I recently left Square to start a product consultancy&portfolio with a colleauge of mine. One of our primary principles (we have a few) is "Time to think" so we

I recently left Square to start a product consultancy&portfolio with a colleauge of mine. One of our primary principles (we have a few) is "Time to think" so we structure our working week with 3 days of work, 1 day of potential meetings and one day of company time working on building a product portfolio. Our clients seem to like it as we give them time to get back to us. We are not cheap but we (think) we provide a lot of value. Furthermore we avoid the hours spent discussion and only do days/months. This model is not for all businesses but it works surpringly well both for us and the kind of clients we work with.