The on-site pricing is one line — $239 per working day, billed from the moment we head out — so it's fair to ask what a line like that actually buys. Here is the anatomy of one day, start to finish, in plain terms.
The day before the day
A field day is won or lost in the written brief the night before. What exactly gets checked, at which address, on what date, in what order, and what the evidence has to answer. If a task is vague — "see how the apartment is" — the quote email will contain the questions before the trip does: which rooms, what condition details, video walkthrough or photo set, neighborhood included or not. Nothing gets improvised on someone else's invoice.
08:00 — travel is part of the day, not an extra
One working day means a day spent on the task: the train to the city, the metro to the district, the walk from the station to the gate. Local transit is billed at actual cost with receipts, not marked up — the daily rate covers the working hours, the travel time and the judgment, and the tickets are simply passed through. That's why the quote lists the day rate and the travel separately: one is the service, the other is reimbursement.
On site — the capture protocol
Whatever the task — a carton count in Foshan, a walkthrough flat in Shanghai, a shelf audit in a Chengdu supermarket — the same discipline applies:
- Timestamped photos. Camera metadata intact, nothing re-saved through an app that strips it. The date on the file is the date you asked for.
- Continuous handheld video where the task calls for it — one take walking in, through, and out, so the sequence can't be cherry-picked.
- Numbers counted in frame. If the brief says "count the cartons," the count happens with the camera running, not from a clipboard summary.
- Questions answered on the spot. If something unexpected shows up — a locked gate, a different nameplate, a half-empty shelf — it gets photographed and flagged the same day, not quietly omitted.
Evening — the written report
The evidence package is never just a zip of files. The delivery is a short structured report: what was asked, what was found, what was seen at each stop, with the photos and video referenced against each point — and, always, a plain answer to the question the task was really built around. Is this factory what it says it is? Is this property what the listing said? Is my product actually on this shelf?
Reports go out the same evening where possible, and no later than the next day. If the answer is bad news, it arrives just as fast as good news would — that's the entire product.
- A full working day on location, travel within the day included in the rate.
- Timestamped photos, continuous video where relevant, counts done in frame.
- A written report that answers the actual question, same day or next.
- On cross-city trips, travel and accommodation billed at actual cost, receipts for every expense.
- One point of contact end to end — the person who shows up is the person you briefed.
What one day doesn't include
It doesn't include a lawyer, a notary or a government filing — where a task needs those, the visit covers the physical leg and says clearly what it can't. And some things can't be rushed: a proper pre-shipment inspection of a full container load is a two-day job, and the quote will honestly say so rather than promise a day and deliver an hour.
Curious what a day of field work would cost for your task, in your city? The order form takes about three minutes, and the reply comes within 24 hours — by email or WhatsApp, whichever you prefer.