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XP ConsultingFree Brief

For deans, teaching centres, graduate schools and research offices

Buy it the way your institution actually buys things.

Departmental capacity rather than another workshop nobody attends. Course audits, faculty cohorts, doctoral completion programmes and research-office support — invoiced against a purchase order, with the paperwork your finance office asks for.

No ghostwriting, ever · Human-led, PhD-signed

What we do at scale

Four ways in.

Four engagements. Each one is the version of a service we already run one to one, resized for a department and reported at the level a committee reads.

  • Faculty development cohorts

    Teaching centres · Academic development units

    A cohort of your instructors through the same material one to one clients pay for, adapted to your disciplines and your LMS. Live, hybrid or self-paced, with completion reporting your teaching centre can put in an annual return.

  • Departmental course audits

    Heads of department · Programme directors

    Up to four courses, each with a full syllabus and LMS review, a Design-Risk Map per course and a cross-course consistency report your programme committee can act on. Priced below.

  • Doctoral completion programmes

    Graduate schools · Doctoral colleges

    For graduate schools with a submission-rate problem. Diagnostics, milestone structure and defence rehearsal across a cohort of candidates, reported at cohort level rather than individually.

  • Research-office capacity

    Research offices · Vice-deans for research

    Grant-readiness review at volume, panel simulation before internal deadlines, and training for the staff who run those processes. Built to reduce the load on an office rather than add a supplier to it.

Course Engagement Audit scopes and departmental pricing

Published prices

What a course audit costs, at every scope

The two smaller scopes are card-payable by an individual instructor. Department scope is invoiced, and its delivery mode is your choice.

Course Engagement Audit — Single Course and Async Audit compared. Department and CTL scope is priced separately below.
FeatureSingle Course€399Async Audit€299
Full syllabus & LMS layout reviewIncludedIncluded
Lecture analysis (up to 90 minutes)IncludedIncluded
Design-Risk Map, week by weekIncludedIncluded
Five plug-and-play mechanicsIncludedIncluded
LMS-specific implementation notesIncludedIncluded
Debrief30-minute live callRecorded 25-minute walkthrough
Follow-up14 days of email Q&AEmail follow-up
Cross-course consistency reportNot includedNot included
Tenure-ready teaching artefactsIncludedIncluded
Choose a tierChoose Single CourseChoose Async Audit

The case for the audit itself (the Design-Risk Map, the six deliverables, how the diagnostic runs) lives on the service page, and the design thinking behind it is on the Innovation Hub.

For departments and teaching centres

Department & CTL scope

Up to four courses, mapped together. Delivery mode changes the price; the diagnostic does not.

  • Up to four courses, each with its own full syllabus and LMS review
  • Lecture analysis per course, and a Design-Risk Map per course plus a cross-course view
  • A cross-course consistency report your programme committee can act on
  • A shared mechanics playbook rather than five mechanics per course
  • 60-minute faculty session and one week of asynchronous email follow-up
  • A departmental summary alongside each instructor’s own teaching artefacts
  • Live workshop

    €1,849

    60-minute live faculty workshop plus Q&A, recorded for staff who cannot attend. Built on the maps from your four audited courses, so the examples are yours.

  • Hybrid

    Our recommendation

    €1,699

    45–60 minutes pre-recorded for faculty to watch on their own schedule, followed by a 30-minute live Q&A. Your team receives the complete four-course audit walkthrough asynchronously, so only the Q&A requires a fixed slot on your department calendar.

  • Pre-recorded

    €1,549

    Self-paced modules, a written Q&A document answering your faculty’s submitted questions, and one week of asynchronous email follow-up.

For departments and teaching centres

Buying this for a department?

We invoice institutions directly and supply the paperwork your finance office asks for. No card required.

Individual faculty: this is a standard use of professional development funds — ask us for a scope-of-work paragraph you can paste into the request. Teaching centres and departments: we issue formal invoices and accept purchase orders.

Beyond a single engagement

The cohort retainer is scoped, then quoted.

For institutions that want capacity across a year rather than one piece of work.

An annual arrangement covering a named cohort or department: audits through the year, faculty sessions on your calendar, and a standing route for your staff to bring us a problem without raising a new PO each time.

We do not publish a figure for it, because the honest one is a range and a range on a page is a number somebody will quote back at us out of context. What it depends on is cohort size, how many departments are covered, delivery mode, and how much of the material is adapted to your own courses. You get a scope and a figure together, before anything is signed.

Procurement

What we can supply, and what we need from you.

The documentation your finance office will ask for, listed so you can check it against your own policy before you spend a call on it.

  • Purchase orders

    We quote against a PO number and invoice against it. If your system needs a supplier record created first, we complete that before invoicing rather than after.

  • Scope of work

    A written scope before anything is signed: deliverables, exclusions, timeline, named contacts and what happens if a date moves. The exclusions section is the one that saves the engagement.

  • Data processing agreement

    A DPA covering what we receive, where it is stored, how long it is held and how it is destroyed. Our course work is designed to need no student personal data at all, which usually shortens this conversation considerably.

  • Tax and supplier documentation

    W-9 or VAT documentation, bank details through your own verification process, and insurance certificates where your procurement policy requires them.

The scope of work is currently written and sent rather than generated as a PDF on demand — we would rather hand you a document a person wrote for your engagement than a template with your name merged into it. Ask for one and it comes back inside two working days.

Start here

Book an institutional call.

Thirty minutes on scope, cohort size, delivery mode and what your finance office will need from us. No preparation required and nothing to sign.

Book an institutional call

30 minutes. For deans, teaching centres, graduate schools and research offices. Scope, cohort size, delivery mode and what your finance office will need from us.

Book an institutional call

Already past scoping?

If procurement is the remaining question (POs, the DPA, tax documentation, supplier onboarding), book the procurement call instead and bring whoever signs.

Book a procurement call

30 minutes. Purchase orders, invoicing, a data processing agreement, VAT and W-9 documentation, and the scope-of-work template. Bring whoever signs.

Book a procurement call

Want a workshop specifically?

A faculty workshop has its own short qualifying form: cohort size, department, budget cycle and timeframe. The first call then starts from something real rather than from introductions.

Book a workshop

Quick answers

Objections, handled

Can we pay by invoice against a purchase order?

Yes — that is the only way an institution buys from us. There is no card path for institutional scope, and that is a design decision rather than a limitation: an institutional figure sitting beside a buy button is the thing our own rules exist to prevent. You get a scope of work, a quote, and an invoice against your PO.

Do you need our student data?

No, and we will not take it. The course work runs from your syllabus, your LMS layout and one recorded session — never a roster, never grades, never names. That is a design constraint rather than a policy, and it means the data-protection review is usually short.

What does a cohort retainer cost?

It is quoted rather than listed, because the figure depends on cohort size, how many departments are covered, delivery mode and how much is adapted to your own courses. The scoped items on this page are priced and published; the retainer is scoped first and quoted second. Nobody is asked to commit before seeing both.

Who actually delivers it?

The founder, Dr Xu-Priour, who signs every report. If an engagement ever needs a second specialist, we name that person before you sign, never after.

Can we start with one course before committing to a department?

Yes, and we would usually suggest it. A single course audit is card-payable, costs a fraction of a departmental engagement, and produces a real artefact you can show a committee. If it does not convince them, you have lost very little and learned something.

Start small if you would rather

One course, then a department.

A single course audit is card-payable, costs a fraction of a departmental engagement, and produces an artefact you can put in front of a committee. It is the cheapest way to find out whether this is worth doing at scale.