Keltham is not particularly expecting the alchemist's personally derived secret knowledge, relative to more public and commonly known alchemical knowledge, to contribute even 0.1% of what Keltham remembers from an entire alternate world with a vastly more advanced comprehension of nonmagical materials science.  As produced by literally millions of alchemist-equivalents with 20+ Intelligence, freely sharing results with each other, and paying 'patentgratuities' on useful discoveries in proportion to how useful they were.

If the 'patentgratuity' methodology was applied to the Project, they'd end up paying him for the two weeks of time that ended up being saved by their using his secret oxygen production technique, or more if it later turns out that it'd have taken longer than two weeks to get lightning-based water splitting going.

The basis on which Keltham had been planning to do this was that, if the guy proved as valuable as a regular Project employee, Keltham was going to offer him the 0.1% share of the Project that non-elite employees get; if as valuable as an elite Project employee, the 0.2% that elites get.  That'll be hard for him to sustain over time, as the younger Project employees learn more new methods and math, but earlier contributions are also more valuable.  Those shares of the Project do need to last through all the employees that will prove worthy of them; later employees will get offered more like 0.01%.

If the alchemist isn't happy with either of those, the Project will pay his regular consult fees, not give him a share of the Project, and use only what's public knowledge in Golarion.  Keltham assumes the guy has already signed the standard non-disclosure agreement saying that he cannot, without the Project's permission, use or talk about stuff like Prestidigitation chemistry?  Also, can the guy use Prestidigitation because if not he may need to spend a week picking that up.

Keltham is not particularly expecting the alchemist's personally derived secret knowledge, relative to more public and commonly known alchemical knowledge, to contribute even 0.1% of what Keltham remembers from an entire alternate world with a vastly more advanced comprehension of nonmagical materials science.  As produced by literally millions of alchemist-equivalents with 20+ Intelligence, freely sharing results with each other, and paying 'patentgratuities' on useful discoveries in proportion to how useful they were.

If the 'patentgratuity' methodology was applied to the Project, they'd end up paying him for the two weeks of time that ended up being saved by their using his secret oxygen production technique, or more if it later turns out that it'd have taken longer than two weeks to get lightning-based water splitting going.

The basis on which Keltham had been planning to do this was more prenegotiated though: if the guy proved as valuable as a regular Project employee, Keltham was going to offer him the 0.1% share of the Project that non-elite employees get; if as valuable as an elite Project employee, the 0.2% that elites get.  That'll be hard for him to sustain over time, as the younger Project employees learn more new methods and math, but earlier contributions are also more valuable.  Those shares of the Project do need to last through all the employees that will prove worthy of them; later employees will get offered more like 0.01%.

If the alchemist isn't happy with either of those, the Project will pay his regular consult fees, not give him a share of the Project, and use only what's public knowledge in Golarion.  Keltham assumes the guy has already signed the standard non-disclosure agreement saying that he cannot, without the Project's permission, use or talk about stuff like Prestidigitation chemistry?  Also, can the guy use Prestidigitation because if not he may need to spend a week picking that up.

Keltham is not particularly expecting the alchemist's personally derived secret knowledge, relative to more public and commonly known alchemical knowledge, to contribute even 0.1% of what Keltham remembers from an entire alternate world with a vastly more advanced comprehension of nonmagical materials science.  As produced by literally millions of alchemist-equivalents with 20+ Intelligence, freely sharing results with each other, and paying 'patentgratuities' on useful discoveries in proportion to how useful they were.

If the 'patentgratuity' methodology was applied to the Project, they'd end up paying him for the two weeks of time that ended up being saved by their using his secret oxygen production technique, or more if it later turns out that it'd have taken longer than two weeks to get lightning-based water splitting going.

The basis on which Keltham had been planning to do this was more prenegotiated though: if the guy proved as valuable as a regular Project employee, Keltham was going to offer him the 0.1% share of the Project that non-elite employees get; if as valuable as an elite Project employee, the 0.2% that elites get.  That'll be harder for him to sustain over time, as the younger Project employees learn more new methods and math, but earlier contributions are also more valuable.  Those shares of the Project do need to last through all the employees that will prove worthy of them; later employees will get offered more like 0.01%.

If the alchemist isn't happy with either of those, the Project will pay his regular consult fees, not give him a share of the Project, and use only what's public knowledge in Golarion.  Keltham assumes the guy has already signed the standard non-disclosure agreement saying that he cannot, without the Project's permission, use or talk about stuff like Prestidigitation chemistry?  Also, can the guy use Prestidigitation because if not he may need to spend a week picking that up.