Pricing

Clear Scope. Clear Price.

Pricing is scoped, not fixed off a menu. The ranges below move with data volume and sensitivity, integration count and compliance load, which is why an audited healthcare build and an internal knowledge assistant do not cost the same. Final pricing is confirmed in writing after a free scoping call, and that number is the number you pay. USD listed; EUR, GBP and AUD on request.

Scoping Call

30 minutes to find out whether there is a problem here worth solving, before anyone talks budget.

Free30 minutes

no obligation

The highest-value workflow to tackle first
A check on whether your data can support it
Rough cost, timeline and the risks I can see
A written summary after the call
An honest no if AI is the wrong tool

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Free, no obligation

RAG or Automation Build

A focused system that solves 1 clear problem and ships fast.

from $3,500scoped per build

2 to 4 weeks

RAG chatbot or n8n workflow on your data
Hybrid retrieval, reranking and citations
Cloud deployment on AWS, Azure or GCP
Evaluation against ground-truth benchmarks
Handover docs and 30 days post-launch support

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Fixed scope, confirmed in writing

Most requested

Enterprise AI Platform

A full product with agents, APIs, dashboards and governance.

$15K to $60K+milestone billed

8 to 16 weeks

Multi-agent systems and LLM SaaS
Backend, auth, multi-tenancy and analytics
Full MLOps and LLMOps pipeline
HIPAA, GDPR or SOC 2 architecture
Monitoring, SLAs and quarterly reviews

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Milestone billing you sign off

Retainer and Team Augmentation

Ongoing engineering capacity inside your team, billed monthly.

$4.8K to $6Kper month

rolling, 6 months or longer

Dedicated AI engineering hours each month
Model tuning and retrieval improvements
Incident response and managed monitoring
Architecture reviews and roadmap input
Priority access to the engineer directly

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Rolling monthly, 30 days notice

Prefer to start hourly, or on a blended model? Some clients trial a few days of work before committing to a scoped engagement. The rate is set per engagement against scope, data sensitivity and timeline, agreed in writing before anything starts, and can run through Upwork escrow. Existing contracts are honoured at their agreed rate.

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Third-party costs (model API usage, cloud hosting, vector database plans, licensed data) are billed at cost and estimated during discovery.

Included in every engagement

ROI defined first

KPIs and the expected return are agreed in discovery, before any code.

Your data stays yours

NDAs standard. Self-hosted deployment available for full data sovereignty.

Weekly demos

Working software every week. You always know exactly where the build is.

No surprise invoices

Scope and price agreed in writing up front. Anything outside it is re-quoted before work starts.

Pricing questions

Before you ask

We re-quote the delta in writing before any extra work starts. The original fixed price holds for the original scope, so a change never turns into an open-ended bill.

No. Focused builds split across start and delivery. Platform work is billed against milestones you sign off, so payment tracks delivered scope. Retainers are billed monthly in advance.

Firm once scope is agreed. The range exists because 2 projects that sound identical rarely are: data volume, integration count, compliance load and whether an audit trail is required all move the number. The scoping call closes that gap, then the quote is fixed in writing and holds for the agreed scope.

Third-party costs are yours and billed at cost: model API usage, cloud hosting, vector database plans and any licensed data. I will estimate these during discovery so there are no surprises.

Yes. Most engagements start with 1 narrow workflow rather than a platform, which keeps the first invoice small and gives both sides real evidence before scaling. Short hourly trials through Upwork escrow are also fine.

Not sure which fits?

Book a free 30-minute call. We will size the problem together and I will tell you plainly which engagement makes sense, including if the answer is none of them yet.

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