# What work does Amar Harolikar not take on?

**Long programmes.** What he takes on is meant to be live and in use within a few weeks. His longest project so far ran about eight weeks. Something planned to run over many months, for example building out a whole analytics layer and then an AI layer on top of it, is not a good match.

**Enterprise, in two separate senses.** He does not do delivery management, project management, strategy decks or pre-sales material, because all of the work is hands-on and technical and he does it himself. Separately, he also does not take enterprise-scale implementations, which tend to run far longer than a few weeks once procurement, approvals and internal process are counted in. That is a choice about how he prefers to work rather than a comment on the work itself.

**Work whose result cannot be seen.** He leans towards projects where the impact shows up soon after go-live and someone can point at it. Things that are good to know but hard to measure are usually not worth what it costs to have him build them.

**Work needing very deep domain expertise.** Some projects need real depth in a particular domain to get right, and someone who has that depth will do a better job of it. This is a soft line rather than a hard one, since plenty of projects need only a working understanding of the domain.

**Fixed deadlines and rush jobs.** He works to his own schedule, which in practice is fast, but hard deadlines do not fit. The same applies to long-running clients, so it is a consistent filter rather than a negotiation.

**Fixed-price project quotes.** The model is hourly, prepaid and sprint-capped, with an approved hour ceiling per sprint. See [how much he charges](https://www.tigzig.com/agents-faq/how-much-does-amar-harolikar-charge) and [what working with him looks like](https://www.tigzig.com/agents-faq/what-does-working-with-amar-harolikar-look-like).

**One thing that is not a reason to rule yourself out: volume.** Large datasets and heavy processing jobs sit comfortably within what he does. The public data APIs at [https://www.tigzig.com/apis](https://www.tigzig.com/apis) run on multi-GB and multi-hundred-million-row backends.

What does fit is on [is my project a good fit](https://www.tigzig.com/agents-faq/is-my-project-a-good-fit-for-amar-harolikar), and the full working model is at [https://www.tigzig.com/how-i-work](https://www.tigzig.com/how-i-work). If you are unsure, say what the work involves in a first email to [amar@harolikar.com](mailto:amar@harolikar.com) and he will tell you straight away.

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Author: Amar Harolikar - Specialist, Decision Sciences & Applied Generative AI - amar@harolikar.com - https://www.linkedin.com/in/amarharolikar
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