The Strategic Advisory Call is a $1,250 single-engagement product from Stan Consulting LLC. The format is a 90-minute synchronous call with one question worked through end-to-end, followed by a written brief and a decision tree delivered within 48 hours. It is the entry point in the F7 Project & Advisory Lane. Advisory only. No implementation labor included.
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Briefing
The Strategic Advisory Call is a single 90-minute engagement. One question is named in advance, read in advance, and worked through end-to-end on the call. A written brief with the recommendation, the supporting reasoning, and a decision tree follows within 48 hours. The fee is $1,250. The deliverable is the brief, not the conversation. The call is the working session that produces it. No implementation labor is included. No retainer is implied. No follow-on commitment is built in.
A call is the format. The brief is the product.
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Each scene names an operator with one question already named, decision authority already in hand, and the appetite to act on a written recommendation. If one of these matches the situation, the call is the right product.
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The operator can describe the decision in two or three sentences. The trade-offs have been turned over internally for two to four weeks. The team has split. A written third-party brief is what breaks the tie. The decision is real, the timing is constrained, and committing to a recurring relationship is not what is needed.
Common pattern · pre-launch decisions02
Three finalists, an offer letter waiting, a contract in legal review. The internal champions disagree. A 90-minute working session with a written recommendation produces a clean tie-break, captures the reasoning for the record, and resolves the question without inviting an ongoing engagement. The brief is the artifact that gets cited in the next executive review.
Vendor selection · hiring decisions03
One channel is producing well below benchmark. Reallocating to the next-best channel has been on the agenda for three quarterly reviews. The decision keeps deferring because the second-order implications are unclear. A 90-minute structured working session unblocks the call. The written brief documents what was decided, why, and what the rollback condition looks like.
Channel reallocation · budget reset04
The operator has already formed a preferred direction. The question is whether the reasoning holds under outside review. The $1,250 advisory call is the pressure test: a sharp 90-minute working session, a written brief that either confirms the direction with reinforced reasoning or names the specific failure mode the internal version missed.
Pressure test · second look03
The format is fixed. Every Strategic Advisory Call moves through the same four artifacts. The scope of each adapts to the question; the structure does not.
01 · Pre-call
The operator submits a written intake at booking. The principal reads it before the call. The first 90 seconds of the call are not spent on context. The full 90 minutes is spent on the question itself.
02 · Live
One video call. One question. The structure is consistent: 10 minutes confirming the question, 60 minutes working it through, 20 minutes naming the recommendation and the rollback condition. Recorded with consent.
03 · Post-call
A written document delivered within 48 hours of the call. The recommendation, the supporting reasoning, the trade-offs considered, and the conditions that would change the recommendation. Three to five pages, structured for re-reading.
04 · Post-call
A one-page decision tree attached to the brief. Each branch names the trigger condition, the next action, and the owner. Designed to be cited in the next executive review without rebuilding context.
Operating principle
A 90-minute call without a written brief is conversation. A 90-minute call with one is a decision.
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The format is sized for a single decision worked end-to-end. Two questions in 90 minutes leaves both half-finished. Operators with multiple linked questions are routed to Decision Architecture or Project Consulting before payment is taken.
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The synchronous time is the working session. The written brief is the artifact the team reads in week two. A clear recommendation in writing produces a different decision quality than a memorable conversation produces.
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The call produces a recommendation. It does not produce implementation labor, deck builds, sequenced project plans, or ongoing review cycles. Operators looking for those move into the F3 retainers or the F7.3 project format. The line is held on purpose.
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The process is the same on every engagement. Booking confirms the slot, intake structures the question, the call works it through, the brief lands within 48 hours.
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Submit the intake form on this page. Confirmation lands within one business day with a calendar link, the engagement letter, and the $1,250 invoice. The slot is held when the invoice clears.
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The operator submits a structured pre-call brief at least 24 hours before the call. Question, context, decision owners, options on the table, internal direction so far. Read in advance, not on the call.
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One video call. The agenda is fixed: question confirmation, working session, recommendation framing, rollback conditions. Recorded with consent. The working artifacts produced on the call go into the brief.
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The follow-up document is delivered within 48 hours: recommendation, reasoning, decision tree, recording link, transcript. Engagement closes on delivery. No upsell. No implicit retainer. No follow-up sequence.
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This call is for
This call is not for
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The fee is a fixed $1,250. It covers the working session and the written record around it. Everything below is included; nothing else is implied.
A structured pre-call template the operator completes 24 hours before the call. Question, context, decision owners, options on the table, internal direction so far. Read by the principal in advance. The opening minutes of the call go to the question, not to context.
Template · 24 hr priorThe working session itself. One video call, one defined question, one recommendation framed by the end. Recorded with consent so the operator can re-listen without rebuilding the conversation from notes alone.
Recorded · consent-basedThe primary deliverable. Three to five pages structured around the recommendation: the call itself, the reasoning, the trade-offs considered, the conditions that would change the recommendation. Delivered within 48 hours. The artifact the team reads in week two.
