Automation Fit Call
Free20 minutes
A short, direct conversation about your process and whether automation is worth pursuing.
- A quick read on your highest-friction process
- An honest answer on whether we're a fit
- No deck, no pressure
Pricing
Start small, see it work, then scale it
Fixed prices for the first steps, honest ranges for real builds, and scoped quotes for anything genuinely complex. No retainer is required to get value from the first engagement.
Automation Audit
Start hereFounding-client audit
$395
Standard audit: $495
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The service and scope are the same at either price. The $395 introductory price is for the first five founding engagements, with agreed participation in an anonymised results write-up.
A structured look at how work flows today, and what is worth changing first.
- Workflow session with the people doing the work
- Current-state map of the process
- Ranked opportunities
- Expected impact and time estimates (estimates, not guarantees)
- Complexity and security considerations
- Estimated implementation cost
- 90-day roadmap
The full paid audit fee is credited toward a build over $2,500 started within 30 days.
Quick Win
from $1,250fixed scope
from $995 founding
One tightly scoped process or connection, built, tested and documented.
- A single process or integration
- Tested against real cases
- Handover documentation
- Post-launch support window
Business Automation System
$2,500–$7,500+scoped after the audit
20% off for founding clients
A connected set of processes across several systems, with approvals and exception handling.
- Multiple systems and information sources
- Approval steps and exception handling
- Monitoring, alerting and documentation
- Training and handover for your team
AI & Agent System
from $3,500scoped after the audit
20% off for founding clients
Assistants and agent setups applied where reading, writing or judgment is the bottleneck.
- Assistants grounded in your approved documents
- Drafting, summarising and sorting with review points
- Agent installation for frameworks like OpenClaw and Hermes
- Deliberate limits on what information is sent where
- Human sign-off on consequential actions
Turnkey Agent Appliance
$5,500–$8,500+hardware included, scoped per build
20% off for founding clients
A dedicated, preconfigured agent system we build and bench-test in-house, then deliver ready to run — including the hardware it lives on.
- Dedicated hardware, configured and hardened before delivery
- OpenClaw, Hermes and supporting tools installed and tested
- Runs on your premises — your data stays in the building
- Documented handover, training and a support window
Consulting & advisory
$150 / hour
$120 / hour founding
For troubleshooting, advisory conversations and scope changes outside a fixed engagement. We deliberately don't sell hourly work as the main model.
Ongoing care
Automations live inside changing tools and growing volume. These plans keep them healthy and improving. Maintenance plans are not discounted under the founding program.
System Care
$295/ month
Keep what's running, running.
- Monitoring of live automations
- Fixes when something breaks
- Monthly health check
- Defined support window
Optimize
Start here$695/ month
Care, plus steady improvement.
- Everything in System Care
- Ongoing small improvements each month
- Quarterly review of what to change next
- Priority on change requests
Automation Partner
$1,500+/ month
An ongoing automation function for your business.
- Priority support and monitoring
- Ongoing improvements and new process capacity
- Roadmap planning with your team
- Custom scoped to volume and complexity
Founding program
Founding pricing is planned for our first five engagements in exchange for agreed participation in an anonymised write-up of the results. Maintenance plans are not discounted.
Third-party costs
Third-party software, hosting and AI model usage are separate and billed to you directly wherever practical, so you keep ownership of the accounts and visibility of the spend.
Founding client program
Our first five engagements set the standard.
Founding pricing is planned for our first five engagements in exchange for agreed participation in an anonymised write-up of the results.
Maintenance plans are not discounted.
See founding pricingTime & cost estimate
Weigh the price against the hours
Use your own numbers. This shows the labour value currently tied up in a single manual process.
Inputs
What is this process costing today?
8 hrs
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$45/hr
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Loaded cost includes wages plus taxes, benefits and overhead.
Weekly hours × hourly cost × 4.33 weeks = monthly labour value tied up in this process.
Estimated labour value tied up
$1,559
per month
$18,706
per year
If you reclaimed part of it
25%2.0 hrs/week back
$390/mo
$4,676/yr
50%4.0 hrs/week back
$779/mo
$9,353/yr
75%6.0 hrs/week back
$1,169/mo
$14,029/yr
Illustrative estimate based on the figures you entered, and not a guarantee of savings. Actual results depend on process complexity, data quality and adoption. Nothing you enter here is sent or saved.
How we operate
Systems you can understand, pause and own.
You own what we build
Deliverables, accounts and keys sit in your name wherever practical. Nothing important depends on us staying involved.
Documentation included
Every build ships with a plain-English description of what runs, what it touches and how to pause it.
People stay in control
Consequential actions keep an approval step. Automation handles the routine; your team keeps the decisions.
Outcomes over tools
We measure the work by hours returned and mistakes avoided, not by how much technology got installed.
We'll tell you when not to automate
If a process should be simplified, renegotiated or left alone, that's the recommendation you'll get.
FAQ
Questions we're asked most
Usually not. Most projects start by connecting what you already pay for. We only suggest something new when your current setup genuinely can't do the job.
Next step
Find out what your business can stop doing by hand.
Start with a free 20-minute fit call, or go straight to the audit for a ranked plan and a 90-day roadmap.