Freelance pricing

A college friend of mine has a business that just got some seed funding and I reached out to him about the possibility of doing some consulting for him. I'm having a meeting next month to see behind the curtain a bit and see what their business problems are. I know they use AWS already and do have a database.

My question is how to price the work. Say they want like a dashboard and an ML model that predicts …

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