One Pricing Structure. Five Services. No Hidden Fees.

We’ve optimised the cost structure to keep Essential accessible for engineers on tight migration budgets. The work itself is the same engineer-authored content as higher tiers — what gets stripped is delivery speed (21 days versus 5), revision turnaround speed, and the senior-reviewer pass that adds value mainly when your situation has complexity. For a first-time CDR with a clean engineering background and a comfortable visa timeline, Essential is the right choice. We don’t push higher tiers for engagements that don’t need them.

Yes. The most common reason is a visa-lodgement deadline pulling forward unexpectedly. You pay the difference between tiers; the engagement timeline accelerates to the new tier’s turnaround from the date of upgrade. Downgrades aren’t possible mid-engagement since the higher tier’s resources have already been allocated.

For engagements over A$1,000, we can split into three payments: 40% on engagement, 30% at outline approval, 30% on draft delivery. Splits below this aren’t economical for either side. We don’t offer 12-month BNPL-style financing — the engagement timelines are weeks, not months, and the financing overhead doesn’t make sense at this transaction size.

Two rounds of revisions are included in every package and cover any reasonable adjustment — content rewrites, tone changes, specific section rewriting, restructuring of how a Career Episode is framed. If after two rounds the draft still doesn’t meet your needs, we’ll discuss what’s missing and either continue revising at no additional cost (when the issue is on our side) or quote additional revision work (when the change is scope expansion beyond the original brief). We don’t refuse revision requests on the grounds of “you’ve used your two rounds” if the original brief wasn’t met.

No. The EA assessment fee (currently around A$907.50 for standard CDR assessment) is paid directly to Engineers Australia at submission, not through us. Same for Engineering NZ and ACS fees. We don’t collect or mark up the assessing body’s fees.

Our 98% positive outcome rate reflects past engagements but doesn’t guarantee your specific result. If EA returns a negative outcome on a CDR we wrote and the rejection grounds are within the scope of our work (compliance issues, Summary Statement errors, plagiarism in our drafted content), we’ll prepare the recovery rewrite at no additional charge under our outcome support guarantee. Rejections for issues outside our scope (qualification verification disputes, English language results, document attestation) aren’t covered since they aren’t issues we can affect through writing.

The Combined CDR + KA02 trans-Tasman engagement is the formal multi-service discount — you’re effectively getting both submissions for less than commissioning the same package twice. For other multi-engagement situations (for example, a CDR plus a separate Plagiarism Removal for a family member or colleague), we don’t routinely offer discounts but the consultation can address case-by-case scenarios.

No. Pricing is uniform regardless of where you’re based, what country your qualification is from, or which engineering or ICT discipline you’re in. The same Essential package is A$599 for a civil engineer from Egypt, a software engineer from Vietnam, or a mining engineer from Kazakhstan.

Honest answer: self-write the CDR, then commission our CDR Report Review at the Essential tier (A$599) for a senior-engineer audit before submission. Total cost is the EA assessment fee (A$907.50) plus our review (A$599) — significantly cheaper than commissioning a full writing engagement, and works well when you have time and ability to draft your own document. We mention this explicitly because we’d rather be honest about the cheapest route than capture a writing engagement that wasn’t actually needed.

The price difference reflects three things: the senior-consultant review pass (which costs us substantially more in writer hours), the 4-hour response targets during the engagement (which require dedicated writer availability), and the 5-day turnaround on a deliverable that takes 15–18 working days under normal cadence (which means the writer is working compressed hours on your engagement specifically). For most engagements, the value sits in Enhanced or Premium; Supreme exists for the specific situations where 5-day delivery and senior-consultant review actually matter.