BuiltLong for consultants
Website, inquiries, and client payments for independent consultants
Explain how clients work with you and what an engagement costs. Inquiries arrive with the brief, budget, and decision-makers. Then take a deposit, book a working session, or start a retainer, all paid straight to you.
Free to start · No setup fee
Northline AdvisoryInquiryMaya Chen
Operating model assessment · Defined assessment
Revenue ownership is split across sales, finance, and delivery before our next funding round.
- Location
- Austin, Texas
- Start
- Within 1–3 months
- Budget range
- $30,000–$75,000
- Decides
- CEO, COO, and board lead
- Client type
- Startup
- First known source
- Search
What you get
What your consulting setup turns on
When you create your site from this page, BuiltLong suggests these features as your starting point. You confirm them before anything changes, and you can turn any of them off later.
- 01Website · Free
A site that sets the level of engagement
Name your services, the kinds of engagements you take, typical investment ranges, and your reply time, so very small projects rule themselves out.
- 02Inquiries · Free
Fit-first inquiries
Ask for the organization type, the brief, timing, budget range, and who decides. Accept, decline, or keep reviewing, with each step recorded.
- 03Payment requests · FreeProposals and bookings · Plus
A deposit or a booked working session
Send a one-time payment link for a paid assessment or project start. When the client needs to pick a time, offer three or four approved times for a workshop and take a booking deposit.
- 04Recurring services · PlusClient spaces · Plus
Retainers and a private client space
Publish a monthly or quarterly retainer with fixed terms and receipts. Share working drafts in a private space and record the client's approval.
A published site
Meridian Facilitation, as clients see it
Meridian Facilitation is a fictional UK facilitator from BuiltLong's test fixtures, shown in the Modernist design with a custom palette. Its openings are in London time.
United Kingdom · Europe · remote worldwide
Strategy offsites that turn distributed leadership into clear decisions.
Meridian designs and facilitates focused working sessions for leadership teams that need alignment, tradeoffs, and owners—not another slide deck.
Services
- Strategy offsite
- Decision sprint
- Quarterly facilitation
Times to begin
- Tuesday · 9:00 to 10:00 AMLondon timeOffsite fit conversation · Online · Executive sponsor and project leadOpen
- Thursday · 3:00 to 4:00 PMLondon timeOffsite fit conversation · Online · Executive sponsor and project leadOpen
Project types
Remote offsite · In-person offsite · Quarterly cadence · Decision workshop
Typical budgets
£6,000–£10,000 · £10,000–£20,000 · £20,000+
Timing
Within 4–8 weeks · This quarter · Next quarter
How it works
From brief to paid engagement
- 01
Publish your consulting site
Describe your services, engagement types, typical investment, and reply time.
- 02
Review the brief
Each inquiry arrives with the organization, scope, timing, budget, and decision-makers. Decide whether a fit call is worth it.
- 03
Agree the first payment
Send a payment link for an assessment, or a proposal of approved times for a working session with a booking deposit.
- 04
Keep the engagement going
Start a retainer the client pays each month or quarter, and share drafts for approval in a private client space.
Pricing
Free and Plus
Your site, inquiries, and payment requests are on Free. Proposals, retainers, and client spaces need Plus.
Free
$02% fee on payments you collect
Your site, the inquiry form, availability status, and one-time payment requests such as a consultation or deposit. Free never expires.
Plus
$9a month or $99 a year · 1% fee on payments you collect
Everything in Free, plus proposals with approved times and booking deposits, recurring services, invitation-only client spaces with shared boards, discussion, and review decisions, weekly openings, and managers. Seven-day Plus trial, once per owner workspace. No card required.
- The money goes straight to your connected payment account, never through BuiltLong, and pays out to your bank. Card processing and ad spend are separate from the BuiltLong fee.
- A custom domain is a $99 yearly add-on on either plan. An eligible .com is registered, connected, and renewed for you.
- Managed Ads is available on Plus for a Google Ads account you own, within the spending limits you approve, with ad spend paid to Google directly.
Boundaries
What BuiltLong does not do for consultants
BuiltLong covers how a client finds you, starts, and pays. Delivery and back office stay in your other tools.
- Proposal documents, contracts, or e-signatures
- Invoice schedules, time tracking, or accounting
- CRM pipelines or automated follow-up
- Calendar sync. You choose each time you offer.
- Seats for a staffed agency. You can add managers to help with client work.
Questions
Questions about BuiltLong for consultants
Does BuiltLong replace my contracts and invoicing?
No. BuiltLong covers the site, the inquiry, and the first payment or retainer. Contracts, e-signatures, invoices, and accounting stay in the tools you use now.
Can clients pay a retainer?
Yes, on Plus. Publish a recurring service billed every week, month, quarter, or year, with optional terms such as two 60-minute sessions a month. Clients pay to your connected payment account and keep their own receipts.
What is a BuiltLong proposal?
A short offer of three or four times you have approved for a session or workshop, with a booking deposit. It is not a proposal document or a contract. Use it when the client needs to pick a time.
Do you support clients in other countries?
Yes. The site and inquiries work worldwide in English, and openings show your timezone. Taking payments depends on your business's country being supported.
Can someone help me run client work?
Yes, on Plus. Add a manager to handle inquiries and client spaces. Only you control billing, domains, features, and the payment account.
Is client information public?
No. Inquiries, client spaces, payments, and receipts are private to you and the client. Your site shows only what you publish.
Get started
Start free and publish when you are ready.
Create your account, name the business, and confirm your starting point. Nothing is public until you publish.