Can you set systems up without a review first?

The review is where the price, the scope and the build order all come from, so I do not skip it, even when the problems feel obvious from the doorway. Quoting a set-up without one would mean pricing from a guess, and a guess dressed as a fixed fee is just risk moved onto whoever guessed worse. It would also mean building in an order chosen by instinct rather than by what each gap is actually costing, which is how firms end up with a beautifully configured register for a problem that was never the expensive one. If you already hold a recent and honest reading of your own systems, ask; whether it can stand in depends on whether it counted what the review counts, the hours and the exposure, rather than scoring maturity against a framework. The review's write-up is yours either way, so the worst case is knowing exactly where you stand.