Engagement fees and hourly rates are published in CAD, on this page, in plain numbers. Three reasons. One: a prospect should never have to ask a stranger what something costs. Two: the AI engine that powers every CPP analysis is faster than a hand-built deliverable, and that efficiency advantage is passed through in fixed-fee tiers — not absorbed as margin. Three: by the time you book the 15-minute call, you already know whether the practice fits your budget.
Honesty note: every fixed-fee tier is scoped at the preliminary assessment, in writing, before larger fees commit. If the schedule is simpler than expected, the quote comes in lower. If it's more complex, the range and the reason are explained before a single hour is billed.
Every tier produces a defined deliverable set. Pricing reflects the realistic range across small private projects and complex multi-window industrial schedules — the preliminary assessment scopes any larger engagement before it commits.
Posted hourly rates in CAD for ad-hoc consulting, expert report preparation, deposition and testimony, and travel. Billed in 15-minute increments against a written engagement letter.
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Consulting / analytical work
Ad-hoc analysis outside the fixed-fee tiers — schedule reviews, second opinions, claims triage, internal advisory.
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$225/hr CAD |
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Expert report preparation
Formal expert reports for litigation and arbitration. Includes signed certifications and the underlying engine output.
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$275/hr CAD |
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Testimony and deposition
In-person or remote testimony, deposition appearance, expert cross-examination preparation. Four-hour minimum for depositions, prepaid.
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$350/hr CAD |
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Travel time
Door-to-door travel for site visits, depositions, and hearings outside the southern Ontario region. Mileage and out-of-pocket expenses billed at cost.
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$125/hr CAD |
Every fixed-fee tier publishes a range because no two schedules are the same. The preliminary assessment locks the number — these are the inputs that determine where in the range it lands.
Windows analysis runs across the full update chain. A schedule with three monthly updates is materially less work than one with twenty-four — every update is its own forward pass and chain-diff.
A 600-activity commercial schedule analyzes faster than a 12,000-activity industrial mega-program. Activity count, calendar count, and constraint density all push complexity up.
Each delay event needs its own causation pairing, contemporaneous evidence pull, and per-window quantification. Three events is half the analytical work of twelve.
Some engagements require both windows analysis (MIP 3.3) and collapsed as-built (MIP 3.8) for AACE 29R-03 compliance. Both are included in the Full Forensic and EOT tiers — the requirement only affects scope at the upper end of the range.
If the engagement is heading toward arbitration or trial, expert report preparation and deposition / testimony hours are billed separately at the published hourly rates. The forensic deliverable itself is unchanged.
Most engagements run remotely — XER files and contemporaneous documents are delivered electronically. Site visits and out-of-region appearances bill travel time at $125/hr CAD plus expenses at cost.
There is no premium tier for reproducibility. The audit-trail panel that backs the deliverable is part of every engagement, by default — because a finding nobody can re-derive is not a finding.
The Schedule Health Check engagement above is a paid, written deliverable. The free in-browser Schedule Health Report is a separate thing — and it covers most casual schedule reviews on its own. Don't pay for what you can run yourself.
Drop two XER files (baseline + current) and get a self-contained DCMA-14 + GAO 16-89G + CPP Quality Overlay dashboard in roughly ten seconds. Files never touch our disk. The report is yours to keep, email, or attach to a status meeting. If the free report tells you everything you need, no engagement is required — that's the point.
Bring the situation, not the schedule. Fifteen minutes is enough to figure out which tier fits, what the realistic budget looks like, and whether the practice is the right match for the dispute.