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Pricing

Engagement models and pricing.

Three ways to work together. Predictable monthly fees, no token bills, no scope-creep math. Scoped after a free strategy call so the engagement is sized to the actual work.

The three tiers

The full picture before you book a call.

More detail on what each engagement covers, who it fits, and what the first month looks like. Same data that drives the homepage engagement-models section, expanded for the pricing page.

Where most clients start

AI Employee

An AI employee that knows your business and improves every week.

We build it, run it, monitor it, and ship you async updates. Everything is included: setup, integrations, monitoring, support, ongoing improvements. You don't touch tokens, models, or infrastructure. You just get the work done.

Starting from

From $5,000/month

Best for

  • AI-curious operators who want outcomes without managing the tech
  • Agency owners tired of repeating the same handoffs every week
  • Law firm partners buried in intake, document review, and client emails
  • Real estate teams running the same lead-to-close loop on every transaction
  • Marketing agencies that need a deliverable machine, not another tool

What you walk away with

  • Reclaim hours of repetitive work each week on the highest-ROI workflows
  • Predictable monthly cost with no token bills or scope-creep math
  • Monitored and fixed continuously. We know before you do
  • Ship improvements every week without hiring another person
  • Scale operations without scaling headcount

What's included

  • Discovery and design in week one
  • First workflow built and shipped in week one
  • Continuous monitoring with a customer-facing kanban
  • Async Loom updates on every change
  • Weekly shipped improvements, monthly roadmap review
Book a free strategy call

For defined builds

Project

A scoped build with a clear outcome and a fixed price.

For defined builds: an MVP, a migration, a productized internal tool, or a CivicOS-style product engagement. Fixed scope, fixed timeline, and a real artifact at the end.

Starting from

From $15,000

Best for

  • Technical founders with a specific scoped build to ship
  • Product teams that need a defined outcome in a defined window
  • Companies that want AI-integrated features baked in from day one

What you walk away with

  • Go from idea to launched product in weeks, not quarters
  • Scoped fixed-price engagement with clear deliverables
  • Production-grade architecture that survives real users
  • AI-integrated features baked in from the first commit

What's included

  • Discovery and scoped architecture document
  • Production-grade build and tests
  • Launch, monitoring setup, and a clean handoff
  • Architecture notes and owner documentation
  • AI-integrated features baked in from the first commit
Book a free strategy call

For teams that need capacity

Team Augmentation

Founder-level engineers who embed with your team.

Embedded engineers or fractional CTO support when you need senior capacity, not another staffing layer. Capacity is intentionally limited and founder-led, so every engagement stays close to the people doing the work.

Starting from

From $150/hour

Best for

  • Engineering teams that need senior full-stack, backend, or platform capacity
  • Founders who need fractional technical leadership without a full-time CTO hire

What you walk away with

  • Start with senior, hands-on support instead of a long hiring cycle
  • Flexible engagement that expands or winds down as the work changes
  • Direct access to the people shaping architecture and delivery
  • Knowledge transfer that makes your existing team stronger

What's included

  • Senior full-stack, backend, or platform capacity
  • Architecture and code review inside your repo
  • Direct access to the people shaping delivery
  • Knowledge transfer that makes your team stronger
  • Flexible scope that expands or winds down with the work
Book a free strategy call

Every engagement is scoped to your actual situation after a free strategy call. The starting-from prices cover the typical engagement shape. Most clients sit comfortably inside the range. Annual and longer commitments are discussed on the call, not assumed.

Side by side

Compare the engagement models.

The full comparison: scope, timeline, who runs it, how cancellation works, and what the audit trail looks like. The AI Employee tier is the primary offer. Most clients start there and add a second once the first one is showing value.

Tier

Compare

AI Employee

$5,000/month

Project

$15,000

Team Augmentation

$150/hour

Best for

Teams buried in repetitive work that an AI employee could own end-to-end.Technical founders with a specific scoped build to ship in a defined window.Engineering teams that need senior capacity without another hiring cycle.

Engagement model

SubscriptionFixed-scope projectHourly, flexible

Starting from

$5,000 / month$15,000 per project$150 / hour

Typical timeline

Ongoing, month-to-month4–8 weeksFlexible, weekly

First deliverable

First workflow live within week oneWorking build delivered at the end of the projectSenior support and review from week one

Who manages it

We build, run, monitor, and improve it.You own it after handoff.You own it; we sit inside your team.

Cancellation

Month-to-month, 30-day noticeEnd of the projectEnd of the week

Outcome

Improves every week after launchShipped artifact and handoffYour team grows stronger with embedded support

Founder involvement

Yes, the people who shape the scope are the ones shipping the work.Variable, scoped to the project.Yes, embedded with your team.

Audit trail

Async Loom updates and a customer-facing kanbanFinal handoff document and source repoCode review notes and handoff log

Not sure yet?

Try the savings calculator.

See roughly how much time and money your team is spending on the work an AI Employee could take over. Takes 30 seconds, no signup, and you can bring the numbers to a strategy call if you want a real read.

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Rough ROI estimate based on the workflows you describe.

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Pricing questions

The honest answers before you book a call.

Most pricing hesitation comes down to a few specific questions. Here are the ones we hear most often, and the answers we give on a strategy call.

Still wondering? Bring the question to a free 30-minute strategy call. We'll give you the same answer you'd hear on day one.

Ready to scope an AI Employee for your business?

Bring the slowest workflow, the messiest handoff, or the most annoying manual task. We'll help you turn it into something the team can actually keep using.

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