Engagement models
You will not find a rate card here, because an honest number depends on your process, your systems and your volumes. What you will find is exactly what each stage delivers and what is excluded.
Three models
Discovery is a fixed fee, the pilot is a fixed price, production is a monthly retainer. Nothing is billed until the scope is written down and you have approved it.
Fixed fee · 1–2 weeks
You know something is automatable but not what it is worth
Commercial Fixed fee, credited against the pilot if you continue
Fixed scope · 2–4 weeks
You want proof on your data before committing a budget
Commercial Fixed price per pilot, agreed before we start
Monthly · from production to steady state
You want the system in production and someone accountable for it
Commercial Monthly retainer with a defined scope and exit terms
Bring one process to a 45-minute call. We will tell you what it is worth automating, what we would charge for discovery, and whether the honest answer is “leave it alone”.
What the discovery fee buys
What is never included
Our principle We charge for engineering judgement, not for reselling tokens or licences. If a cheaper model or a simpler non-AI approach does the job, we will say so.
Straight answers
No “contact us for details”. If the answer is “it depends”, we say what it depends on.
Pilot in two to four weeks from kickoff, including discovery and blueprint. That assumes we get read access to a sandbox and a sample of real documents or tickets in the first week — that sample is the usual cause of delay.
Discovery is a fixed fee, the pilot is a fixed price, and production is a monthly retainer with a defined scope. We quote after discovery because the honest number depends on your process, not on a price list. If a process is not worth automating, we say so and charge only for discovery.
No. We integrate with what you run — ERP, CRM, ticketing, data warehouse, and the legacy application with no API. Replacing your core systems is a different project and usually a worse idea than automating around them.
Whatever the task and your constraints justify: frontier APIs where quality matters most, open-weight models you can self-host where data cannot leave your environment, and classical methods where a model is the wrong tool. We benchmark on your data during the pilot and document why we chose what we chose.
Next step
Send one process with its rough monthly volume. On the call we will give you a discovery price and a realistic pilot budget before you commit to anything.
One business day — and the reply comes from an engineer, not a sales sequence
