Pricing
Commercial ranges & what moves the needle
Every engagement is scoped after a short discovery call. Figures below are typical starting bands for SMB workloads in Southern California - not quotes until we align on milestones, integrations, and acceptance criteria.
AI receptionist
$4,800 – $14,500+
Phone and SMS answering, qualification scripts, bookings, CRM or calendar hooks, failover to your staff.
Typically includes
- Channel design (voice/text) and scripted flows tuned to how you operate
- Scheduling or CRM touches you approve - no opaque black boxes
- Handoffs and escalation rules you define
Per-minute carrier surcharges, new CRM licenses, and custom telephony integrations are quoted separately.
AI chat (RAG) & private assistants
$6,500 – $22,000+
Grounded assistants over your uploads, FAQs, tickets, or staff-only data - with access controls you approve.
Typically includes
- Knowledge ingestion pipelines and grounding checks
- Public site widget or authenticated staff consoles
- Review workflow for correcting bad answers safely
Heavy custom model fine-tuning, regulated compliance programs, and unrelated app builds are scoped apart.
UniFi network design & installs
$2,900 – $18,500+
Surveys through commissioning: backbone switching, AP placement, guest nets, VLANs, documentation.
Typically includes
- BOM-aligned hardware pass-through billing (transparent)
- Tuning visits until coverage meets agreed targets
- Hand-off runbooks so your IT or MSP can operate it
Low-voltage licensing in your municipality, trenching/conduit contractors, ISP contracts. We flag requirements early.
Custom sites & launches
$5,500 – $25,000+
Performance-first landing and marketing sites - or thin app-backed experiences - tracked in git, not fragile themes.
Typically includes
- Responsive layouts tailored to brand art direction
- Core Web Vitals–aware frontend defaults
- Deploy scripts you can rerun or hand to your team
Open-ended redesign rounds, multilingual CMS migration, unrelated product engineering beyond agreed scope.
What adjusts the budget
- Timeline compression (rush milestones)
- Onsite vs remote-heavy work ratios
- Number of integrations, environments, or brands in scope
- Data residency, retention, or access logging requirements
- Hardware BOM size and cabling complexity
- Support hours, SLA expectations, after-hours escalation
- Training, documentation depth, or train-the-trainer workshops
Care & continuity retainers
Small teams need predictable upkeep without unlimited liability. Monthly blocks cover monitoring tiers, playbook tweaks, staged content updates for chat/RAG, and network health passes - explicitly capped; overage is time-and-materials with notice.
Light caretaker
~$795/mo
One channel tweak window, quarterly health review, prioritized email triage (business-hours).
Active operations
~$1,450/mo
Bi-weekly checkpoints, prioritized incident response windows, backlog grooming with your stakeholder.
Retainers are Statements of Work addenda under the MSA - they are not all-you-can-request labor.