Fixed Price, No Surprises
$12,000 flat. No hourly billing, no scope ambiguity. You know exactly what you're investing.
Transparent Pricing for AI That Works
Start with a $12,000 discovery sprint. Scale with accepted-delivery credits. Pay only for work you approve.
Start with a $12,000 Discovery Sprint
Every engagement begins here. Two weeks of structured discovery to map your AI opportunity and produce a delivery-ready backlog — before any larger commitment.
Two Weeks to Clarity
Architecture review, backlog decomposition, acceptance criteria, and a calibrated credit estimate for full delivery.
Walk Away or Scale Up
Use the discovery output internally or move into a credit bundle. No lock-in, no pressure.
How Credits Move Across Delivery Stages
Credits are not a generic time bucket. They are tied to stage-specific deliverables and acceptance gates.
Scope
15% Typical Allocation
Discovery, architecture decisions, and acceptance framing before sprint execution begins.
- Backlog decomposition and calibration
- Success metrics and constraints mapping
- Commercial scope lock before build
Build
55% Typical Allocation
Core engineering delivery with guardrails, observability, and production-grade behavior in every increment.
- Workflow and integration implementation
- Fallback paths and operational logging
- Accepted delivery demonstrations
Evaluate
20% Typical Allocation
Quality scoring and regression control so release decisions are driven by evidence, not intuition.
- Eval harness setup and maintenance
- Prompt/retrieval quality checks
- Failure mode analysis and fixes
Operate
10% Typical Allocation
Operational transfer with runbooks, monitoring ownership, and enablement for internal teams.
- Runbook and support boundaries
- Handoff sessions with stakeholders
- Stabilization window management
Story-Credit Estimator
Model scope, timeline, and budget before formal discovery using the same structure we use in delivery planning.
Credit Bundles
Start with an allocation that matches immediate objectives, then expand only as accepted delivery proves value.
Quick Win
40 Credits
$34K - $48K
Best for a single AI proof of concept or workflow validation.
- 1 focused sprint cycle
- Single-workflow delivery and demo
- Full acceptance gates included
Pilot
80 Credits
$68K - $96K
Best for first production workflow and one integration lane.
- Up to 2 sprint cycles
- Weekly demos and credit burn-up visibility
- Acceptance gates per committed story
Build
160 Credits
$136K - $192K
Best for multi-workflow delivery across one business unit.
- Up to 4 sprint cycles
- Shared engineering and QA lanes
- Architecture hardening and runbooks
Scale
320 Credits
$272K - $384K
Best for platform rollout, governance, and multi-agent systems.
- Up to 8 sprint cycles
- Parallel delivery tracks
- Operational enablement for internal teams
Bundle prices reflect credit delivery only. A $12,000 discovery sprint is added at engagement start. Cloud infrastructure is billed separately.
Commercial Guardrails
Rules that keep velocity and budget aligned throughout delivery.
Shared Estimation Ritual
Credit calibration happens in a joint session with your product owner, technical lead, and delivery manager.
Acceptance-Based Billing
Only accepted credits are invoiced. Defect rework tied to agreed acceptance criteria does not consume extra credits.
Scope Swap at Sprint Boundaries
Swap equal-credit stories between sprints as priorities change, without rewriting commercial terms.
Stabilization Window
Delivered stories include a 14-day stabilization period for production defects tied to accepted scope.
What You Own at Handoff
Ownership transfer is explicit and contractual. You leave with complete delivery artifacts, not dependency.
Production Codebase
Workflows, integrations, and deployment scripts committed to your repository and standards.
Prompt + Evaluation Assets
Prompt templates, eval datasets, scoring rules, and regression baselines for future releases.
Runbooks + Observability
Monitoring dashboards, alert policies, escalation flows, and operational runbook procedures.
Architecture Knowledge Transfer
Decision logs, system diagrams, and enablement sessions so your internal team can operate confidently.
Reference Calibration Table
The baseline used to keep estimates defensible, transparent, and commercially stable.
| Reference Story | Typical Scope | Credit Range |
|---|---|---|
| Prompt or UX refinement | Single behavior change with clear acceptance criteria | 1 - 3 |
| API integration workflow | One external system, retries, and auth handling | 3 - 5 |
| LLM flow with validation | Structured prompts, fallback paths, and output checks | 5 - 8 |
| RAG pipeline and eval harness | Ingestion, chunking, retrieval quality checks, and tracing | 8 - 13 |
| Multi-agent orchestration | Tooling, guardrails, observability, and governance | 13+ (split) |
Common Questions
Straight answers for teams buying AI delivery with operational accountability.
Why not bill directly on story points?
Story points are team-relative planning signals. Story credits are the client-facing commercial unit, so invoices stay stable even if delivery rituals evolve.
What happens if a story exceeds estimate?
If sizing was wrong, we absorb the overrun unless scope changed. Scope changes are re-estimated and approved before execution continues.
Can priorities change after kickoff?
Yes. You can reorder backlog and swap equal-credit stories between sprints. In-flight scope changes are queued for the next sprint.
Do credits expire?
Credits are valid for 12 months from purchase date. Unused credits can roll into the next quarter with active engagement.
What determines where I fall in the $850–$1,200 rate band?
Rate depends on story complexity and required expertise. Lean stories like prompt refinement trend toward $850. Complex stories requiring multi-agent orchestration or custom evaluation infrastructure trend toward $1,200. Your rate is confirmed during the discovery sprint before any delivery commitment.
Ready to Build Your Credit Plan?
Bring your current backlog and we will map it to a Reliability Loop delivery plan with sprint-by-sprint commercial visibility.