Please Contact me at matt (at) singlelunch (dot) com if you have any questions. I never mind getting contacted.

Fees

My common fee structure:

• Quick Consultation (Up to a day, <8h) $450/hr.

• Short Engagement (1-3 weeks, minimum 1 week). $7500/week.

• Medium Engagement (4-12 weeks). $6500/week.

• Long Engagement (>12 weeks) Negotiable on request, usually after an initial evaluation.

Payment terms: For quick consultation/short engagement: half upfront, half on delivery. For medium and long engagements, 30 days up front, then billing every 4 weeks.

Services:

Project Audit

I review your planned project for feasibility and risks. My audit work is white glove - it includes both the strategic consulting and the technical work. The outsized value most often comes from leveraging my experience to dictate what mistakes you are about to make.

This is done within either a Quick Consultation or Short Engagement.

Custom Research Report

I provide ad hoc research reports based on a analysis of your data and/or publicly available data. The report makes direct recommendations for corporate strategy, project review, or risk analysis.

This is generally done for market research, feasibility analysis of a project, or financial analysis. My research reports are “full course meals”, they include both in depth data analysis, but also research of external sources and my professional opinion on your strategic position.

In the 2021-2022 cryptocurrency bubble, I did a lot of this for fraud investigations and investment risk analysis. One example of the depth & breadth of my research reports would be in this post on price manipulation.

Custom research reports are a short engagement.

Proof of Concept

I make prototype ML systems for companies. Here are common usecases

• “Can we make a model with our data?” - I can tell you, and I can make a benchmark model for that task.

• I am an expert in representation learning, and embedding based production systems. This is usually similarity calculation systems and ingesting non-standard types of data into production models (user representations, network relationships, geographic data, image data, etc.)

• Integrating a new model into a system with existing data movement and models that have complex relationships to each other.

This is typically within a Medium Engagement. It can include a new project audit to discuss feasibility and limitations of your idea.

Troubled project turnaround

Assessment of a troubled project (over budget/deadline, underperformance, technical debt). The assessment itself fits withing a Short Engagement. After assessment, further steps to be taken can be negotiated.

Speaking

I speak on topics related to machine learning, economics, and their intersection. Time on stage varies from 20min to 2h.