Fee-for-service or embedded FTE
Model A
Fee-for-service
A defined study with a defined price. You send the images and the endpoint definition; we send back the data package on an agreed date.
- Fixed scope, fixed cost, fixed delivery date
- Best when the work is bounded and occasional
- No commitment beyond the current study
- Quoted after a short feasibility review
Model B
Full-time equivalent
One or more of our scientists dedicated to your programme, working to your priorities and inside your planning cycle, without you carrying the recruitment or the training.
- Named scientists, continuity across studies
- Scales up or down at agreed notice periods
- Direct contact with your project leads
- Best when demand is continuous but hiring is slow
How an embedded engagement works
- WEEK 0Scoping
We agree the number of FTEs, the seniority mix, the term, notice periods and how work will be prioritised between your teams.
- WEEK 1–2Onboarding
Named scientists are assigned and briefed on your assays, panels, naming conventions and reporting formats. Access and data-transfer routes are set up.
- ONGOINGDelivery
Your scientists work your queue. Standing check-ins, shared tracking, and direct contact with project leads rather than through an account manager.
- QUARTERLYReview and adjust
Capacity, throughput and priorities reviewed. Headcount can move up or down at the agreed notice.
Minimum FTE term
6 months
Allocation granularity
0.5 FTE
Notice to change
60 days
Onboarding
2 weeks
Which one is right for you
If you can name the studies you need analysed over the next six months, fee-for-service is usually cheaper and simpler. If you cannot — because the queue keeps changing and the real problem is that you have no one to put on it — the FTE model will cost less and frustrate you less.
Short of image analysis capacity?
Tell us what your queue looks like over the next two quarters and we will propose the cheaper of the two models, even when that is not the bigger contract.