Not Quite My Tempo Retainer Fit Matrix

Not Quite My Tempo only earns its keep when an agency already sits inside a client's GitHub workflow. The matrix has two axes: whether the agency has delivery access to the client's repositories, and whether the client ships pull requests often enough to feel a one-minute review cycle. High access plus high PR volume is the retainer zone: install the GitHub App, write a .fletcher.json with severity thresholds and ignore globs, and run Gemini on the client's own key so review credits never touch your bill. Low access is the dead zone, because the tool posts comments under Fletcher branding and cannot be white-labeled, so there is nothing to resell. A typical engagement: a 16-hour setup billed at $1,800 for a single-repo dev shop, then a monthly line item for tuning severity rules as the codebase grows. Price the retainer against the client's Gemini usage, not a flat fee.