Pricing
A written AI roadmap is $4,500, fixed, and the whole of it comes off the cost of a build if you start one with us within 90 days. Process automation projects start at $12,000. Custom AI agents start at $20,000. Ongoing support, once something is live and you want it looked after, starts at $2,500 per month.
Before any of that there is a free 30-minute call, which costs nothing and commits you to nothing. It is a founder-led practice, so the person quoting the work is the person who would do it, and every project is quoted at a fixed figure before it starts.
AI Roadmap
Fixed$4,500
A written automation plan for your business, at a fixed price.
Two to three weeks of work: interviews with the people who do the job, a map of how work actually moves through your business today, and a ranked plan of what to automate and in what order. The plan is yours outright. You can build it with your own developers, take it to another firm, or bring it back here.
The full $4,500 comes off the cost of the build if you start one with us within 90 days.
- A process map of the workflows that matter, as they really run
- The costs and time each one is absorbing today, from your own figures
- A ranked shortlist of what to automate first, and what to leave alone
- A build specification detailed enough to hand to any developer
- A fixed quote for building it, if you want that quote
Best fit: Owners who know something should be automated but not what, or in what order.
What is in the roadmapBusiness Process Automation
From$12,000
Connecting the software you already pay for, so information stops being retyped.
Build work against a scoped plan. Intake forms that land in the CRM by themselves, invoices assembled without a person copying three screens into a fourth, follow-ups that happen whether or not somebody remembers. Nothing gets ripped out and replaced. What a project costs depends on how many systems are involved and how much they resist being connected.
- The connections between the systems you already run
- Error handling and alerting, so a silent failure is not the first you hear of it
- Documentation of what was built and how to change it
- A handover session with whoever will live with it
Best fit: Teams whose software is fine but whose work between the systems is manual.
Read about business process automationCustom AI Agents
From$20,000
Software that handles one repeating job and stops for your approval where it matters.
An agent trained on your own material that triages an inbox, drafts the reply, answers a first-line question or qualifies a lead. Where a decision has consequences it prepares the work and waits for a person to approve it. The starting figure covers a single agent, built, tested against your real cases, and put into service.
- One agent, scoped to one job it can do well
- Training on your own documents and past correspondence
- A human approval step before anything reaches a customer
- Testing against your real historic cases before it goes live
Best fit: Businesses where the same kind of request arrives all day, every day.
Read about custom ai agentsOngoing support
From$2,500per month
Keeping what was built working as the business around it changes.
Optional, and only worth taking on once something is live. Vendors change their software, volumes grow, and a process that fitted in March needs a different shape by September. This covers monitoring, fixes, and a running allowance for small changes.
- Monitoring of the automations that are live
- Fixes when a vendor changes something underneath them
- A monthly allowance for small changes and additions
- A named person to call, who is the person who built it
Best fit: Businesses running automation they now depend on.
Read about ongoing supportHow a project is quoted
The starting figures above are honest starting figures, not the cheapest thing that could be called a project. What decides where a specific build lands is how many systems have to be connected, whether those systems have a usable interface or have to be worked around, and how much of the process genuinely needs automating rather than simplifying.
That is what the roadmap settles. It ends with a fixed quote for the build, so the number you agree is the number you pay, and if the plan concludes that a change of process solves the problem without software, it says so.
Nothing on this page is an hourly rate. There is no billing meter running in the background and no invoice at the end that is bigger than the figure you agreed.
Questions people ask about the price
- Why is the roadmap a fixed price when the build work is not?
- The roadmap is the same piece of work every time: understand the business, map how work moves through it, and write the plan. The build is not. What it costs depends on how many systems have to be connected, how willing those systems are to be connected, and how much of the work genuinely needs automating rather than simplifying. Quoting a fixed figure for that before anyone has looked would be a guess dressed up as a price.
- What does the credit actually mean?
- The full $4,500 comes off the cost of the build if you start one with us within 90 days. It comes off the quote, not off an inflated price that was raised to absorb it, and the quote you are credited against is the fixed one written in the roadmap itself.
- Do I have to buy the roadmap before you will build anything?
- No, though most projects start there. If you already know exactly what you want built and can describe it, the build can be scoped directly. The roadmap exists for the much more common case, which is knowing that something should be automated without knowing which thing, or in what order.
- What happens on the free call, and what does it cost?
- Nothing, and half an hour. It is a conversation about how work moves through your business, and you leave it knowing the two or three processes most worth automating and a rough sense of what they would cost and how quickly they would pay for themselves. If the honest answer is that a process change fixes it for nothing, that is the answer you get.
- Is the support retainer required?
- No. It is worth having once something is live and the business depends on it, and it is a waste of money before that. Plenty of clients take the build and run it themselves, which is why the build is documented and handed over rather than kept in a black box.
- Are these prices negotiable?
- The roadmap price is fixed and is the same for everyone. The build figures are starting points, and what a specific project costs is written down in a fixed quote before any work begins. There are no hourly rates running in the background and no invoice at the end that is larger than the number you agreed.