Clear scope. Published prices. No mystery before the first conversation.

We publish prices so you can decide whether a conversation is worth having before investing in one. Work here runs from a one-week small build to a dedicated technical owner — every rung has a published starting price. The numbers sit on 2026 cost curves: AI-assisted production keeps them honest, and humans — UX, design, QA, data and security judgment, and a named owner who answers for each build — keep them dependable. Start with a free Technical Health Review, then we agree outcome and scope before quoting a fixed price.

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Clear priorities. Practical next steps. No pressure to build.

Illustration representing clear service options and engagement paths

A senior engineer costs about $260,000–$280,000 a year fully loaded.

That is roughly $22,000 a month and takes about 42 days to hire, before ramp-up. A $4,000/month founding-client retainer is 18% of one hire, starts this week, and can stop with 30 days' notice.

We don't sell hours, so we have no reason to be slow. Most technical help is billed by the hour, which means the more slowly a problem is solved, the more it costs. We charge for the outcome.

Published Technolz pricing
OfferPublished investmentWhat it includes
Start here — always free
Technical Health Review Free
One per new client, at the start of the relationship
 A read-only assessment of what to fix, what can wait, and what is not worth building yet.
One-time work — the review turns the band into one fixed, scoped price
Content Website $800–$3,000 A marketing site, landing page, or content site — static or CMS-driven, built to be edited without a developer.
Ecommerce $2,500–$7,500 A storefront that takes orders and payments on a proven platform — or custom when the model needs it. Marketplaces and custom billing are custom-application territory.
Workflow Automation $2,000–$6,500 Connecting the tools you already use and automating the steps between — intake, routing, approvals, follow-ups. Rules where answers are predictable, AI where understanding is needed, humans where judgment matters.
Takeover & Stabilize $5,000–$12,000 An existing application — often built fast with AI — made safe to operate. Read-only first; every fix verifiable and reversible; proof it's safer than before.
Business Application $10,000–$28,000 A focused custom application that owns a workflow end to end: portal, internal tool, mobile app, or MVP — web or native, in a fixed scope.
Data Platform $15,000–$40,000 The business's numbers made dependable: pipelines, one definition per metric, reporting people actually trust.
AI-Enabled Application $15,000–$40,000 AI doing real work inside a controlled app — document understanding, grounded answers with sources, classification — with guardrails and a test set gating every change.
Agentic Workflow $20,000–$55,000 AI that takes bounded action with people in the loop: permissioned tools, approval gates, audit trails, a kill switch.
Ongoing — monthly, cancellable in 30 days
Care $750–$1,500 per month Keeps a built system healthy: monitoring, backups, patching, small changes, supervision. Operational only — no on-call, no uptime promise.
Advisory $2,500 founding · $3,500 standard per month
Founding-client rate, locked for 12 months
 Ongoing technical guidance and prioritized decisions.
Technical Ownership (fractional CTO) $4,000 founding · $6,000 standard per month
Founding-client rate, locked for 12 months
 Work the priorities we agree and report what we did each month.

How the pricing works.

A published price is the shape of the offer, not a promise that every project lands at the same number. The review turns a range into one specific, agreed price.

One-time engagement

Scope first, then a fixed price.

Ranges are the anchor. After the review, a specific one-time proposal is agreed from the desired outcome and scope before work begins.

Review outcome

Fix now, fix later, or leave it.

The review gives you a clear next step. Fix now means a scoped one-time proposal; fix later records when to revisit; leave it means no work is recommended where it is not justified.

Floors are real

Every range has a starting price.

The starting number maps to a specific, finished small scope — a landing page, one workflow, one guarded capability. The review names that scope before anything is quoted, so a floor is a promise, not a hook.

Care vs retainer

Care keeps it healthy. Retainers lead it.

Care is operational — monitoring, backups, patching, small changes — at $750–$1,500 per month. Advisory and Technical Ownership add engineering guidance, accountability, and real work.

Ongoing accountability

Technical Ownership when a discrete project is not the right fit.

Choose the monthly Technical Ownership service when the business needs continuing technical accountability rather than one-time delivery.

Scope

Work outside the agreed scope.

New requirements, additional systems, and substantial changes are discussed before they are added.

Third-party costs

Hosting, software, API, or vendor fees.

These are paid by the client unless a proposal explicitly says otherwise — or we handle them near at-cost if you would rather.

Guarantees

Guaranteed business outcomes, uptime, or revenue.

We can improve the system and the decision-making around it, but outcomes depend on the business and its users.

Rush work

Unplanned emergency availability.

Response times and scheduling are agreed for each engagement; published prices do not imply an emergency SLA.

Not sure which rung fits?

Tell us what is getting in the way.

Email hello@technolz.llc with a short description of the problem, and we will help identify the most appropriate starting point.

Email hello@technolz.llc