Approach & pricing
How we work, and what it costs.
Most agencies hide their prices until the third meeting. We would rather you knew the shape of the deal before the first one. Four engagement models, each with a clear scope and a clear number.
Engagement models
Pick the shape that fits.
For proving an idea fast
Fixed-price sprint
From £X,XXX
- ✓10-Day AI Sprint or 2-week Opportunity Audit
- ✓Senior team, no juniors learning on your budget
- ✓Working prototype or ranked roadmap
- ✓Go / no-go decision pack
For a defined product or platform
Scoped project
Fixed scope, fixed price
- ✓Discovery and estimate first, always
- ✓Milestone billing tied to demos
- ✓Change control you can see
- ✓Warranty period after launch
For an ongoing roadmap
Retained team
Day-rate bands £XXX to £X,XXX
- ✓Dedicated squad, monthly rolling
- ✓Published day rates by role
- ✓Monthly outcome reporting
- ✓Hand over to in-house whenever you choose
For keeping things secure and current
Support retainer
From £XXX / month
- ✓Security patches and dependency updates
- ✓Monitoring and incident response
- ✓Small changes bank
- ✓Quarterly health review
Prices shown are placeholders pending final rate card. All prices exclude VAT.
Principles
Six things we do on every project.
01
A number before a line of code
Every engagement starts by agreeing the metric that will tell us it worked.
02
Senior people, small teams
You get the people you met in the pitch. We do not swap them out.
03
Weekly demos, not monthly reports
You see working software every week and can change course cheaply.
04
Your repos, your cloud, your IP
Nothing is locked in with us. Documentation is part of done.
05
Security and evals built in
Threat modelling, evaluation sets and guardrails are in every estimate, not an upsell.
06
Honest scoping
If software is not the answer, or a cheaper tool exists, we will tell you.
FAQs
Straight answers.
How quickly can we start, and how long does a project take?
We can usually start a 10-Day AI Sprint or an Opportunity Audit within two weeks. A well-scoped MVP, app or website typically takes eight to sixteen weeks. Larger platforms run longer, and many clients keep a retained team afterwards.
Do you publish prices?
Yes. Our sprints and audits are fixed price, and our engagement models page shows day-rate bands for retained teams. You will never get a surprise invoice from us.
What technologies do you use?
The right ones for the job. For the web we favour Astro, Nuxt and Next with a headless CMS. For AI we work across Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and open-weight models, selected by evaluation rather than fashion. For apps we build natively or cross-platform depending on the product.
Who owns the IP and the code?
You do. Everything we build is delivered into your repositories and your cloud accounts, with documentation your own team or another supplier could pick up.
Can you support us after launch?
Yes. We offer monthly support retainers for security, updates and small changes, and retained product teams for ongoing roadmap delivery. We also help clients hire and hand over to in-house teams when that is the right move.
How do you handle data security and AI risk?
Every AI engagement includes a data and security review, evaluation against your success metrics, and guardrails against prompt injection and data leakage. We align governance work to ISO 42001 and can work inside your existing ISO 27001 controls.
Talk to us about AI and digital
A 30-minute call. No deck, no pitch. Bring a problem and we will tell you honestly whether AI, software or neither is the answer.