation, negotiation strategy, and contract review
  • Ongoing Associate advisory — your single point of accountability
Who does it: a senior rethinQ Associate — a hands-on strategist with real-world execution experience, working for you, not the vendors.
Execution

The doing

We measure before we build. We stay until it sticks.

$150/ hour CAD
2-hour minimum
  • Builds, implementations, integrations, and migrations
  • Campaign delivery, content production, and pipeline operations
  • Security remediation, hardening, and control implementation
  • Assessments delivered in the field — site, system, or team
  • Training, coaching delivery, and program rollout
  • Documentation, dashboards, and handover that sticks
Who does it: a vetted specialist from the rethinQ collective, matched to the task — and because there's no firm overhead to feed, your dollar goes to the person doing the work.

All rates in Canadian dollars, plus GST. After the minimum, time is billed in 30-minute increments. Retainer, managed-service, and fractional executive engagements (CMO, CTO, CISO, CHRO) are scoped individually — built from these same rates, with the structure agreed before work begins.

Across the Four Pillars

Same two rates. Every discipline.

What “thinking” and “doing” look like in each pillar — so you know exactly which rate applies before the work starts.

Growth
Design & Consultation — $300

Growth maturity assessment, revenue strategy, SEO/AEO roadmap, brand positioning, sales process design.

Execution — $150

Website builds, campaign delivery, outbound prospecting, CRM implementation, content production.

Technology
Design & Consultation — $300

Technology maturity scorecard, AI readiness, cloud architecture design, data strategy, vendor advisory.

Execution — $150

Automation builds, integrations, migrations, dashboard development, AI implementation.

Security
Design & Consultation — $300

Cyber and physical risk assessment, compliance gap analysis, incident response design, security roadmap.

Execution — $150

Control implementation, hardening, site assessments in the field, awareness training delivery, tabletop exercises.

People
Design & Consultation — $300

People maturity assessment, org design, leadership pipeline strategy, psychometric program design.

Execution — $150

Assessment deployment, coaching delivery, policy development, engagement program rollout.

Two Ways to Make It Easier

We'd rather you commit because the work is good — but we make it simple.

01

Your first consultation hour comes back

Start with a Design & Consultation session. If the engagement proceeds to execution with rethinQ, your first consultation hour is credited in full against that execution work.

We assess before we advise — and if you act on the assessment, the assessment was free.

$300Credited back
100%Of hour one
02

The Execution Block

For ongoing or multi-task work, prepay a block of ten execution hours at the standard rate. Hours are drawn down as work is delivered, with a clean running ledger — and they're yours to use across the entire year.

Built for clients who know the work is coming and want the admin out of the way.

$1,50010-hour block
$150Per hour
12 moTo use it

You've seen the whole price. Now bring us the problem.

One conversation with an Associate will tell you which rate applies, how many hours it honestly takes, and whether we're the right fit at all.

Ready to rethinQ your strategy?

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Stay curious & rethinQ your potential.