A Romu case study · One real engagement

PROOF · ONE REAL ENGAGEMENT

One U.S. firm replaced a $5,448 drafting seat with a managed one at $1,000.

A real U.S. engineering & inspection firm runs dedicated drafting, inspection-report, and operations roles through Romu — fully managed from our own Manila entity, billed at a flat monthly rate you can set against the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Here is the engagement, in facts.

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The engagement, in facts
SECTOR
Industrial engineering & field inspection
SERVICES
CAD drafting · inspection reporting · project operations
ENGAGEMENT
Dedicated, fully-managed roles — ongoing
CLIENT
U.S. firm — identity withheld; named under NDA on a call, never in print
The numbers

U.S. drafter median salary alone

$5,448

$5,448/mo

Romu drafter, all-in, fully managed

$1,000

$1,000/mo

≈ $53,380/yr difference per seat — vs median salary alone

U.S. CAD drafter median $65,380/yr · BLS OOH, May 2024 · salary only

From our first published case study — a real U.S. engineering & inspection firm

PART ONE · THE SITUATION

You are the engineer, the estimator, the drafter, and the back office.

In a small engineering firm one person holds every role at once — and the drawings still have to go out. The drafting hat is the one that eats the evenings: it is constant, it is production work, and it sits between every bid and every issued report. A freelancer you cannot vouch for adds risk instead of removing it.

Shell rollout drawing from an API 653 internal tank inspection — client and identifiers redacted
Issued work product. Shell rollout from an API 653 internal tank inspection — the kind of drawing the team produces every business day; client and identifiers redacted.
PART TWO · THE RESOLUTION

One hat off the owner, in three managed steps.

The firm did not hire a freelancer or open a foreign payroll. It handed the drafting hat to a dedicated specialist Romu recruited, the owner approved, and Romu now runs day to day.

  1. Scope the seat

    the outcome and CAD standard; we spec the seat against your work.

  2. Meet your match

    recruited from our own Manila entity; you approve before day one.

  3. We manage delivery

    U.S. hours in your tools; named QA checklist before every issue.

PRICING · FLAT, SET AGAINST THE U.S. MEDIAN

Pricing

  • U.S. CAD drafter — median salary alone, no benefits, no overhead

    $5,448/mo

  • Romu — dedicated full-time drafter. All-in flat: recruiting, payroll, QA, management

    $1,000/mo

  • Romu — drafter + 20 hrs engineering analysis. All-in flat: monthly analysis hours included

    $1,800/mo

U.S. CAD drafter median $65,380/yr ($5,448/mo); U.S. mechanical engineer median $102,320/yr ($8,527/mo) — BLS OOH, May 2024 · salary only.

Each additional dedicated CAD drafter or engineer: volume pricing — set in your matching call.

If a placement is not meeting your standard, we run the search again and replace the specialist at no added fee — a defined step you can hold us to, not a sentiment.

PART THREE · WHAT YOU CAN VERIFY

Every line above is a fact we will put in front of you.

THE WORK
Daily drafting and inspection-report production for a real U.S. engineering & inspection firm — issued every business day.
THE PEOPLE
Direct employees of our own Manila entity: recruiting, payroll, QA, and management under one roof.
THE GUARANTEE
If a placement is not meeting your standard, we replace the specialist at no added fee.
THE PRICE
$1,000/mo for one dedicated drafter · $1,800/mo with 20 hrs engineering analysis · volume thereafter — all-in, flat.
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