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# Spencer's consultation payment proposal

## Background and Objectives
1. Our high level goal is to maximize dollar-weighted conversion of Hire Us requests into Raids
2. To do that, we need to incentivize RG members to...
a) give consults, and
b) develop and select effective sales tactics
3. We also want to avoid spam and low-value work requests that distract us from doing legitimate and higher-value work

## Proposed Approach

### Hire Us requests
- No required deposit, but we make it clear on the website that there's no guarantee we'll accept the request (and will depend on multiple factors, including the client's estimated budget)
- To guarantee a consult, the client can make a 300 DAI deposit

### Consults
- If there's a deposit, the consultant(s) get 200 DAI (or share equivalent), with 100 DAI going to the guild as spoils
- **200 DAI (or share equivalent) to consultant(s)**
- **100 DAI to guild as spoils**
- Consultants also get X% (we can decide on the exact amount) commission from each raid they convert
- **X% commission to consultant(s)**
- Consultant(s) can decide to tackle a consult/sale together, in which case they split the above amounts

As a consultant, I could decide whether I want to give a client a consult based on the client's estimated budget, knowing that I can expect X% of that as commission if I make the conversion. So for example, if the comission is 2%, I'm probably not going to elect to do non-guaranteed (no deposit) consults for clients with expected budgets of <10,000, since I can only expect to make 100-200 DAI on the commission.

We can adjust the commission % over time to adjust the lower bound of raid budget we collectively want to accept (smaller commission raises the minimum raid budget).

This also naturally creates more room for multiple consultants to work together to sell bigger projects, including bringing in (and reimbursing!) devs or designers if helpful to make the sale.

## Alternative Approach

> Based on discussion with @taekikz

Instead of the consultants receiving the commission, under this approach the active cleric on the raid gets the commision. In other words, the total payment to the active cleric would be 10% + commission. If we decide the commission should be 3%, for example, the cleric would get 13% of the raid payment.

This would have the following effects:

* Encourage clerics to have a continuous relationship with the client, from sales through completion of the raid, which makes for a better client experience
* Establish the cleric as the "lead" in the sales process
* If for whatever reason the consultant(s) don't end up acting as cleric in the raid, they would need to negotiate with the eventual active cleric for the commission