You know you have to innovate — but not how?

Requirement clarification and access to all IR-curated partners are free for SMBs and industry. Only the actual contract with the chosen provider is billed — directly between you and the provider, with funding wherever possible. IR refinances itself through success fees on successfully brokered projects. One exception you should know: for abandoning a comparison procedure already under way — and for a procedure that remains undecided after the kick-off — § 8 (4) of our terms provides for a flat fee covering the research and procedural work performed up to that point.

From a structured requirement to curated provider proposals we reckon on 14 days. The sprint itself usually starts within two to four weeks after that — depending on the availability of the chosen partners and the complexity of the project.

Yes. We work with standardised, purchasing-compliant contracts and transparent provider selection. For below-threshold procurement the process works directly; for larger volumes we supply the market research and the structured comparison grid your procurement office needs anyway.

Every sprint has documented discontinuation criteria from the outset. If the project does not hold up, the sprint is ended in a controlled way — and you are left with documented insight instead of a vague failure. That is explicitly part of the model, not an exception.