One ladder.
You own every rung.
You come in through the free 2-minute diagnostic or a consultation, then the first paid step is a Deep-Dive Audit. It verifies where your business leaks money and hours, hands you a roadmap you own, and gates a limited build calendar. From there we build the system, fixed fee, and you keep the asset. No SaaS rent. No lock-in. No kill switch we hold over you.
Audit, roadmap, build, run.
Every client moves through the same four rungs, in the same order. The Deep-Dive Audit qualifies the fit and produces the plan. The build ships the owned system. The run retainer is optional, because the asset is already yours.
Deep-Dive Audit
The first paid step, and the qualifier
After a free diagnostic or a consultation, this is where the real work starts. We go into your operation the way we went into the five builds behind this page: verify the leak against your real numbers, score what AI can actually move, and rank it by payback. This is paid work, it is fixed-fee, and it gates the build calendar. If we are not a fit, you walk away with the roadmap and owe us nothing else.
- A working session plus a full read of your stack, workflows, and numbers
- Every opportunity scored on dollar impact, effort, and payback window
- A go or no-go call, in plain language, with the reasoning shown
Roadmap
Delivered by the audit
The Deep-Dive Audit ends with a sequenced plan: what to build first, what it costs, what it returns, and in what order. You own this document outright. Take it to your team, take it to another shop, or hand it back to us to build. There is no lock-in at this rung, and that is the point.
- A prioritized build sequence tied to a fixed-fee estimate per phase
- Projected payback on each system, drawn from your real figures
- Yours to keep whether or not we go further together
Build
The owned system, fixed fee
We build the system the roadmap points to. A small, elite team with a fleet of AI agents doing the heavy lifting, the same way we shipped a signed Windows installer for a Texas process-serving firm and a 434/434-test lead engine for a Vancouver landscaping company. The price is fixed before a line of code is written. When it ships, the code, the credentials, and the infrastructure are yours.
- Fixed-fee scope locked before the work starts, no hourly drift
- Bespoke software, automations, and the playbooks that run them
- Full handover: source, accounts, and documentation transfer to you
Run
Monthly retainer, optional
Some clients want the system handed off clean and run it themselves. Some want us operating and tightening it every month. Run is the retainer for the second group: monitoring, iteration, and new automations layered on as the business changes. It is month to month. You can end it whenever the asset stands on its own, because you own the asset.
- Ongoing operation, monitoring, and optimization of what we built
- New automations and playbooks added as priorities shift
- Month to month, cancel anytime, no claw-back on the asset
You buy a system. You do not rent ours.
Most firms sell you a seat on a platform they control. When you stop paying, the work stops with it. We build the opposite.
The code is yours
Source, repository, and documentation transfer to you at handover. For one client we built an open-source replacement for two paid tools, so they would never pay rent on them again.
The accounts are yours
Cloud projects, credentials, and infrastructure sit in your accounts, not ours. The signed installer we shipped one client runs on their machines, writing back into their own database.
The leverage is yours
An asset you own compounds. A subscription you rent is a recurring cost with a switch someone else controls. The wedge is ownership, end of story.
One price architecture, start to finish.
No moving target. The Deep-Dive Audit is a fixed entry fee. The build is fixed-fee and scoped from your roadmap. The retainer is a monthly range you can leave at any time. Here is the whole ladder, priced.
Two to three weeks. Paid in full up front.
Credited toward the build if you move forward inside 60 days.
Delivered as the audit deliverable.
Yours to keep, build with us or build without us.
Scoped from the roadmap, locked before work starts.
You own the code, the accounts, and the infrastructure.
Month to month. Cancel anytime.
Optional. The asset stays yours whether you keep it or not.
Build ranges reflect scope, not surprise. The exact figure is locked in writing before any work begins, drawn line by line from the roadmap your Deep-Dive Audit produces. If a build comes in smaller, you pay the smaller number.
The Deep-Dive Audit gates a small calendar.
We are a small, elite team and a fleet of AI agents, on purpose. The fleet is the force multiplier that lets a boutique agency ship at a scale its size should not allow, and our capacity is still the constraint by design. Scarcity is the point.
So we take a small number of builds at a time. The Deep-Dive Audit is the gate: it qualifies the fit, sets the queue position, and protects the attention that produced the numbers on the work page. When the calendar is full, it is full, and the next audit books the next open slot.
If you are weighing it, book a consultation now. The roadmap is yours regardless, and the build slot goes to whoever is ready first.
The questions people ask first.
Why pay for a Deep-Dive Audit instead of a free sales call?
Because the Deep-Dive Audit is the work, not a pitch. Free sales calls exist to sell you something. This one exists to verify the leak against your real numbers and hand you a roadmap you own, even if we never work together again. Charging for it keeps us honest and keeps the calendar full of companies that are serious. The free 2-minute diagnostic and a consultation are the way in, and the audit is the first paid step.
What does it actually mean that I own the asset?
When the build ships, the source code, the cloud accounts, the credentials, and the documentation transfer to you. No per-seat license, no platform you rent, no kill switch we hold over you. For one client we built an open-source replacement for two SaaS tools, specifically so they would never pay rent on it again. That is the wedge: you buy a system, you do not lease access to ours.
Can I skip the Deep-Dive Audit and go straight to a build?
No. Every build runs off the roadmap, and the roadmap comes out of the Deep-Dive Audit. Skipping it is how projects end up scoped wrong, priced wrong, and abandoned. The audit is short, it is fixed-fee, and it is credited toward the build if you move forward, so the cost of doing it right is close to zero.
Why is the calendar limited?
Because we are a boutique agency, by design. A small, elite team and a fleet of AI agents lets us ship at a scale our size should not allow, but our capacity is still the constraint, and that is the point. We take a small number of builds at a time so each one gets the attention that produced the numbers on the work page. The Deep-Dive Audit gates the queue. When the calendar is full, it is full.
What happens after the build is delivered?
You have two paths. Take the system in-house and run it yourself, with full handover and documentation, or keep us on a month-to-month Run retainer to operate and improve it. Most clients start on Run while their team gets comfortable, then taper off. Either way the asset is already yours.
What size company is this for?
Roughly two million to fifty million in revenue, traditional or growth-stage, with enough operational complexity that the leaks are real money. If you are below that, the math on a custom build usually does not work yet, and we will tell you so in the Deep-Dive Audit rather than sell you something you do not need.
Start with a consultation.
One paid Deep-Dive Audit, one roadmap you own, one fixed-fee build, and a retainer you can leave whenever the asset stands on its own. That is the whole offer. The front door is the free diagnostic or a consultation.