Pricing

You're buying outcomes, not hours.

Every tier includes the full delivery system — governed agents, the evidence pipeline, security discipline — plus executive-level product leadership. Engagements start with a single fixed-scope milestone — typically four figures — and expand only as results are proven. Every one of our 12 delivered milestones priced at or under $8,375; every client entered four-figure. The bigger tiers below are expansion stages the evidence unlocks, never the cold ask.

Prove

Prove it's worth building

$5,000–$8,000
one fixed-scope milestone · typically 4–8 weeks · no retainer to enter
  • Problem framing and a delivery plan sized to your actual budget
  • Buyer validation — will anyone pay? — before you build big
  • Working proof of concept in production-grade tooling
  • A clear go / no-go decision, with the evidence to back it
  • An honest "don't build this" if that's the truth
  • The standing rule behind this tier: when we doubt your idea, we say the doubt — then price the test. This is that price.
  • You own the repo from day one. Thirty-day bug window on delivered milestones, regardless of tier.
Start with Prove
Most clients Build

Ship the product your customers can trust

$12,500
per month · or fixed-scope projects from $15K
  • Full product delivery — spec to production
  • Governed AI agents building in parallel, evidence at every gate
  • Testing, security, and dependency discipline built in, not bolted on
  • Staged, reversible production deployments
  • Fractional CPTO leadership throughout
  • Working software demonstrated weekly
Start with Build
Operate

Run an AI product that survives success

$25,000
per month
  • Everything in Build, across multiple products or workstreams
  • Trained operators embedded in your business day-to-day
  • Uptime and error monitors that page a named human — third-party tokens refreshed before they lapse, not after you notice
  • Billing automation watched fail-closed: a run that would charge wrongly halts
  • Compliance calendar — SOC 2 / HIPAA re-certifications started ahead of their lead time
  • Quarterly earning-its-keep reviews, with evidence
Talk about Operate

What you own: the delivered code and deployed system are yours on payment — the standing posture across every real SOW on our books. For clients whose edge is the logic, ownership extends to the prompts and domain taxonomy, with contractual vertical exclusivity. The retainer is opt-in after the fixed build — never lock-in.

Larger organization, multiple teams, or something that doesn't fit a tier? Talk to us about an enterprise engagement.

For delivery professionals

The Operator Program is paused while the Founding Five seats are open.

Straight answers

What people ask before they buy.

Why is this cheaper than hiring engineers?

Because most of what an engineering team costs isn't engineering — it's coordination: meetings, ceremonies, handoffs, management layers. Governed AI agents do the building; one senior executive does the judgment. You pay for the judgment and the outcome, and the coordination tax disappears.

How do I know the work is actually done?

Because "done" is a provable fact in our system, not a status update. Every acceptance criterion is tied to a linked commit, deploy, and test result in a nine-stage evidence chain. You — or your technical advisor — can audit it any time.

What if my idea turns out to be a bad one?

Then the Prove tier did its job. We validate that someone will pay before you spend Build money. An honest "don't build this" for a single four-figure milestone is the cheapest thing we sell and possibly the most valuable.

Do I need to be technical?

No. Most of our clients aren't. You need to know your customer and your domain; we handle everything from architecture to deployment, and we explain what we're doing in plain language at every gate.

Who owns the code?

You do, per the engagement terms — including everything the agents produce. Your product, your repository, your IP.

What happens after launch?

Your choice: we hand off cleanly with documentation and a trained path forward, or the Operate tier keeps the product running, monitored, and improving with operators embedded in your business.

Gate 0 · The first conversation

Start with the truth, not the invoice.

A 30-minute call. You describe the outcome. We tell you what it takes, what it costs, and whether anyone will pay for it.

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