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How We Will
Work Together

The programme will develop progressively, with each phase establishing information and decisions required by the next.

A simple shared project tracker will give Shizuku visibility of completed work, work in progress, required decisions or input, and upcoming milestones. During active development, Rui and the relevant Shizuku team will hold approximately fortnightly reviews alongside the tastings, training and working sessions required by each phase.

Shizuku will nominate a primary point of contact to consolidate feedback and decisions. Where work depends on information or approval from Shizuku — particularly commercial parameters, operational decisions, retail direction or final creative decisions — these dependencies will be identified clearly.

Normal review and feedback should be provided within approximately five working days where possible. Material delays in required information, feedback or decisions may require corresponding adjustments to the project timetable.

Where a simpler route can achieve the required result without compromising the programme, Rui may recommend it so that specialist time and project resources remain focused where they provide greatest value.

Where a material change to the commercial model, service format, elemental framework, opening schedule or agreed tea requirements creates substantial rework or new development, the implications for scope, timing and fee will be discussed before additional work proceeds.

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Proposed
Project Fee

The proposed project fee for Tea Programme Direction & Development through opening is:

The revised scope reflects Shizuku's feedback by reducing development work around the already-established creative framework of Heat, Water, Air and Light and focusing Rui's involvement more directly on programme architecture, tea development, sourcing, specialist assessment, brewing, service, knowledge transfer, training and implementation.

At the same time, the revised brief introduces a wider tea offering, Shizuku Breakfast Tea development, retail and cross-programme mapping, a written Brewing & Service Manual and a train-the-trainer requirement. The overall body of work has therefore expanded from the original proposal while the proposed project fee remains unchanged.

If £16,000 represents a firm project budget, Rui is happy to review the scope with Shizuku and identify work that can genuinely be removed or retained internally before confirming the engagement, rather than reducing the depth of the same work.

The team will agree on any cocktail tea sourcing or development that Phase 01 identifies as materially additional to the core programme before proceeding, and scope it separately where appropriate.