Pricing · published on purpose

Flat fees, fixed quotes, and AI costs billed at cost.

No hourly meters. No surprise invoices. You will know every number before we start, and the metered AI usage runs in your own account, never marked up.

Most agencies in this market will not publish a number. We do, because a price you can compare is a price we have to defend.

FeeWhat it coversAmount

Discovery callThirty minutes. Fit, questions, and an honest read on whether automation helps you at all. If it doesn’t, we say so on this call.FreeAnytime

Opportunity auditConsultation feeA 60 to 90 minute workflow-mapping session, then a written report: three to five automation candidates ranked by payback, each with a fixed build quote and a feasibility check.$500One-time · credited toward your build

Automation buildSetup feeOne to three workflows designed, built in accounts you own, shadow-tested five to seven days against live data, documented, and trained to your team.$2,500–5,000Fixed quote after the audit

Operations partnerMonthly retainerThree separate line items, not a bucket of hours: keeping it running, capacity to improve it, and someone on call when it breaks. Detailed below.From $1,500Per month · 30-day notice to cancel

AI & hosting usagePass-throughThe AI’s metered cost plus workflow hosting, billed directly in accounts you own. On our own trial we measured about 0.2¢ per email classified.At costTypically $10–50/mo · never marked up

The retainer · three line items

Most retainers die in month four.

The launch work finishes, the backlog empties, and the agency starts finding work to justify the invoice. That happens because the retainer was priced in hours, and hours are not something you can recognise on a statement.

So ours is not hours. It is three things you can point at, priced separately, reported monthly.

01 KEEP THE LIGHTS ON

It stays running

The unglamorous work that stops a working system from quietly rotting.

Failure and absence alerting
Dependency and security patching
Log review and uptime monitoring
Backup verification
Credential and token rotation

Priced by system surface area: integrations, environments, and data sources under management. Never by hours.

02 ITERATION CAPACITY

It gets better

A fixed block of build time each month, spent on what you decide is worth doing next.

You set the priority, we estimate
Named owner on both sides
Minimum two weeks of capacity
One month of carry-over, no more

Sold in engineer-weeks. Below two weeks nothing meaningful ships, so we do not sell less.

03 ON CALL

Someone answers

Published response targets, so escalation is a contract rather than a favour.

Named escalation path
Severity targets published below
Business hours or extended
Incident write-up after every Sev 1

Priced per environment as an uplift on the first two items, scaled to the coverage window you need.

Severity 1Production down. The automation is not running and work is not getting done.30 min acknowledge · 60 min engineer engaged

Severity 2Degraded. It runs, but it is getting things wrong or running late.2 hr acknowledge · 2 day resolution target

Severity 3Cosmetic or low impact. Worth fixing, not worth waking anyone.Triaged into iteration capacity

Terms · the parts that protect you

Every one of these exists so you are never trapped.

Cancel with 30 days, any reason

No annual lock-in and no exit interview. If the system no longer needs us, that is the automation working.

Pause for up to 60 days a year

At 25% of the retainer, monitoring stays on. For slow seasons, so a quiet quarter does not force you to cancel and rebuild.

You own everything

Built in your accounts, your platform, your keys. We hold least-privilege access. Leave whenever you like and nothing breaks.

A handover pack, kept current

Runbooks, architecture notes, and credentials documented and refreshed quarterly. Not written on the way out the door.

One page, every month

Same format each time: what was patched, what shipped, what broke, what it cost, and one recommendation for next month.

We will tell you to stop

If iteration capacity goes unused three months running, we will propose downsizing you to monitoring and on-call only.

Book the Audit — $500 See the field record