Performance-Based Retainer
The Performance-Based Retainer aligns financial compensation directly with mutually agreed technical milestones, such as cloud API billing optimization or latency SLA compliance under production workloads.
How the Performance-Based Retainer Operates
We baseline existing system metrics (e.g., current API cost per query or retrieval precision), set target SLA goals, and share risk by linking bonus payouts to achieved production benchmarks.
Production AI systems requiring cost optimization, throughput scaling, or strict accuracy improvements.
Accountability & Payment Structure
Esaholic: Performance profiling, model quantization, caching implementation, and continuous monitoring.
Client: Baseline telemetry metrics access and historical cloud billing transparency.
Reduced monthly base retainer combined with milestone bonus payouts upon achieving verified target metrics.