Two fixed-price engagements. No retainers.

One ranks your automation candidates. One builds the winner. There's no third thing, no discovery phase, and no open-ended retainer.

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Start here if you have four candidate problems and no ranking

AI Opportunity Audit

$950
8 business days from the intake call

You know something should change. You can't rank the candidates, and guessing wrong costs more than the audit does.

What you get

  • A 45-minute intake call
  • Review of up to three existing workflows, as you describe them
  • A ranked, costed shortlist of three automation candidates — each with roughly what it costs you in time today, roughly what it costs to build, and the reason it is or isn't first
  • A one-page build spec for the #1 candidate: the trigger, the steps, the tools, who owns it afterwards, and what "working" means in testable terms
  • A 60-minute walkthrough call to take you through it

What it is not

  • No access to your systems — this works from how you describe them
  • No build, no configuration, no vendor negotiation
  • No written strategy beyond the shortlist and the one-pager

The $950 is credited in full against a build if you start within 60 days. Proceed, and the diagnostic was free. Don't proceed, and you still keep a ranked shortlist you can hand to anyone — including your own team.

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Start here if you already know which workflow is broken

First Workflow Build

$4,500
5 weeks from the signed spec

One workflow, running in daily use, on the tools you already pay for. Not a prototype, not a demo — the thing your team uses on Monday.

What you get

  • One workflow built and running in daily use on your stack — your CRM, your email, automation on n8n or equivalent
  • All configuration done
  • A written runbook, including the failure modes and what to do about each one
  • A 45-minute handover session with the person who'll own it
  • Two weeks of hypercare — anything we built that breaks, we fix, free

What's not included

  • Tool licences and API usage — your own accounts, billed direct. We never resell or front tool costs
  • Custom software, model training or fine-tuning, data migration
  • Anything outside the spec you accepted. A change request becomes a new build, quoted separately

The scope bound: At most three systems touched, at most ten workflow steps, one trigger. That bound is the reason five weeks is a real number instead of an optimistic one.

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What's not included (so there are no surprises)

Most AI quotes leave out what the workflow costs to run after the consultant leaves. Here is everything that is not in our price, who pays for it, and when you find out.

Billed to you by the vendor

Tool subscriptions

Your CRM, email platform and automation tool stay in your own accounts. We build on tools you already pay for wherever we can, and we never resell or mark up tool costs.

Billed to you, by usage

AI usage

If the workflow calls an AI model, that usage is billed to your own account by the provider. The build spec names every paid service the workflow uses and how it bills, before you sign.

Usually none

Hosting

Most workflows run inside tools you already have. If one needs its own server, the spec says so up front, along with who pays for it.

Quoted separately

Changes after handover

Anything we built that breaks in the two weeks after handover, we fix free. After that there is no retainer: changes or new features are quoted as a new build, and you decide.

A separate build

A second workflow

Each build is one workflow. We start the next one only once the first is running in daily use.

Not offered

Regulated data and custom AI

We don't take on regulated-data workloads (patient records, cardholder data, privileged discovery), compliance certification, custom model training or data migration.

The price on this page is the whole price for our work. No setup fees, no hourly overruns.

Founding Build — $2,950 for the first three

The first three builds go out at $2,950 instead of $4,500 — a real $1,550 off, not a struck-through anchor. In exchange we ask for written permission to publish the workflow we built (named or anonymised, your call), a short quote, and a 30-minute conversation after handover.

We're straightforward about why this exists: we're buying proof, not volume. We have no published work, and the only honest way to get it is to build something real for someone who'll let us show it. You get $1,550 off and direct access to whoever is building it.

Closes at three builds sold, or 31 March 2027, whichever comes first. Never extended and never renewed — if we can't sell three by then, the problem isn't the price and another discount isn't the answer.

Founding rate — the first three builds

How an engagement runs

1
Assessment
3 min
2
Intake call
45 min
3
Audit
8 days
4
Signed spec
✓
5
Build
5 weeks
6
Handover + support
2 weeks

Scope bound — why it matters

The scope bound is written into every build spec you accept before we start any work. It's the reason five weeks is a real number instead of an optimistic one.

3 Max systems touched
10 Max workflow steps
1 Single trigger

What this means

  • A second workflow — that's a second build, and we won't start it until the first is running
  • Custom software, model training or fine-tuning, data migration are outside scope
  • Tool licences and API usage are your own accounts, billed direct — we never resell or front tool costs
  • Anything outside the spec you accepted becomes a new build, quoted separately

Frequently asked questions

If you have candidate problems but can't rank them, start with the audit. If you already know which workflow is broken and just need it built, go straight to the build. The free assessment will also tell you which path makes sense for your situation.
We'll tell you honestly in the audit. If the right solution exceeds three systems, ten steps, or one trigger, we'll say so and explain why it needs a different approach. The audit is still credited against a build if you proceed within 60 days, even if that build is scoped differently.
No. The $950 audit credit applies only to a build engagement started within 60 days. It doesn't transfer to other services, doesn't roll over beyond 60 days, and doesn't convert to cash or store credit. If you don't proceed with a build, you still keep the ranked shortlist and build spec from the audit.
We'll say so on the call instead of taking the engagement. If you already have a written spec and a deadline next month, an automation freelancer or a Make/Zapier partner will do it cheaper and sooner, and we'll tell you so. We're worth paying when the hard part is deciding what to build, not building it.
No. We don't take workloads whose core is protected health information, cardholder data, or privileged discovery. We can't offer the security posture or the audit trail those deserve, and pretending otherwise would be the fastest way to end this practice. If that's your core workload, you need a firm with a compliance function — we're not it.
We work on the tools you already pay for — Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, HubSpot, QuickBooks, Slack, and automation platforms like n8n, Zapier, or Make. We don't resell tool licences, and we don't front API costs. If your stack isn't listed, tell us on the intake call and we'll say whether we can support it.

Not sure which one you need?

That's what the assessment is for. It scores which of the two is right — or tells you that neither is, yet.

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