We price on what a system earns, not on hours. Below are the three engagement shapes, the ranges we actually quote, and what moves a quote inside its range. The teardown that tells you which one you need is free.
Pre-built systems configured to your business and live in weeks: voice and intake, the hiring funnel, meeting intelligence, search visibility, the two-week vertical install.
Typical payback Two to five months against the admin hours or missed leads it replaces.
Quote an install →The flagship: intake, quoting, scheduling, follow-up, hiring and dashboards as one system, then we operate it with you. Errors reach us first. Monthly numbers, next build priced before it is built.
Typical payback Nine months at 15 admin hours a week and 8 missed after-hours leads a month. Run your own numbers on the calculator.
Quote the operating layer →Regulated commerce with high-risk payment rails, multi-tenant platforms with real tenant isolation, revenue engines. Product-studio work with a fixed scope and a named owner.
Typical payback Revenue that could not be taken at all: a store three processors declined, a product other companies pay to use.
Scope a build →The systems above are fixed-price. The consulting and management work around them is priced the way that category prices: by the day, by the month, by the seat, or by the block of hours. Open any one for what is included, what is not, and when it fits. Retainers bill in advance and cancel with thirty days notice.
Advisory. Vendor selection, a second opinion on a proposal, a board or leadership session, an architecture call before you commit.
Fits when You need a decision, not a project.
Ongoing technical and operational leadership for a company that is not ready to hire one. Named founder, not a bench.
Fits when You have a business worth leading and nobody senior in the seat.
We run the stack you already have: accounts and identity, backups, security posture, software licences, vendor renewals, and a monthly review with a founder.
Fits when You have ten to sixty people and nobody owns the technology.
Pre-paid time for fixes, changes and small builds, drawn down as used. No scoping call for small things.
Fits when You have a list of small things and want them handled without a proposal each time.
Your team taught the system they will use, and the AI tools around it, by the people who built it.
Fits when The system is in and people are still doing it the old way.
Your technology and AI use measured against the standard on our own security and AI-use pages, with the questionnaire answers a buyer’s IT team will ask for.
Fits when A client or insurer is asking questions you cannot yet answer.
We hold the licences, renewals and vendor relationships so nothing auto-renews unread and nothing is paid for twice.
Fits when Your software bill grew and nobody can say what is on it.
Instructional designers and trainers for the software you run. Curriculum built from your system and your processes, interactive eLearning with completions tracked, tip sheets and guides for the moments people get stuck, live sessions recorded, and an LMS if you need one.
Fits when The software is in and people are still doing it the old way, or the next hire has nothing to learn from.
Care plans for installed systems are separate and start at $750 a month: Watch $750 (monitoring, backups, a monthly report), Care $1,500 (plus changes, eight hours), Run $3,000 (plus twenty hours and a quarterly review). The 90-Day AI Scale Map is the paid assessment; the teardown is the free one.
| What | Market range we see in 2026 | Ours | Why the difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Automation build for a service business | $35k to $70k, then hourly | $25k to $45k, then a flat monthly | Seventy percent is already built and running in our own companies. |
| Marketing retainer with search, paid and email | $4k to $12k a month plus ad spend | $3k to $8k a month | One team, one dashboard, no agency-of-record markup on your ads. |
| Website plus content engine | $25k to $80k | $20k to $50k | Video from our own pipeline at near-zero marginal cost. |
| Voice and intake agent | $5k to $15k setup, $1k to $4k a month | $7.5k setup, $1.5k to $3k a month | Same corridor. We compete on the booking rate, not the setup fee. |
| Strategic plan with real numbers | $10k to $40k for a consulting deck | $7.5k to $18k, credited if you install within 45 days | We plan what we will also build, so the plan has to be right. |
Market ranges are 2026 estimates from published agency rate surveys, fractional-leadership retainer bands, search and AI-search retainer benchmarks, video retainer benchmarks, and custom-software cost guides. Estimates, marked as such, reviewed each quarter against what we actually quoted. Where a row is beside our own price, that is deliberate: we compete on the result, not the setup fee.
How many tools we keep and connect versus replace. Keeping a working scheduler is cheaper than replacing it.
Clean data migrates in days. Spreadsheets and three CRMs take longer, and we say so in the blueprint.
How much the system may do alone versus hold for a human. More approval points, more configuration, safer launch.
Regulated categories add gates, consent records and audit trails. That work is priced, never improvised.
The price we quote after the teardown is the price. Scope changes are written down and priced before work starts, or they do not happen.
Every install has a written spec: the numbers it is meant to move and how each is counted. At the ninety-day review we measure. Short of spec, we fix it at our cost for up to sixty more days. If it still cannot be met, you choose: we keep working at no charge, or you take a credit up to the install fee.
Custom work is assigned to you on final payment. Our pre-built platform stays licensed to you for as long as you run it, care plan or not. Data leaves in open formats. Cancel with thirty days notice and everything keeps running.
Thirty days notice. Your data leaves with you in open formats, every configuration is documented, and the software stays licensed for as long as the agreement says. Nobody is trapped.
The system is built around approval points. Quotes, hires, and anything that touches money are drafted for a human unless you decide otherwise, and every decision is logged so we can see what happened and fix the rule.
Hire them too. The operating layer does the 2am work, the fifty daily follow-ups, and the scoring nobody wants to do, so your one person runs the business instead of the inbox. Compared, with the arithmetic, on the comparison page.
Usually yes. The teardown sorts your stack into keep, connect, replace. We only replace what leaks money or holds your data hostage.
Counted inside our own companies, dated, with the method and the ones that did not move: the return page.
We fix it at our cost for up to sixty days past the review. If the written spec still cannot be met, you choose between more work at no charge and a credit up to the install fee. Read the guarantee.
Yes: the voice and intake agent at $7.5k, or the two-week vertical install at $12k to $20k for cleaning and home services. Both grow into the full operating layer without rework.