[tootie]

I mean, I've worked on plenty 7-8 figure programs for Fortune 50 companies of all kinds and that has not been my experience at all. I've even worked for FAANG clients who didn't know what they wanted until we tell them. The kind of work I did (I am exiting the consulting world as of this week) was very consumer-facing and creative driven. I can estimate tech work as well as anyone, but there's always too many moving parts to a big project to know how everything will fall into place.

[FpUser]

I did work on similarly sized contracts but I was at the time a CTO and had like team of 30 on that project under my supervision.

Everything fell into places. But that was after few month long and expensive exploration phase that along qualified for decent contract.

After I went on my own I handle smaller contracts that are easier to eyeball. Well small is relative as in one case licensing fees alone over a period of time went well into 7 figure territory. But yeah I no longer had to direct 30 people and did not have 20 persons on a client side bugging me every day and being under constant stress ;)