Frontier Security Institute [PLAN]
For
Susan Malandrino, Vice President for Communications, Frontier Security Institute
From
Mike Marrotte, Signalform Studio
Subject
October and November: what’s on offer
Date
2026-10-05

Everything you’ve asked for, built through November and handed over on the 30th. Worth $44,850 at my production rate. Yours for $27,800.

Worth
$44,850
You pay
$27,800
Films
Separate, underway

FSI’s support since April helped my business grow to the point where I’ve formalized Signalform’s services and pricing. Other clients are seeing them now, and I want you to see them too. The retainer covered far more than $6,500 a month pays for, and I’m not back-charging any of it. FSI keeps a special offer as a trusted pilot partner: the deal is below, and you can dial it in as you see fit.

  • Creative direction, through November$4,800
  • The rebrand: independent brand rollout kit$6,000
  • Brand book, your eight sections$8,400
  • Templates, rebranded$3,600
  • Website: build the rest$9,000
  • Cards, folders and print$3,000
  • Banners, already underway$1,200 · on me
  • Handoff on November 30$1,800 · on me

Take anything out and the price follows.

The Reader is Signalform’s own publishing framework, built from scratch. A Word manuscript becomes an interactive paper: a front page built to hold readers, notes that open in place, and the whole paper read aloud. FSI’s edition carries FSI’s brand and FSI’s papers, and FSI owns its content. The framework stays Signalform’s.

FSI is the pilot, so the license is free through December. From January it’s $1,500 a month, half the standard rate, held for as long as FSI keeps it. Ike’s paper is already built, so that one’s on me.

  • Reader license, free through December$3,000 · on me
  • Ike’s paper, already built$1,350 · on me
  • Paper two, manuscript to Reader$1,350
  • Paper three, manuscript to Reader$1,350
About the Signalform Reader

Since April I’ve been building Signalform alongside your work. In December it launches properly: Signalform Studio builds the systems behind an organization’s work, so the team can run it themselves. When FSI is funded, that’s what’s on offer. Anything else, I can still make at production rates.

See what that system looks like

Pick what matters most, take out what doesn’t, and the price follows. Then a short call with Jeremy to settle the scope and the payment schedule.