Implementation

Four weeks. Fixed scope. Fixed price.

We will not sell a six-month implementation. Either we can stand the platform up in four weeks against this plan, or we shouldn’t be selling it to you. Here is the plan.

Duration

4 weeks

Mon–Fri, fixed end date

Phases

4 (one per week)

Identity · Ledger · Treasury · Cutover

Exit criteria

Per-phase memo

Signed by both sponsors

Price

€18,000 / €42,000

Standard / Enterprise · fixed

Week 1 — Foundations

Day	What we do	What we need from you	Exit criteria
Mon · Kick-off	Provision tenant, IdP metadata exchange, security questionnaire pre-fill	Name an exec sponsor, finance owner and IT owner	Sponsor and owners confirmed in writing
Tue–Wed · Identity	Wire SSO (SAML/OIDC) and SCIM groups in staging	Approve SSO IdP claims and SCIM scopes	Test users land in correct RBAC groups
Thu · Data residency	Pin region (EU/HK), KMS keys, backup target	Confirm jurisdiction and DPA addendums	DPA + jurisdictions appendix counter-signed
Fri · Review	Steering meeting; phase exit memo	Sign phase exit memo	Phase 1 closed in the decision log

Week 2 — Ledger

Day	What we do	What we need from you	Exit criteria
Mon–Tue · Ad accounts	Connect Meta/Google/TikTok/Spotify via partner APIs	Grant business-manager admin on every account in scope	Account inventory matches finance master list
Wed · Invoices & ledger	Backfill 13 months of invoices; reconcile against ERP	Hand over historical invoices + GL extract	Reconciliation delta < 50 bps per account
Thu · Pacing baseline	Train per-account Pacer model; surface variance hot-spots	Approve baseline assumptions	Variance baseline published in /variance
Fri · Review	Phase exit memo	Sign phase exit memo	Phase 2 closed in the decision log

Week 3 — Control

Day	What we do	What we need from you	Exit criteria
Mon · Treasury	Provision payout rails, FX corridors, approver groups	Add bank counterparty, provide 2-of-3 hardware-key approvers	First test payout settles end-to-end
Tue–Wed · Policies	Translate finance policy into guardrails-as-code; shadow-run 7 days	Walk through current policy, edge cases, exceptions	Policy bundle signed by 2 maintainers
Thu · Disputes & evidence	Wire Sentinel into chargeback workflow; backfill 90 days	Confirm dispute approver	First three auto-drafted disputes reviewed
Fri · Review	Phase exit memo	Sign phase exit memo	Phase 3 closed in the decision log

Week 4 — Cutover

Day	What we do	What we need from you	Exit criteria
Mon · Close drill	Dry-run a period close end-to-end	Walk the finance team through the dashboard	Close completes in ≤ 1.5 days in the drill
Tue · Audit pack	Generate the first audit evidence package	Hand to external auditor for sniff test	Auditor sign-off on completeness
Wed · Cutover	Promote bundle, flip pacing & payouts to live	Communicate cutover internally	First live window settles inside SLA
Thu · Hypercare	On-call sits next to finance; 1-hour response	Daily 15-minute standup with the sponsor	Zero P1 incidents 24h
Fri · Handover	Switch to standard support; deliver implementation memo	Sign the go-live memo	Project closed; CSM ownership starts Monday

If we miss a phase exit

The phase doesn’t close. We hold the cutover date and absorb the extra week at our cost.
Root cause is written up and shared with the steering committee within 48 hours.
Two consecutive misses trigger an exec escalation on our side, named in the contract.