Pricing
Fixed price, agreed before anything starts
No hourly meter, no discovering the cost as the project runs. Here is how engagements are structured and what you own at the end.
Discovery sprint
Fixed fee
1–2 weeks
For when you know something is broken but not what to build. Ends with a written plan you own — useful even if you never hire us to build it.
- Interviews with your dispatcher, techs, and office staff
- Audit of the tools you already pay for
- Written scope with priorities and trade-offs
- Fixed build quote with a delivery date
- The plan is yours — take it to any developer
Build project
Fixed price
quoted before we start
The main engagement. Scope agreed up front, price agreed up front, delivered in weekly sprints you can steer.
- One number, agreed before any work begins
- Weekly working demos, not status reports
- Payment tied to milestones, never hourly
- Overruns absorbed by us, not billed to you
- Source code and accounts yours from day one
- Post-launch support window included
Support plan
Monthly
cancel anytime
After launch. Keeps things monitored and fixed as platforms change underneath you — vendors break APIs, Apple changes requirements.
- Monitoring and alerting on integrations
- Bug fixes and security patching
- OS and platform compatibility updates
- App Store resubmissions when policies change
- A block of hours for small enhancements
- Priority response ahead of new projects
What drives the number
Why two projects with the same name cost differently
If you want a rough figure before a call, these are the factors that move it most. Being ready with answers makes the first conversation much faster.
How many systems it has to talk to
One clean API is a week. Four systems, one of which has no API, is most of the project.
Whether it works offline
Field software that must keep working without signal is meaningfully harder than software that assumes a connection.
How many distinct user types
A tech app, a dispatcher board, and a customer portal are three products sharing a database.
Whether data has to be migrated
Years of job history from an old system is often as much work as the new features.
App store distribution
Publishing adds review cycles, privacy labels, and release process that a web app skips entirely.
Pricing FAQ
The money questions
Everything people ask before they are comfortable booking a call.
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Why is there no price on this page?
Because a number published before understanding your business would be fiction. A booking flow for a two-truck operation and one for forty trucks share a name and nothing else. We would rather scope properly and quote once than advertise a figure that turns out to be wrong in either direction.
Why fixed price rather than hourly?
Hourly billing rewards whoever works slowest and puts every estimation mistake on your invoice. Fixed price puts that risk on us, which is where it belongs — we are the ones who chose the approach.
What if we want to change scope mid-project?
Small adjustments are part of building and we absorb them. Genuinely new scope gets quoted as its own fixed-price addition, agreed before we start it. You will never find surprise work on an invoice.
Do we pay for the discovery sprint if we go ahead with the build?
Discovery is billed separately because it produces something valuable on its own — a written plan you can take anywhere. We would rather it stand alone than bundle it and pressure you into a build you have not decided on.
What are the ongoing costs after launch?
Hosting, any third-party services, and Apple's and Google's developer program fees. You pay those providers directly at their rates rather than marked up through us. A support plan is optional on top.
What if we want to stop working with you?
You keep everything — code, accounts, data, documentation — because it was always in your name. There is no transfer fee and no final invoice for release. That is the point of setting it up that way from day one.
Get a real number
Thirty minutes on the phone is usually enough to scope the work and give you a range. A written fixed quote follows.