Hourly billing
Your fee flattens at the hours in a day. The value you create keeps climbing.
A schematic, not a dataset: revenue is capped by hours you can sell, while the outcome you produce runs past it.
Value you create
Revenue you can bill
Value you can’t bill for
The flat line is the ceiling — about $325K/yr at $250/hr × 25 billable hrs (illustrative reference, ConsultFees). Hiring or raising rates only moves the ceiling; it never removes it.