Custom scopes. Fixed fees.
No SaaS pricing tiers. No per-seat fees. No metered tokens. Every engagement is scoped from the workflow up, priced as a fixed fee, and delivered to a written agreement. The only thing that varies between buyers is the workflow itself.
Indicative ranges, not a price list. Final fee is set after Phase 0 discovery and quoted in the engagement letter.
Two parts. One straight line.
An engagement has two parts: a fixed-fee build, and an optional monthly maintenance retainer after handover. The build is a defined scope with a written end-state. The retainer is month-to-month after a brief minimum, billed predictably, cancellable when you don't need it.
Build engagement
A defined scope, priced once, delivered to a written end-state. Includes all five build phases (Instrument · Design · Build · Prove · Hand over) and every artifact in the deliverable list.
- 50% on signing, 50% on completion
- Eval harness in your CI
- Runbooks, training, full handover
- Code and access live in your accounts, not ours
Maintenance retainer
Active monitoring, drift detection, and on-demand small changes after hand-over. Sized to the system, billed predictably.
- Monthly health check
- Drift detection on the eval set
- On-demand minor changes
- Three-month minimum, then month-to-month
Boundaries we hold to. Up front.
Included in every engagement
- All engineering, evals, and runbooks
- Training session for your operators
- Full handover of code, credentials, dashboards
- 30 days of office-hours support post-handover
Not included (you pay these directly)
- Cloud hosting fees (AWS / GCP / Vercel / etc.)
- Third-party API costs (OpenAI / Anthropic / etc.)
- Third-party tooling licenses (Linear, Datadog, etc.)
- Custom integrations not named in the signed scope
Four steps. No deck.
- Tell us about the workflow. A paragraph is enough. The form on the homepage asks four questions; all four are optional except your email.
- 30-minute scoping call. We ask about volume, current pain, what "good" looks like. We come prepared.
- Fixed-fee proposal within 5 business days. Scope, deliverables, timeline, fee. One page.
- Sign and kickoff. Phase 01 starts the Monday after sign.
Why fixed-fee instead of hourly?
Hourly bills incentivize the wrong things — slow delivery, unnecessary scope expansion, vague endings. Fixed-fee aligns our incentives with yours: ship the thing, ship it fast, ship it right. If we're efficient, we both win.
What if scope changes mid-engagement?
We re-scope at phase boundaries, not in the middle. Phase boundaries are a feature: they're the natural stopping points where adding or removing scope is cheap. Mid-phase, we deliver what we signed up for.
Do you take equity?
No. We work on cash. It keeps the relationship simple and the incentives clean.
Is there a minimum engagement size?
Effectively yes — most of our work is full builds, not piecework. The smallest engagements we take are operations audits (half-day to one-day, written report). For anything bigger, the four-week build is the natural shape.
Do you sign NDAs?
Yes. We sign mutual NDAs before any scoping work starts. We can also work under your standard MSA if you have one.