Pricing · all figures in USD, excluding tax
Here are our floors, what moves them, and the cases where you should not hire us at all. PKR quotes are available for clients invoicing in Pakistan.
Process audit
Free30 minutes
We map one process with you and tell you whether it is worth automating — including when the answer is that it is not.
Best forAnyone who is not yet sure there is a project here.
Project
Most commonfrom $4,500fixed scope, fixed price
Most land between $8,000 and $30,000
A defined deliverable with a written scope and a price agreed before the majority of the budget is committed.
Best forA clear outcome — a site, an integration, an internal tool, an AI feature.
Retainer
from $2,500per month
A standing block of capacity for continued improvement, support, and the work that keeps arriving after launch.
Best forSomething live that needs to keep improving rather than just keep running.
Embedded
from $7,000per engineer, per month
Our people in your standups, your board and your repository, reporting to your leads for a set term.
Best forA team at capacity that needs senior hands rather than a separate vendor.
Whatever the shape, the scoping conversation is free and the price is agreed in writing before most of the budget is committed. You own the code, it lives in your accounts, and leaving is not expensive.
Side by side
| Item | Process audit | Project | Retainer | Embedded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | from $4,500 | from $2,500 | from $7,000 |
| Unit | 30 minutes | fixed scope, fixed price | per month | per engineer, per month |
| Written scope | – | ✓ | – | – |
| Prototype of the riskiest part first | – | ✓ | – | – |
| Monitoring and alerting | – | – | ✓ | – |
| Works inside your team | – | – | – | ✓ |
| Notice or minimum term | none | the project | one month | three months |
| Obligation after | none | none | one month's notice | the term |
What moves it
So you can place yourself in the range before we speak.
A legacy or on-premise system with no sandbox means building blind and verifying carefully. That costs time.
Getting an AI step from 90% to 97% can cost more than everything before it. Sometimes the honest answer is a review queue instead.
Real requirements with real work behind them — not a surcharge, but not free either.
If you know exactly how the work flows today, we skip the most expensive part of discovery.
The first one establishes the pattern. The next ones are cheaper because of it.
Less to invent, less to agree, less to redo.
Don’t hire us
We would rather lose the enquiry here than three weeks into a project that was never going to work.
We are deliberately small. If your project needs a large team working simultaneously, we are the wrong shape and will say so on the first call.
Below that we cannot do the scoping properly, and a badly scoped project is worse than none. A freelancer is often genuinely the better answer at that size.
If there is no repetitive, rule-bounded decision underneath, a model will add cost and unpredictability. We will tell you that instead of taking the work.
We build the system. We cannot be accountable for the sales targets or operational decisions it feeds into — anyone promising that is selling you something else.
Book the free audit: thirty minutes, one process mapped, and a straight answer on whether it is worth doing. No proposal attached.