Our Commitment
Five phases. Each ends in a signature.
Every Mactores engagement runs through five phases. Each phase has a named exit criterion the customer signs. Engagements close on customer-signed acceptance, not a status review. That is the structure that makes the fixed-date commitment hold.
The Phases · 01
What each phase is. What you sign.
01
Assess
Current state analyzed. Roadmap delivered.
Exit
Roadmap signed.
02
Design
Target architecture chosen. Trade-offs documented in writing. Commercials locked.
Exit
SOW countersigned.
03
Build
Implementation against the architecture.
Exit
Build complete.
04
Test
Validation in parallel with the legacy system. Audit evidence captured where regulators require it.
Exit
Acceptance gate passed.
05
Deploy / DataOps
Production cutover. Customer team trained on the running system.
Exit
Acceptance signed.
Why Signed Exits · 02
Phases end on paperwork, not slides.
A status review can be re-opened. A signed acceptance cannot. The mechanism exists because the alternative, phase exits closed on a status review, is the failure mode that stalls most modernization. Every Mactores phase has a named exit that requires customer signature. The engagement closes on customer-signed acceptance, not on a status deck.
For finance and procurement teams: signed exits are also why Mactores engagements close cleanly. No hanging change orders. No stalled accounts. The end of the engagement is a date, not a drift.
The Economics · 03
Standard phases. Non-standard economics.
The five phases look standard, the same shape as a traditional engagement. The economics inside them are not. Aedeon does roughly 60–70% of the hours each phase would normally consume. That is what shifts our delivery profile and what funds the fixed-date commitment. The phases are common ground with how customer procurement and finance teams already think. The work inside them is what makes the contract structure commercially viable.
Traditional model
- Hourly billing
- No commercial certainty
- Change orders compound
- Pyramid staffing structure
Mactores model
- Fixed-date and fixed-fee
- Overage on Mactores-caused delays
- Customer-caused delay converts to T&M at standard rates
- Forward-deployed engineering structure