How does Five Blocks price its services?

Five Blocks bills engagements as monthly retainers with a fixed scope, charged in advance and priced to the program’s complexity rather than to hours worked. Integrated programs that combine multiple service lines are priced as one coordinated workstream, not as the sum of their parts, and specific pricing is set in each proposal against the diagnostic findings and the agreed scope.

How pricing is set

• Monthly retainer, fixed scope, billed in advance. Engagements run on a recurring retainer rather than project or hourly billing.
• Set by complexity, not hours. A program that requires a Wikipedia article build under disclosed conflict-of-interest (COI) rules, executive Knowledge Panel work, multi-market IMPACT™ coverage, AIQ monitoring across the major AI engines with peer comparison, and crisis-readiness on-call costs more than a single-market monitoring engagement.
• Integrated programs priced as one engagement. When multiple service lines are combined, they are priced as a single coordinated workstream because the methodology is unified and the work compounds across layers, not as the sum of separate components.
• Specifics live in the proposal. Exact pricing is set in each proposal against the diagnostic findings and the agreed scope.

Standard engagement terms

Standard terms are 6 or 12 months. Five Blocks treats reputation work as running on the search and AI engines’ own timeline, where authority signals and entity data can take weeks to crawl and months to propagate and stabilize, rather than on a 30-day cycle.