Pricing

Five stages. The first one is free, the rest are priced before they start.

We do not quote a rate card, because an hourly rate tells you nothing about what a project costs. Every stage below has a stated price or a stated basis for one, and no stage begins until you have agreed the number for it.

Short answer

Five stages, each priced before it starts. The mini-audit is free and takes a few days. The full audit is $1–5k over one to two weeks and is credited in full against the build. A two-to-four-week pilot proves it on one real workflow before rollout is decided. The production build is a fixed quote against that scope — the average lands around $10k — in four to eight weeks. Support is monthly and cancellable.

What each stage costs

From your problem to a running system.

Stage 00
Mini-audit
Free
A few days

You bring the process that hurts. We take it apart with you and answer one question honestly: does automating this pay?

›A straight answer: automatable or not
›A rough size of the prize
›Scope and price for the full audit
›No fee, no obligation to continue
Stage 01
Full audit
$1–5k
1–2 weeks

The paid engineering study that turns a promising idea into a scoped, priced, de-risked project.

›Process and data map, exceptions included
›ROI projection with agreed success metrics
›Integration and feasibility assessment
›A fixed-price build proposal
›Credited against the build
Stage 02
Pilot
Fixed quote
2–4 weeks

A working proof on one real workflow, measured against the metrics the audit agreed — so rollout is decided on numbers, not on a proposal.

›A working pilot on your own data
›Results measured against the agreed targets
›A go/no-go recommendation, including no
›If it misses, we do not recommend the rollout
›The findings are yours either way
Stage 03
Production build
Fixed quote
4–8 weeks

The system itself, built to the scope agreed in the audit and priced before a line of it is written.

›Working system in your own stack
›Human-in-the-loop checkpoints where accuracy matters
›Monitoring, alerting and an audit trail
›Documentation and a handover session
›No vendor lock-in — the system is yours
Stage 04
Support retainer
Monthly
Optional, cancel anytime

Optional. For teams that want the system tuned and extended rather than frozen on the day it shipped.

›Ongoing tuning as your data shifts
›New scenarios and edge cases
›Monthly reporting against the metrics
›SLA-backed response
›Cancel any month, no exit fee

The full audit fee is credited in full against the production build, so if you go ahead you pay for it once. If you do not go ahead, the audit findings — the process map, the ROI model and the proposal — are yours to keep or to hand to someone else. In practice most clients arrive with one specific process and the free mini-audit is enough to scope it — the paid full audit is for when you want the whole operation mapped rather than a single flow. The pilot is its own stage with its own fixed quote: it is worth doing when going straight to production costs more than proving the thing on real data for two to four weeks. If the pilot misses the numbers we agreed, we do not recommend the rollout — and we say so plainly.

What moves the number

Why one build is $2k and another is six figures.

The span really is that wide. At one end sits a single narrow automation on one system; at the other, a platform that touches half a dozen of them and carries the exceptions. The average lands around $10k, because a lot of what we build is small. The build quote is not a guess we adjust to the client. It comes out of four things the audit measures, which is precisely why the audit exists — quoting a production system without one is how agencies end up in change-request arguments.

01

How many systems it touches

One mailbox and one database is a different project from five systems where two have no usable API. Integration surface is usually the single biggest line.

02

How messy the exceptions are

The happy path is rarely the work. What drives cost is the share of cases that break the rule, and how many of those the system has to handle rather than route to a person.

03

What accuracy has to be

A misfiled document and a mispriced invoice carry different consequences. Higher stakes mean more validation, more human checkpoints and more testing — all of which is build time.

04

What the compliance bar is

GDPR is the baseline everywhere we work. Regulated data, residency requirements or an audit regime add real engineering, and we price them rather than discovering them late.

Included

In every fixed quote.

›A senior engineer on the work — no junior hand-off after the sale
›Testing against your real data, not a demo set
›Monitoring and alerting so failures surface before your customers find them
›Documentation written for your team, not for us
›A handover session and the source — you can maintain it without us
›Fixes for anything that does not meet the agreed scope
Not included

Priced separately, or not by us.

·Third-party costs — model API usage, hosting, licences — which you pay at cost, directly
·New scope discovered after the audit: we quote it as a change, we do not absorb it silently
·Work outside the automation itself: process redesign your team must own, data your systems do not capture
·Legal groundwork in regulated settings — consent flows, DPAs, a BAA — which your counsel signs, not us

Questions about money

Because they are different amounts of work. The mini-audit is a conversation and a judgement call — a few days, no fee. The full audit is an engineering study: we map the real process including its exceptions, test feasibility against your systems, model the ROI and commit to a fixed build price. That takes one to two weeks of senior time, and it is what makes the fixed quote possible.

Bring us the process that hurts.

The mini-audit costs nothing and takes a few days. You will get a straight answer on whether automating it pays — and if it does, the scope and price for what comes next.

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