The same depth. A fraction of the cost. And we stay in the conversation.
Traditional fire service consulting was built for a slower decade. We were not. Here is what is different, and why it matters when your local government is asking for a number it can defend.
A six-figure binder. Six months later.
- $60,000 to $250,000 typical engagement.
- Six to twelve months from kickoff to final report.
- A team flies in, interviews, leaves, returns with a PDF.
- By delivery, the data is already stale.
- Updates require a new engagement.
- Methodology often hidden behind proprietary scoring.
Productized. Defensible. In weeks. Refreshed as the data moves.
- A normal municipal budget line. PRISM from $1,000.
- Days to weeks for a deliverable, not months.
- Your data, NFPA aligned, traceable inputs.
- Standing relationship as the data changes.
- Methodology published with every report.
- Built by a practitioner, not pitched by a sales team.
The depth, the standards, the defensibility.
Every engagement is aligned to the same standards the legacy firms use: NFPA 1300 for risk, NFPA 1750 (2026) for deployment, the same public data sources, the same statistical methods. The product is not a cheaper version. It is the same analysis, built once and maintained, instead of rebuilt from scratch every decade.
Cost. Speed. And the conversation that follows.
The legacy model treats a study as an event. We treat it as a relationship. When your call volume shifts, when a station closes, when a new development goes in, the analysis updates. You are not arguing from a snapshot a year out of date. You are arguing from today.
Start with a 30-minute call. Bring your hardest question.
We will tell you what the data can answer, what it cannot, and what it would take to close the gap.