Pricing
Legible, not a mystery call.
Seven of the nine engagements carry a published range. Two do not, and the reason is written next to each of them rather than left for you to guess.
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$2,500 paid pilot, credited in full
One scoped piece of work — a cost teardown, a targeted review, one question answered with evidence. If you go ahead, all $2,500 comes off the engagement. If you do not, the work is still yours and there is nothing further to pay. It exists so you can buy proof before you buy a project.
Every engagement
LLM Cost & Routing Sprint
3 weeks · CFO or CTO
Fixed for the scope agreed on the call. Moves with the number of services and models in play, not with how much you spend.
$15-20K
Agent Production Audit
2 weeks · CTO or VP Engineering
Scales with the number of services, models, and tenants in scope. Set on the call.
from $12K
Agent Governance & Insurability Package
3-4 weeks · CISO, or CFO through the policy renewal · beta pricing
Beta pricing. This package is new, so the price is being set against real scopes rather than guessed in advance. Bring yours to the call and the number comes out of it — not out of a template.
$18-30K
AI Compliance Package — EU Article 50 plus US module
3 weeks · DPO, General Counsel, or Head of Compliance
The EU module is the base. The US state module (Texas, Colorado, California) is scoped separately depending on where you operate.
$15-25K
Fractional AI Architect
3 months minimum · CTO or VP Engineering
Three tiers: 8, 12, or 20 hours per week. Three-month minimum, because anything shorter is a project, not a retainer.
$9-15K/mo
Reliability Foundation — SLOs and evals in CI
3 weeks · CTO or VP Engineering
Fixed for the agreed scope. Moves with the number of services instrumented.
$12-18K
Substrate Build
6-8 weeks · CTO
For reference, past builds of this shape have landed in the $45-75K range over six to eight weeks. The number depends entirely on tenancy model, cloud, and how much already exists — quoting a range before seeing that would be guessing at your expense.
Quoted on the call
Pre-audit preparation — LL144 and bias audits
1-2 weeks · General Counsel or Head of People
Scales with the number of tools and decision points in scope.
$8-12K
Production emergency
Days · Whoever can say yes today
A public price on an emergency is a number you would negotiate against while your system is on fire. Triage comes first, then a number, then the work.
Priced after triage
How contracting works
A short master agreement plus a one-page scope, so your legal team reviews the master once and every later engagement is a single page. Mutual NDA where you need one, and your paper is fine if your process requires it.
Fixed-scope work is half on signature and half on delivery. Retainers are monthly in advance, cancellable with 30 days' notice. Net 15 throughout.
Code and documents produced during an engagement are yours from the first commit, in your repositories, on your infrastructure.
Questions people actually ask
Why publish prices at all?
Because the alternative is a discovery call that is really a blind auction, and both sides waste a week finding out they were never in the same range. If the number on this page is wrong for you, you have learned that in ten seconds instead of two meetings.
What is the $2,500 pilot?
A short, paid, scoped piece of work — a cost teardown, a targeted review, a specific question answered with evidence. If you go ahead with the full engagement, the full $2,500 comes off the price. If you do not, you keep the work and owe nothing further.
What moves a price within its range?
Number of services and models in scope, number of tenants, how many clouds are involved, and how much already exists. Not how much you spend, not how much you raised, and not how urgent it feels.
Why are two of them not priced?
The platform build because scope genuinely dominates the number, and quoting a range before seeing the tenancy model would be guessing at your expense. The emergency because publishing a price on an incident is a number you would negotiate against while your system is on fire.
Do you invoice hourly?
No, other than the fractional tiers, which are priced by weekly hours. Everything else is fixed for an agreed scope, so the incentive is to finish rather than to linger.
What about payment terms?
Half on signature, half on delivery for fixed-scope work. Monthly in advance for retainers. Net 15. Contracting runs on a short master agreement plus a one-page scope, so legal is measured in days rather than weeks.
Do you work with early-stage teams?
Yes. At early stage it is usually a scope question rather than a fit question, and the $2,500 pilot exists exactly for that — a small, useful slice of work first, scaled up only when it earns it.
If the ranges work, the next step is fifteen minutes to set the scope.
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