Reserved capacity
An agreed number of hours each month with a named specialist who knows your files.
United States · New York City · Ongoing support
Retainers make sense in New York when reporting runs to a fixed calendar. Quarter-end arrives whether or not your analyst is available, and reserved hours are cheaper than an emergency engagement two days before the pack is due.
Abhishek
Abhishek Singh
Akhilesh
Prahalad
ShaktiA remote team of Excel and spreadsheet specialists. You work directly with the person building your file, from the first question to the final handover. More about us.
A typical job here
Most of these run 40 hours/month. The estimate is written down before anything starts, and exceeding it needs your agreement rather than an invoice note.
Why New York City specifically
Clients for this are typically in Midtown, the Financial District, Long Island City and Downtown Brooklyn, across investment and asset management, commercial real estate, media, and professional services firms billing by the hour. Deal models, portfolio packs and month-end consolidations that have to survive review.
For the wider picture of what we see in this market — the recurring problems, the source systems, how the time difference plays out — the New York City guide covers it properly rather than repeating it on every service page.
40 hours/month is typical here. You get a number in writing before we start.
Unlocked files, documentation, recorded handover.
Full guide
This page covers one service. The city guide covers the whole picture, including the problems we see most in this market.
Excel experts in New York CityScope
Two of the things this covers most often for New York City clients. The ongoing support page sets out the full scope and method.
An agreed number of hours each month with a named specialist who knows your files.
Updates when your source data changes shape, which it will.
The same person, so context accumulates instead of resetting.
Adjust the arrangement, or end it. Retainers should be easy to leave.
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Questions
Answers for this service in this market, including the ones that might cost us the job.
Ask us something elseYes, provided we have worked on the files before. Coming in cold during close is where mistakes happen, so we would want one cycle alongside your team first. If you need cover next week with no prior context, we will say that it is risky rather than take it on.
Only if you have recurring need. If you have one project, hire us for one project — we will say so rather than pushing a retainer you do not need.
We bill by the hour, from $15, and give you an estimate of the hours before starting. A focused review of a single workbook is usually 4–8 hours, delivered as a prioritised findings list plus a recorded walkthrough. We stop and ask before exceeding an estimate, so the total stays predictable.
Related
Most projects touch more than one of these. We scope them together rather than selling them separately.
Same service elsewhere
Start with the problem
Send the workbook or describe the problem. An hours estimate back within a day, at no cost and no obligation.
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