Feras Alhlou explains a hybrid pricing model for freelancers: break work into blocks like 10-hour chunks, pause after each to update the client and get approval. This creates natural checkpoints and caps your commitment while keeping flexibility, sitting between fixed-price and pure hourly rates.
Even if your hourly rate is spot on, how do you give clients clarity without boxing yourself in? Use this other approach that has worked extremely well for me. Break the work into blocks. You and the client agree that after each, say, 10-hour block, you'll pause, update the client on progress, and then get their approval to continue. It creates natural checkpoints without committing to a fixed deadline. Fixed scope. This way you've set expectations, the client sees a cap, and you still have flexibility.
