Engage Maitre

Priced per opening. Like every other line in the development budget.

One fee per site assessed. It falls as volume rises, the turnaround is contractual, and it is invoiced in arrears against a delivered report. There is no platform, no seat count, and nothing to roll out.

Fee per site

Volume is counted on sites assessed, not sites opened. You are paying to find out — including, and especially, on the ones you walk away from.

1–4 sites a year15 business days: $25,000per site; Site by site. No term, no minimum, no forecast.
5–11 sites a year12 business days: $18,000per site; 12-month term. Tier set on your forecast, trued up at renewal.
12+ sites a year10 business days: $12,000per site; Standing arrangement. Every site you consider, scored before LOI.

Fees are per site and cover the walk, the engineering, the report, the appendix, and the one-pager. Travel inside the San Antonio–Austin corridor is included. Nothing on this page is priced against your buildout or your rent roll.

Your sites, scored before LOI. Every time.

Under a standing arrangement you send the address the day it goes on the consideration list. Ten business days later you have a score, a buildout range, a schedule, and the name of the engineer who signed it — before the LOI is drafted, before the architect is engaged, before anyone has committed anything that is hard to walk back.

That is the whole arrangement. It is not a subscription to software. It is the same diligence you already buy on soils and environmental, run on the one system that decides whether a restaurant can exist in a box.

The batch you just read

Sites scored at the standing fee: $60,000
Sites stopped before LOI: 2 of 5
Buildout that never entered a pro forma: $1,413,000–$1,755,000

The arithmetic is not the argument — a ratio that wide is suspicious on its face and you should treat it that way. The argument is the date. You found Live Oak in July. The other way of finding Live Oak is in March, with a signed LOI, an architect on retainer, and a GC number nobody wants to take to committee.

This does not replace your development team.

Your development director owns the deal, the site selection, and the pro forma. None of that moves. Nothing here scores your team, reports on your team, or goes over anyone’s head — the only thing scored is a box.

What moves is throughput at the top of the funnel. Scoring forty sites a year is two headcount, or it is a line item. It is not something your team does badly. It is something they do instead of the work you hired them for.

Your GC’s preconstruction team prices what you have tied up. We price what you are considering. Those are different jobs, different weeks, and different levels of commitment. Asking preconstruction to price a site you have not signed spends a favour, and you still wait three weeks for a number they hedged because they were doing you a favour.

Every finding carries the engineer of record’s name and the method that produced it. Your team audits it — the technical appendix exists for that and for nothing else. When they disagree with a number, they win. They know your market and your standards. We know the space.

And nobody here talks to your broker, your landlord, or your GC unless you put us on the call.

Terms

Turnaround: By tier, from the date of site access — not from the date of the PO. A missed SLA credits the fee for that site in full.
Site access: One walk with the property manager or the listing broker. Ninety minutes. We schedule it; you do not need to be there.
Deliverable: The assessment, the technical appendix, and the one-pager. Web and PDF, per site. Yours — hand it to a lender, a GC, or a tenant without asking us.
Concept changes: One re-run per site at no charge. A concept change re-runs the equipment schedule, and the schedule is the assessment; a score for a different concept is a different score and we will not pretend otherwise.
Engineer of record: Named, licensed in the state, on every report. Available to your development team and your GC on a call, at no charge, for the life of the deal.
Term and notice: Twelve months on the program and standing tiers. Sixty days' notice. No auto-escalator.
Volume true-up: Tier is set at signing against your forecast and trued up at twelve months. Come in over your band and the difference is credited; come in under and it is invoiced.
Invoicing: Monthly in arrears, net 30. Per site delivered. No retainer.
Cancellation: A site pulled before the walk is no charge. After the walk, forty percent — the engineer has already been on site.
Exclusivity: None, in either direction. Run our number against your GC's whenever you like. We would rather you did.
Your pipeline: Yours. Nothing you send is published, syndicated, aggregated, or shown to another client — including the addresses you did not pursue.

These are the terms, not an opening position. There is no master-services negotiation waiting behind them and no discount for signing this quarter.

Send the next batch.

The pipeline you just read was five sites. The arrangement is every site, every quarter, scored before the LOI — so that the two that would have blown the pro forma never make it into one. Send the next list of addresses and it starts on the first walk.