At the start we had a first call with a brief presentation and talk about what a: the company is looking for and b: what I am looking for.
2nd live meeting was an in-person meeting with the founders, here we discussed previous experiences and how/what should be done and is expected.
3rd was a project discussion / workshop through which we went through specific plans for a 3-month trial period of working together.
4th trial period - here we started working together and got the opportunity for concrete feedback about our collaboration.
5 contract signed