Our Commitment
Five phases. Each ends in a signature.
Every Mactores engagement runs through five phases. Each phase has a named exit criterion the customer signs. Engagements close on customer-signed acceptance, not a status review. That is the structure that makes the fixed-date commitment hold.
The Phases · 01
What each phase is. What you sign.
01
Assess
Exit
Roadmap signed.
02
Design
Exit
SOW countersigned.
03
Build
Exit
Build complete.
04
Test
Exit
Acceptance gate passed.
05
Deploy / DataOps
Exit
Acceptance signed.
Why Signed Exits · 02
Phases end on paperwork, not slides.
A status review can be re-opened. A signed acceptance cannot. The mechanism exists because the alternative, phase exits closed on a status review, is the failure mode that stalls most modernization. Every Mactores phase has a named exit that requires customer signature. The engagement closes on customer-signed acceptance, not on a status deck.
For finance and procurement teams: signed exits are also why Mactores engagements close cleanly. No hanging change orders. No stalled accounts. The end of the engagement is a date, not a drift.
The Economics · 03
Standard phases. Non-standard economics.
The five phases look standard, the same shape as a traditional engagement. The economics inside them are not. Aedeon does roughly 60–70% of the hours each phase would normally consume. That is what shifts our delivery profile and what funds the fixed-date commitment. The phases are common ground with how customer procurement and finance teams already think. The work inside them is what makes the contract structure commercially viable.
Traditional model
- Hourly billing
- No commercial certainty
- Change orders compound
- Pyramid staffing structure
Mactores model
- Fixed-date and fixed-fee
- Overage on Mactores-caused delays
- Customer-caused delay converts to T&M at standard rates
- Forward-deployed engineering structure