Outsourcing Decision Kit
Work handed outside is still your work — price the management you keep, and write the exit while they still want your signature.
What it is
The decision to move work outside the business, taken as the purchase of a supplier rather than the deletion of a problem. Tests what must stay, prices the internal route fully loaded against the fee plus the management nobody budgets, runs the diligence, structures the pilot and the clauses that matter, and leaves a retained capability and an exit dossier that keep you a customer rather than a hostage. For owners and operating leads deciding what goes out.
What you receive
a decision about what to hand outside and to whom — the retention test that names what may never leave, the true cost comparison including the management time that does not disappear, the diligence and the contract terms that decide the next three years, the transition with its two-way knowledge transfer, and the exit dossier written while the relationship is still new
Delivered as a single, complete .md skill file — open it, paste it into any capable chat model, and work. No installation, no account with anyone but us.
Supported models
- Claude (Opus/Sonnet)
- ChatGPT (GPT-4o/5)
- Gemini
- any capable chat model
People reach for it when
- “should we outsource bookkeeping or hire someone”
- “how to compare the cost of outsourcing versus doing it internally”
- “what to ask an outsourcing provider before signing”
- “how to write an exit clause in an outsourcing contract”
- “we outsourced support and quality dropped”
Record
lineage: first-party house build
gates passed: demand-evidence · function-fit · beats-the-blank-page
status: IN THE COLLECTION
Sale-time bench runs and the fix-or-refund log attach to this record when the payment room opens.
In the collection. The sale room is being fitted; this work goes on sale when it opens.
Join the house — be written to when sales openBack to the collectionLicense
Free-shelf works ship under the DolceDrago House License — use the outputs freely, personal or commercial; the work file itself stays with the house.