3–5 pages · PDFA one-page decision tree attached to the brief. Each branch names the trigger condition, the next action, and the owner. Designed to be cited in the next executive review without rebuilding context. Operators frequently paste it directly into the next board update.
One page · cite-readyA recording of the 90-minute call and a written transcript, both delivered with the follow-up brief. The brief stands alone; the recording and transcript are supporting artifacts so the operator can revisit specific moments without context loss.
MP4 + text transcriptOne short clarifying exchange by email is included in the $1,250 within seven days of brief delivery. It is for clarifying what the brief already says, not for extending the engagement. Wider follow-up is its own engagement, not absorbed into the call.
7-day window · clarification only07
The fee is fixed and published. It is set against four constraints, not against an hourly rate or a discount target. The pricing logic is the same logic that places the rest of the F7 lane.
$1,250
Fixed engagement fee
One number. One engagement. Above the diagnostic floor in F1, below the architectural ceiling in F7.2. The position is deliberate, not negotiable.
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The $999 Conversion Second Opinion is a written diagnostic with no synchronous time. The Strategic Advisory Call is a different product: a working session with the principal plus a written brief. $1,250 reflects the synchronous component the diagnostic does not include.
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F7.2 Decision Architecture is $2,500 for a wider engagement that resolves multiple linked questions. $1,250 is exactly half. When the question turns out to be wider than 90 minutes during intake review, the upgrade path to F7.2 is one step, not a renegotiation.
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$1,250 over 90 minutes of synchronous time produces an hourly equivalent of roughly $833 per hour. That sits inside the band Stan Consulting commands on similar advisory engagements with comparable operators. The price is anchored, not improvised.
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Each F7 tier is priced to be visibly different from the next, so operators self-select on scope rather than on negotiation. $1,250 is what one defined question costs. $2,500 is what an architecture engagement costs. The gap is the product, not the friction.
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The Strategic Advisory Call is a single 90-minute synchronous engagement with one defined question worked end-to-end. The price is $1,250. A written follow-up brief and a decision tree are delivered within 48 hours of the call. The engagement is advisory only. No implementation labor, no retainer, and no follow-on commitment is included.
The fixed price is $1,250. It covers the structured intake brief read in advance, the 90-minute synchronous call itself with the principal, the written follow-up brief delivered within 48 hours, the one-page decision tree, the call recording, and a written transcript. One short clarification exchange by email is included in the seven days following brief delivery. Implementation work and follow-on retainers are not part of the fee.
One specific decision the operator can describe in two or three sentences. Channel reallocation choices, a hiring versus agency decision, a positioning shift before a launch, an attribution model swap, a build-versus-buy call, vendor selection between three known finalists. The format is built for a single decision worked end-to-end, not a strategy review across the whole operation.
The F3 Consulting Engagements are recurring monthly retainers from $1,500 to $12,000 per month. They are for operators who want ongoing operator depth across multiple decisions, projects, and weeks. The Strategic Advisory Call is a single 90-minute engagement at $1,250 for one defined question. If the operator wants ongoing partnership, the F3 retainers are the right product. If the operator wants one decision resolved cleanly without a recurring relationship, the call is the right product. Both can co-exist in different quarters; one is not the entry to the other.
The intake brief is reviewed before payment is taken. If the scope is wider than a single decision, the engagement is redirected to the right product. Multi-stakeholder strategy projects move to F7.3 Project Consulting, scoped after a separate scoping call. Architectural decisions with multiple linked sub-questions move to F7.2 Decision Architecture at $2,500. The advisory call is sized for one defined question; protecting that scope protects the quality of the brief.
The call is recorded with the operator's consent and a written transcript is included in the materials sent within 48 hours after the call. The written follow-up brief is the primary deliverable and stands on its own; the recording and transcript are supporting artifacts so the operator can revisit specific moments without rebuilding context.
The call can be rescheduled up to 24 hours before the scheduled time at no fee. Cancellations made more than 48 hours before the scheduled time receive a full refund. Inside 48 hours the fee is non-refundable, because the slot has already been protected and the principal has begun reviewing the intake brief in advance of the call.
The call is run by the principal at Stan Consulting LLC. The team has operated inside funded marketing organizations at Series A through C scale across multiple verticals. The recommendation in the brief is the principal's, not a software-generated assessment or an AI-summarized output. The fee covers principal time at $1,250 for the engagement.
Begin the booking
The intake collects what the call needs to scope the question correctly: who is asking, what the decision is, what the timing constraints are, and what the team has already considered. The $1,250 invoice is sent on confirmation; the slot holds when the invoice clears.
If the intake review shows the scope is wider than 90 minutes, the engagement is redirected to F7.2 Decision Architecture or F7.3 Project Consulting before payment is taken, with a written note on the recommended scope. No fee is collected until fit is confirmed.
F7.1 · Strategic Advisory Call
One call. One written brief. One decision worked through end-to-end and documented for the record. The fee is $1,250. The brief lands within 48 hours of the call. The engagement closes when the brief is delivered.
Book the Call · $1,250 Or write with one specific question first.If the question turns out wider than 90 minutes, the upgrade path to F7.2 Decision Architecture or F7.3 Project Consulting is one written note, not a renegotiation.