Can I build a study on this filing?
You are running a study and the first three weeks go to assembly: finding the peer set, cleaning the filings, rebuilding the model, pulling the census tables. None of it is the work you were hired for and none of it is what the client is paying to read.
We build that layer once, against your method, and hand it over with your name on it.
On a fixed-fee study the assembly comes out of margin. On an hourly one it comes out of how many studies a team can run in a year. Either way it is the same work, done again, on every engagement.