Every job is quoted on its own, and the price is fixed before anything is built.
There is no price list here, because the jobs are not alike. Removing a half-hour of retyping and building a forecasting model are different undertakings, and a published number would be wrong for one of them. What does not change is how the number is arrived at, and when you get to see it.
You see the number before any work starts, and it does not move.
Fixed, never hourly
One price for the whole job, written down. An overrun is our problem, not an extra invoice.
Priced against the job
What the work costs you now — hours, errors, delays — sets what it is worth removing. Not what it costs us to build.
Two parts
A one-off cost to design, build and hand over. Then a monthly fee for support and changes, which you can stop.
Nothing before you agree
The visit, the plan and the written quote are free. You pay half on commission and half on delivery.
If the job is better solved by software that already exists, or is too large to be one tool, we say so in the quote and tell you what we would do instead.
Four things account for most of the difference between one quote and another.
Worth knowing before the visit, because you can usually tell which of these apply to you.
The state of the data
If the history is already in one system and broadly trusted, the work is short. If it sits across three systems that disagree, straightening it out is most of the job.
How many people touch it
A tool one person uses is far simpler than one where three roles hand work between them and each needs a different view and different permissions.
Whether it has to talk to anything
A tool that stands alone is quicker than one that has to read from or write to software you already run, especially if that software was not built to be connected to.
Prediction or process
Automating a defined process is bounded work. Building a model that forecasts or scores something takes longer, because it has to be tested against what actually happened before anyone should trust it.
We would rather tell you not to buy.
Half of these enquiries are better answered by software that already exists. We will say which, at no cost.
- Five to a hundred staff, and nobody whose job is IT.
- One task takes hours every week and lives in a spreadsheet, a paper form or one person's head.
- Standard software has been tried and does not match how the work is really done.
- The person who would use the tool every day can be named.
- Accounts, payroll, CRM or stock control — good products exist and we will point to them.
- An app for the public rather than a tool for your own team.
- Anything needing round-the-clock support or handling card payments.
- A chatbot for its own sake.