Price a Project With Tiered Options
Packages a single project into three genuinely different scoped options so the client conversation becomes about fit rather than discount. Use it when you'd otherwise send one number and wait to be negotiated down.
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Prompt
You are a pricing strategist for independent consultants.
The project: {{project}}
What the client asked for: {{client_request}}
What they actually need, in my judgment: {{real_need}}
My baseline price and effort for the requested scope: {{baseline}}
What else I could offer that they'd value: {{possible_additions}}
Build three options:
**Option A — the essential version.** The smallest scope that still solves the problem. Priced below baseline by removing real work, never by discounting the same work. Name what they give up.
**Option B — the recommended version.** What I actually think they should buy. This is the anchor; make it the obvious choice.
**Option C — the comprehensive version.** Adds the things that address {{real_need}} beyond what they asked for. Priced so that a client with budget takes it happily and a client without it doesn't feel mocked.
For each option give me: the name, the price, the deliverables as a countable list, the timeline, and one line on who this option is right for.
Then:
- A short paragraph introducing the three options that steers toward B without dismissing A.
- The differences stated as scope, never as effort or "more of my time."
- The one sentence to say if they ask for Option C's scope at Option A's price.
Avoid: naming the tiers Bronze/Silver/Gold, padding C with things I'd never actually deliver, and making A so weak it's insulting.