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Periodic
Pre-arranged capacity for predictable peaks, without paying for it year-round.
Periodic
Plenty of workloads are seasonal and predictable. Solar volumes climb through spring. Underfloor heating tenders cluster before the construction season. Survey work concentrates in the flying window. Year-end brings a documentation scramble. You know it is coming and you still end up short.
Periodic resourcing reserves capacity for those windows. You commit to a pattern — three months at four seats, or two weeks of every month, or a defined annual peak — and we hold trained people for it. Between windows you pay a small retention fee rather than a full seat rate.
The people who return are the people who were there last time, so each cycle starts with your standards already understood rather than with a fresh onboarding.
What you receive
Every item below is issued in your own template, with your layer conventions, title block and revision scheme.
- Capacity plan agreed against your known seasonal pattern
- Named people reserved for each window
- Same individuals returning cycle to cycle wherever possible
- Standards refresher before each window rather than full onboarding
- Guaranteed availability on the agreed dates
- Reduced retention rate between active windows
- Additional capacity on request where our own pipeline allows
- Post-window review with volume and throughput data
Production detail
| Commitment | Annual pattern agreed in advance |
|---|---|
| Active windows | From two weeks to nine months per year |
| Retention fee | Reduced rate between windows to hold the people |
| Notice to activate | 14 days for a planned window, 30 for an unplanned one |
| Continuity | Same individuals across cycles wherever available |
| Ramp-up | 2–4 days on a returning cycle rather than 2–4 weeks |
Software and formats
We work in your toolchain. If something you use is not listed, ask — the list below is only what we use most.
Frequently asked
Send one periodic job and see how we work
Scope, price and programme come back in writing before anything starts. Most first projects are a single deliverable so you can judge us on output, not on a pitch.