Discovery week
Software
- Duration
- 1 week
- Ends in
- A scope
- Needs a bid
- No
- You supply
- 2 half-days
Fixed
Illustrative shapes, not a price list
What a first engagement looks like
Five engagements. Every card carries the same five specifications in the same order. Every duration bar runs against sixteen weeks, the longest here, so a bar on one card matches a bar on the next. None of them rescale as you filter. That is what a catalog needs, and it is not the same as being exact.
The engagements
Integration build
Software
- Duration
- 10 weeks
- Ends in
- An interface
- Needs a bid
- Yes
- You supply
- An owner
Rate card
Estate handover
IT
- Duration
- 6 weeks
- Ends in
- Documentation
- Needs a bid
- No
- You supply
- Admin access
Fixed
Passive audit
Cyber
- Duration
- 2 weeks
- Ends in
- Findings
- Needs a bid
- No
- You supply
- Nothing
Fixed
Instrumentation fit-out
Hardware
- Duration
- 16 weeks
- Ends in
- A bench
- Needs a bid
- Yes
- You supply
- A survey
Rate card
Side by side
The comparison is the same five specifications, turned ninety degrees. It drops nothing and reorders nothing. A row that moves between two views is a row nobody can compare.
| Specification | Discovery week | Integration build | Passive audit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Duration | 1 week | 10 weeks | 2 weeks |
| Ends in | A scope | An interface | Findings |
| Needs a bid | No | Yes | No |
| You supply | 2 half-days | An owner | Nothing |
| Priced as | Fixed | Rate card | Fixed |
Design notes
- Shape of the page
- Filters down one side, a shelf of cards beside them, and the comparison underneath rather than in a modal that hides what it compares.
- What it leads with
- The specification. A photograph would be the product in a stone catalog; here the product is a shape of work, so the drawing is a diagram and the specification carries the weight.
- Spacing
- One forty-pixel rhythm. The control that selects an engagement, the row in the comparison and the item on the shelf are all the same height.
- The one bold decision
- Every bar is drawn against the same sixteen weeks, declared once on the shelf and never rescaled. A bar that rescales per card is a chart that lies by looking like a comparison.
Why the rhythm is one number
In the first draft, a specification on a card, the same specification in a comparison row, and the control that selects it were three different sizes. That is what makes two products hard to compare: the eye re-finds the field every time it moves. Catalog puts control, row and shelf item on one forty-pixel rhythm, so it never has to.
What is illustrative here
The engagements and their durations are representative shapes rather than a quotation. Nothing on this page is a price, and the specification that would carry one says how the work is priced instead.