[Intro]

Nine o'clock, the consultant enters
Visitor badge against his coat
His name is Lawrence Sterling
Principal Solution Guide
"Before we touch the settings,
Let us first align the sides"

[Verse]

Mara shows the broken workflow
Three fields placed in the wrong order
Lawrence listens without blinking
Then requests a project charter
"We should schedule one discovery,
One alignment, one review"
Priya says, "It takes one checkbox"
Lawrence nods and takes a note

[Pre-Chorus]

Every answer starts a meeting
Every meeting starts a sheet
Every sheet becomes approval
Every hour finds a fee

[Chorus]

It's a professional services day
Every question has a rate
Every minute on the calendar
Has a purchase order date
Nothing moves inside your platform
Without a professional services day

[Verse]

At eleven comes the architect
At noon, the one in charge
At one they break for catered lunch
At two they weigh and chart
Ben asks when the defect's repaired
Lawrence says, "Not today —
Technical remediation
Needs a separate statement phase"

[Chorus]

It's a professional services day
Every question has a rate
Every minute on the calendar
Has a purchase order date
Nothing moves inside your platform
Without a professional services day

[Guitar Solo]

[Invoice Ledger]

First invoice: preparation.
Second invoice: discovery.
Third invoice: documentation.
Fourth invoice: strategic delivery.

Travel time from the hotel lobby,
Administrative review,
Thirty minutes reading emails
Billed as client follow-through.

[Bridge]

Pay for the meeting. Pay for the chair.
Pay for the hour before anyone's there.
Pay for the finding. Pay for the fix.
Pay for the person who schedules all six.

[Build-up]

Mara takes the printed invoice —
Forty columns, seven sheets
At the bottom, one conclusion:
"Additional scope to be agreed"

[Final Chorus]

It's a professional services day
Every problem learns to pay
Every feature needs a workshop
Every workshop needs a phase
You can own the whole solution
But you rent the hands that make it change

[Outro]

Lawrence closes his approved machine
At 5:01 exactly
"Thank you for your partnership —
My coordinator will contact thee"

The organ rolls through empty chairs
The invoice waits in Victor's tray