Pricing

Fixed fees, agreed before anything starts.

Four consulting services, in the order most clients move through them. The audit comes first; we don’t quote cleanup, build, or ongoing support until we understand the business. Every price is confirmed before kickoff — no hourly billing, and no number on this page that a proposal will quietly exceed.

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Business Automation Audit

$500–$1,000

1–2 weeksDue in full on delivery, or 50% at kickoff / 50% on delivery.

We review how the business actually runs, find what's worth automating, and hand you a ranked plan.

Written report documenting your current workflows
Prioritised automation opportunities, each with estimated time saved
A sequenced roadmap — what to tackle first, and why
A shortlist of quick wins
A review call to walk the findings and agree next steps

Diagnosis only — no build work. The report is yours whether you implement it with us or on your own.

Audit + One Workflow Cleanup

$1,500–$3,000

2–3 weeks50% deposit at kickoff, 50% on delivery.

After the audit, we take one workflow that keeps breaking and rebuild it as a documented process your team actually follows.

Everything in the audit
A written SOP for one workflow you choose
Hands-on help putting the new process into practice
Training for the people who actually run it

Process design, not software. Building automation for the workflow is quoted separately.

Automation Starter Build

$2,500–$4,500

3–5 weeks50% deposit at kickoff, 50% on delivery. Larger builds may be phased into milestone payments.

We design and build one or two automations against criteria you agree up front, then hand them over documented.

One or two working automations, integrated with the tools you already use
Test results against acceptance criteria agreed up front
Written documentation for each automation
A handoff walkthrough with your team

You own the documentation and the accounts — nothing depends on us to keep running.

Fractional Automation / AI Ops Support

$1,000–$3,000 / month

Month-to-monthBilled monthly in advance. 30 days' notice to cancel.

Ongoing help after a completed project, keeping what we built running and improving it as the business changes.

Ongoing maintenance and monitoring of the systems we support
A monthly block of improvement and troubleshooting work
Committed response times
A monthly summary of what was done and what's queued

An upgrade after other project work is complete — not a first engagement and not eligible for audit-credit offsets.

Start with the audit

Every path begins in the same place.

We don’t quote a build before we understand the business, so the first engagement is almost always the audit. It tells you which fix is worth doing first — and sometimes it tells you to leave things alone, which is a legitimate answer.

See the nine steps every engagement runs through →

Audit credit

Start an eligible fixed-fee engagement within 30 days and the audit fee comes off it dollar for dollar.

The audit is $500–$1,000. The cards above show full package prices before any audit credit. If the audit leads to a cleanup, Starter Build, or custom scoped project signed within 30 days of delivery, the audit fee is credited on the proposal or invoice so you haven't paid twice for the thinking. Fractional support is excluded because it starts after earlier project work is complete.

How we scope

What the price protects you from.

Most of what goes wrong in a consulting engagement is commercial, not technical. These are the terms that stop it.

The fee is agreed before work starts

You approve a written proposal with a fixed scope and a fixed price. We don't begin until you've signed it, and the number doesn't move afterwards.

No hourly billing

You're buying an outcome, not our time. A slow week is our problem, not a bigger invoice for you.

Change orders are quoted separately

If something surfaces mid-project that changes the shape of the work, we stop and agree the adjustment with you. Scope never expands quietly.

You own what we build

Documentation, SOPs, and the accounts the automations run on are yours. Nothing is held hostage if you stop working with us.

The other side of the ledger

What it costs to leave it alone.

A price only means something next to what the problem is already costing. Most owners have never put a number on the hours going into chasing paperwork, re-keying the same data, and fixing it at month-end.

Estimate what the manual work is costing you →

Questions

The things people actually ask.

Why isn't the audit free?

Because a free diagnosis is a sales call wearing a lab coat — it will always conclude that you should buy the thing we sell. Charging for it means we can tell you the honest answer, including “leave this alone.” The report is a deliverable you own, not a pitch.

What if I only want the report?

That's a completely normal outcome, and the Business Automation Audit is priced as a standalone engagement for exactly that reason. You get the findings and the roadmap, and you're free to implement them yourself or hand them to someone else.

Can you build us a custom CRM or ERP?

Yes, but never as a first engagement — that one is a hard rule, not a negotiating position. Software that runs the whole company is a long, expensive project, and building one for a business we don't yet understand is how those end up abandoned. Custom platform work only follows a completed engagement together: an audit, a cleanup, or a build first, so we've seen how the company actually operates before anyone commits to something that size. It's scoped and priced per project, never off this page.

Do you resell software?

No. We are a consulting practice, not a software reseller. We take no commission, kickback, or referral fee from any tool we recommend. If a paid tool is genuinely the right answer, you buy it directly and own the account.

Who owns the automations you build?

You do. They run on your accounts, and you get written documentation covering how each one is triggered, what it does, and how to change it. The point is that your team can maintain it without us.

What if I'm not a QuickBooks shop?

QuickBooks Online is our main early niche because it is where a lot of small and medium-sized businesses keep the books. It is not the only tool we understand. The work is still about how information moves through quoting, scheduling, invoicing, paperwork, handoffs, and the rest of the stack.

Do you work with heavily regulated industries?

Not right now. We are avoiding financial services, government, medical, legal, and similar regulated environments because those projects need deeper compliance infrastructure than we want to promise casually.

How do I know which package I need?

You don't have to. That's what the discovery call and the audit are for — we recommend one, with reasons. Nobody is asked to pick a package off this page.

No package to pick

Tell us where the work gets stuck.

We’ll recommend whether an audit is worth doing, with reasons — or tell you that it isn’t worth it right now. The call is free either way.

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