What you are actually paying for
Three things: finding the workflow worth automating, building the agent, and integrating it into the tools you already run — email, CRM, spreadsheets, your website — with a person approving what it does. Strategy without a build is a report. A build without integration is a demo. You want the third thing.
The two ways we price it
- A fixed-price pilot. One workflow, one price, built on your real data. You see it working before committing to more. This is where we suggest most businesses start.
- A retainer. A block of hours each month for building the next workflow, maintaining the last one and training your team. Ours start at 10 hours a month, with no annual contract, and the hours can move between AI and social work as the month demands.
What makes it cost more, or less
- Integration depth. Drafting replies in an inbox is simple. Writing orders into an accounting system with approvals is more work.
- How many systems. Each tool the agent touches adds testing.
- Data readiness. Clean, consistent records mean faster builds. Messy ones mean a clean-up step first.
- Running costs. The AI usage itself is billed by the model provider, on top of our fee. It depends on how much the agent does, and we estimate it for your workflow before you commit.
Questions to ask any AI consultant
- Will a person approve what the agent does, and how?
- What happens to my data, and which providers see it?
- Who owns the build when we stop working together?
- What does it cost to run each month, separate from your fee?
- Can you show me something you have shipped, not a slide about it?
If the answers are vague, the price is not the problem.