Remote
Most of mathematics has been developed without fucking meetings. Mail correspondence (exchange of written down well-articulated thoughts on a paper) was good-enough. Journals (publishing) was a big deal too.
Linux kernel is being successfully developed without fucking meetings. The complexity of this project way above a Boeing airliner or any other product created by a corporation. It is done by systematic exchange of text files.
This means that your petty project could be done just by writing things down and a systematic workflow of texts. This is what makes locations (and fucking meetings with degens) irrelevant and even harmful.
Last but not least, vastly complex cyber-criminal activities are “remote” and pseudo-anonymous, which is psychologically superior environments - less stress, less burden, less overwhelming, allows one to take time and write and think slowly, just like mathematicians of the past centuries.
I work only remotely and alone. The only things you could get from me is some sort of structured text files, in exchange for a pre-paid subscription.
Pre-paid GSM
Just as GSM operators optimize for minimization of loses (after spending heavily on its network infrastructure) so I am optimizing for minimization of my own potential loses of time and money after spending heavily on education and development of an expertise.
You (an organization of an individual CEO) presumably have a problem to be solved and a big budget for it. If you don’t have money allocated for this problem there is nothing to talk about.
So, just lie with pre-paid GSM plans, there is no service unless you pre-paid for it. Just as a GSM network does not care what you use it for, I don’t care what will you do with my code, math or writings. I just provide (partial) solutions for sub-problems as long as payments are.
If you are not satisfied you stop paying. If I receive no payments I stop working. It is that simple.
There is no way you can influence me other than paying or not. I don’t even want to meet you (leave alone to participate in your meetings) just like GSM network technicians never meet any single customer in person.
Individual, detailed protocols can be established for a particular business arrangements (which correspond to simplest possible contracts), but the main principle remain the same - of a pre-paid GSM network substitution.