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Yes — by design. We're configured to sit alongside an in-house engineering team or an appointed M&E firm without taking design authority. Our deliverables — the USQI™ scorecard, the risk register, the IC-grade readout — are formatted to fold directly into your existing governance pack. Where our findings overlap with the M&E firm's scope, we annotate the divergence rather than overwrite. The operator decides which view stands; we make sure both views are visible to the people signing.

Always. We sign a mutual NDA before any site-level data leaves your environment, and we treat site-list confidentiality as a hard constraint — including with our own back-office team. If your transaction requires a clean-room arrangement (split data rooms, walled-off reviewers, named-individual access logs), we'll structure the engagement accordingly. We've operated under hyperscaler-tenant confidentiality regimes; the protocol is familiar and we won't slow your transaction down to relearn it.

No. Never. This is structural, not personal. We don't sell sites, develop sites, hold land options, or take developer referral fees — and we don't accept undisclosed retainers from contractors, vendors, or operators on the other side of your transaction. Independence is the asset we sell; we won't dilute it for one deal, and our partnership agreement makes that enforceable internally. The full Independence Pledge is published on our principles page so your legal team can verify before engagement.

Three variables: the number of sites in scope, the country count, and the depth tier you commission. A two-site screening in a single jurisdiction sits at the bottom of the range. A six-site deep-dive across two jurisdictions with a full local-content scan sits at the top. We quote against a sizing matrix on the call, not a salesperson's discretion — if you brief us on scope in an introductory meeting, we'll scope the fee in the same meeting and put the number on a single page.

Yes — that's the Rapid Audit. Five working days, $5,000 fixed-fee, output is a USQI™ scorecard against the twelve dimensions and the three risks most likely to derail your commercial assumption. About two-thirds of Rapid Audit engagements expand into full Site Selection within sixty days, because the Audit surfaces enough to make the case to the investment committee internally — which is the bottleneck for most operators we work with.

Local-content compatibility is one of the twelve USQI™ dimensions, weighted 8–12% depending on tenant profile. For operators with anchor-tenant exposure to a regulated procurement framework — IKTVA-linked Aramco, ICV-linked UAE government entities, NCA-linked national champions, or equivalent — we run a gap analysis against your existing supply base before the site is committed. We don't certify compliance; that remains the regulator's role. We surface the qualification path and the calendar before procurement signs, so the cost of qualifying is priced into the deal rather than absorbed during execution.