Montpelier Consulting

I delivered a $10,000 engagement, solo, in a few weeks. Fixed price, no surprises.

Montpelier Consulting scopes the work, prices it as one fixed number before anything starts, and delivers on schedule — the same way it closed and delivered a $10,000 contract earlier this year.

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The one proof point this page stands on: a $10,000 engagement, delivered solo, direct with the client, over a few weeks. No other client names, testimonials, or case studies exist yet — none appear below until they're real.

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Two ways to get an answer this week

Every engagement on this page runs on a fixed price for a bounded, written scope — not an hourly rate. You know the total before work starts. If the work runs longer than estimated, that risk sits with Montpelier Consulting, not with you.

Technical Working Session

$250

60-90 minutes, live, same week

One technical question: a code review, an architecture gut-check, a debugging second opinion, or a go/no-go read on an approach. 3-5 written follow-up bullets after the call. No proposal, no contract to sign.

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Scoped Fix-It Sprint

$400

1-2 business days

One narrowly defined, already-diagnosed task: a bug fix, a small script, a one-endpoint integration, a config or deployment fix. You already know what you need fixed; this skips discovery.

Start a fix-it sprint

What this practice takes on

Four practice areas, each labeled by what actually backs it

Every area below carries an honest marker: Delivered means a real paid engagement exists; Demonstrated means a real design artifact exists but no paid engagement used it yet; Learning track means Adam is actively building the capability. Full detail on each marker and area lives in positioning.md and services/ in this repository.

Delivered

Software engineering & presales

Defined-scope development work and technical presales support — scoping, demos, and proposal support for a buyer's own sales process. The core of the delivered $10,000 engagement.

Demonstrated

AI infrastructure & RAG

Hybrid retrieval, citation-grounded answer generation, streaming, and eval harnesses. Backed by a real architecture designed for a 2026 Upwork proposal — see the sample below.

Demonstrated

Agent orchestration backends

Multi-agent request routing, tool use, streaming coordination, and named failure handling (retry, fall back, fail over, escalate). Same source architecture as the RAG work above.

Learning track

Legacy modernization bridge

Reading and bridging RPG II, IBM midrange, and Novell NetWare systems into a form modern tooling can call. A capability in active development — not sold as years of production delivery experience.

Once the scope grows

Fixed-price packages

Each package has a written scope document and a fixed price agreed before work starts. Anything outside the written scope becomes a separate, priced change order.

Package	What it covers	Timeline	Price
Discovery & Audit Sprint	A full review plus a written, prioritized report	3-5 business days	$800
Build Sprint	One defined feature, integration, or build	2-3 weeks	$4,000
Defined-Scope Project	A larger, multi-part deliverable with its own scope document	4-6 weeks	$8,000
Monthly Delivery Block	A recurring 20 hours/month for ongoing work	Ongoing	$1,400/month

AI infrastructure, agent orchestration, and legacy-bridge engagements often warrant a different rate than the general formula above — see rates.md in this repository. Ask directly if your project fits one of the four practice areas.

Sample work

Illustrative capability demonstrations

Every sample below is a fictional engagement built to demonstrate approach and technique — synthetic data, an invented client, clearly labeled. None of these are real client deliveries. Each ZIP includes the mock brief, a project plan, architecture diagrams, and runnable sample code.

AI infrastructure & RAG

Regulatory intelligence RAG platform

Hybrid retrieval over a regulation corpus, citation-grounded answers, and a confidence floor that refuses to answer instead of hallucinating a citation.

Download sample (.zip)

Legacy modernization bridge

RPG II policy system to REST API

Reading a synthetic fixed-width legacy file and bridging it to a modern API layer, with named failure handling for timeouts and malformed records.

Download sample (.zip)

Agent orchestration

Multi-agent reliability audit

A task router with retry, fallback, failover, and named escalation paths, hardened against tool-use failures and timeouts.

Download sample (.zip)

Inference optimization

Task-aware model routing & cost model

A before/after cost comparison between naive single-model routing and task-aware routing with a budget-threshold fallback.

Download sample (.zip)

How delivery works

A client is not waiting on one person's calendar

A delivery partner delivers the actual work for 80% of the contract rate, so Adam is not the single point of delivery capacity — work continues on schedule even when Adam is not the one at the keyboard. This is one delivery partner, not a bench of engineers or an agency.

STEP 1

Scope

Adam scopes the work with you and writes the fixed price and boundary into a proposal before anything starts.

STEP 2

Deliver

The delivery partner executes against the written scope. Adam stays the single point of contact throughout.

STEP 3

Accept

You review against the acceptance criteria in the proposal. Anything outside scope becomes a separate, priced change order.

Questions

Before you ask

What if the work runs longer than estimated?

The price does not change. Montpelier Consulting absorbs the difference inside the agreed scope. Anything genuinely outside that scope becomes a change order with its own price, agreed in writing before it starts.

Why should I trust a practice with one delivered engagement?

Because that is what's actually true, and it's stated plainly instead of padded with invented case studies. The $10,000 engagement is real and checkable; the sample work above is clearly labeled as illustrative, not as a client roster.

Do you have real experience in legacy systems like RPG II or NetWare?

Not production delivery experience, not yet — that area is labeled a learning track on this page for exactly that reason. What exists today is real study material and an illustrative sample of the bridge approach. Ask directly if this matters for your project.

How fast can you start?

A working session or fix-it sprint can start this week. A fixed-price package starts once the scope document is signed and the deposit clears.