We do not publish prices, because a number without your task attached to it is marketing. What we can tell you is exactly what drives it, and what we will never charge for.
What we never charge for
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No day rates
You are buying a working system, not our diary. A day rate rewards the slowest possible delivery.
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No open-ended discovery
Scoping is two sessions inside the fixed-fee pilot. It is never billed as a separate, open-ended phase.
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No charge for a proposal
If we quote you, the quote is free. If we decide it is not worth automating, that answer is free too.
What actually drives the number
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How many systems it touches
Two systems with clean APIs is a different job from five, one of which is a 2009 database with no API.
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How many decisions a human makes
Every judgement call in the process is a rule we have to capture, test and handle when it is ambiguous.
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Volume and failure cost
A task run four hundred times a month justifies more engineering than one run twice.
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How messy the inputs are
Clean structured data is quick. Scanned PDFs from forty different suppliers is the actual work.
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What happens when it breaks
A queue for a human is cheap. A system that must never stop costs more, and we will say so.
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Whether it pays back
If the payback is past a year we say so and suggest a better first task instead.
The quote does not drift
The pilot fee is fixed and agreed in writing before it starts, and it covers the scope and the build of your first automation. Anything we build after that is quoted at a fixed price before it starts. If we got the estimate wrong, that is our problem, not a change request. The only thing that changes the number is you asking for something that was not in the scope document.