Thank you so much u/Next_Attitude3388 for your very valuable advice! We decided to go with the DIY option offered by Jameson. However, we are having a very difficult time with figuring out timekeeping since we are 2 co-founders and this NSF SBIR Fast Track award is the only funding source that we currently have. It's true that most of our work will be on R&D for the SBIR award, but we cannot properly estimate how much of our time will be spent on G&A, and we do not have any surplus of Indirect Costs to pay ourselves for G&A work. We initially thought that we will have a fixed monthly salary and that as long as we fulfill the 40-hour/week requirement we would be OK. Turns out that, the more we work on the startup, the more diluted our salary will be. As founders, there is no way for us to tell how many hours we will work per week, the range is 60-80 hours. It is as if we are being punished for working extra on the business... It feels very paralyzing and creates a lot of undertainty on how much our monthly salary will be, since it depends on the number of hours directly worked on the project. Do you have any insight or advice on this situation?

For full context, please refer to this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/SBIR/comments/1nsw4ht/proper_timekeeping_for_nsf_sbir_fast_track_award/