What we build · Technolz
The build spectrum: from a website to an agent that runs part of the business.
We publish prices so you can decide whether a conversation is worth having before spending time on a sales process. Work here runs from a one-week small build to a dedicated technical owner — both have a published starting shape. The numbers below sit on the 2026 cost curve: AI-assisted tooling produces the raw build; we price the part AI can't do alone — UX, design, and brand judgment; QA and user-acceptance testing; decisions about data and security; and a named owner at the end of every build.
They are profiles, not packages — most real engagements blend two. Find where your work sits, then read the rungs above and below it.
How much this is worth to the business — revenue, capacity, decision quality.
What's at stake when it goes wrong — money, data, brand, accountability.
How much work it takes to build right. Sets the one-time investment.
What it costs to keep running well — hosting, services, monitoring, supervision.
When the work starts paying for itself — the wait for the first useful result.
How much technical care it needs to keep running well after launch.
01 Content Website Web presence A visitor-facing site that tells the story and turns visitors into conversations. $800–$3,000
What it is
A marketing site, landing page, or content site — static or CMS-driven, built to be edited without a developer. The classic first build, and usually the smallest real project there is.
Examples
- A services firm's site with a blog and contact path
- A product landing page with a CMS behind it
- A winery's story, tasting, and booking pages
Who it's for
Any business with a story to tell. Stage-independent — the work most companies commission first, and keep as a standing asset.
What we take seriously
Edits without a developer, basic SEO, uptime, and safe form handling. Simple doesn't mean careless.
02 Ecommerce Web + payments A storefront that takes orders, payments, and runs the business of selling. $2,500–$7,500
What it is
A catalog, cart, checkout, payments, and orders — on a proven platform where it fits, or built on payment infrastructure when the business model needs more: subscriptions, memberships, complex pricing, B2B quotes. A marketplace or custom billing engine stops being e-commerce and becomes a custom application — rungs 05–06 territory.
Examples
- A winery's direct-to-consumer club and tasting bookings
- A membership or subscription product
- A B2B quote-to-order flow
Who it's for
Product and service businesses selling online — from a solo founder to an established brand. Online ordering is revenue here.
What we take seriously
Payment correctness end to end, orders that can't silently vanish, inventory consistency, protected customer data, and checkout tested as the money path it is.
03 Workflow Automation Operations Software that absorbs the repetitive work — intake, routing, approvals, follow-up — and keeps judgment with people. $2,000–$6,500
What it is
Connecting the tools a business already uses — email, forms, CRM, documents — and automating the steps in between. Rules where answers are predictable, AI where understanding is needed, humans where judgment matters.
Examples
- Client intake: a request arrives, gets classified, recorded, routed, acknowledged — and escalates on exceptions
- Invoice and document processing with human review on the odd cases
- A weekly report assembled without someone doing it by hand
Who it's for
Service businesses and operators whose admin load grows with volume — most often 5 to 50-person teams at the point where another hire would just move data around.
What we take seriously
Every step either completes or surfaces as an alert — nothing vanishes. Systems connect without double-processing, exceptions reach a human, and the trail is auditable.
04 Takeover & Stabilize Existing systems An existing system — often built fast with AI — made dependable before it costs the business. $5,000–$12,000
What it is
Work on a system that already exists and is live before it's ready. The job is making it safe: fixing the risks that keep you up at night, adding checks and recovery, and leaving it safer to operate — and safer to change.
Examples
- An AI-built app that customers already use, taken from fragile to dependable
- A system about to launch, hardened before it carries real load
- Replatforming, or a security and compliance pass on an existing application
Who it's for
Founders and operators who shipped fast and are now nervous about what's running — the moment when speed stops being the risk and reliability becomes the business's job.
What we take seriously
Read-only first: understand it before changing it. Every fix verifiable and reversible. Nothing ships without a way to prove the system is safer than before — and a named owner afterward.
05 Business Application Product A focused custom application that owns a workflow end to end — a portal, an internal tool, a case system. $10,000–$28,000
What it is
A customer portal (documents, status, requests, payments), an internal tool (case management, approvals), or a workflow application that replaces spreadsheets and email chains. Built in a fixed, agreed scope.
Examples
- A client portal for a professional services firm — secure uploads, intake, status, invoices
- A community or HOA request system with approval workflows
- An internal case-management and operations tool
- A founder MVP — the smallest useful product to test a real opportunity
- A customer or field mobile app — native where it must be, web-first where it shouldn't
Who it's for
Established operations where generic software stops fitting, and product companies shipping their first real application. The trigger: your team moves information between four tools to finish one job.
What we take seriously
Workflow correctness, protected and access-controlled data, recoverable backups, monitoring, and a named owner after launch. Dependence starts on this rung, so operational readiness is not optional.
06 Data Platform Data The business's numbers, made dependable — collected, kept trustworthy, and shown where decisions are made. $15,000–$40,000
What it is
Pipelines that gather data from the systems a business already runs, keep it clean and consistent, and surface it in reports, dashboards, and the tools that actually get used — replacing spreadsheet truth.
Examples
- A revenue and operations dashboard that replaces the monthly spreadsheet scramble
- Customer and cohort reporting — where growth actually comes from
- Cross-system operations reporting for a service business
Who it's for
Growth-stage companies whose decisions are outrunning their spreadsheets — reporting has become a bottleneck and people argue about whose numbers are right.
What we take seriously
Reports that prove they're current and correct, one definition for every metric, rightsized access to sensitive data — and the honest note that every credible AI initiative later stands on this foundation.
07 AI-Enabled Application Intelligence A product or workflow where AI does real work — understanding documents, finding answers, drafting — inside a controlled app. $15,000–$40,000
What it is
AI as a capability inside software, not the whole show: document understanding, semantic search over a knowledge base, summarization with sources, classification and recommendations — each guarded by the workflow around it.
Examples
- Document understanding for a firm drowning in intake paperwork
- Semantic search over an internal knowledge base
- Proposal or case summarization with sources attached
Who it's for
Businesses sitting on valuable unstructured information — contracts, requests, records — with a workflow that could use it. Often the "we should do something with AI" request, steered into something concrete and bounded.
What we take seriously
Bounded data — the model sees only what it may. Grounded answers with sources over smooth talk. Human review on consequential output, and a test set re-run before every change.
08 Agentic Workflow Autonomy AI that takes bounded action — deciding the next step, using tools, coordinating — with people in the loop where it matters. $20,000–$55,000
What it is
An agent that works the workflow: understands what's in front of it, picks the next step, uses the business's tools, and performs bounded actions — then hands anything consequential to a person. Every action recorded.
Examples
- An intake agent that validates, enriches, routes, drafts follow-ups, and escalates the cases needing judgment
- An operations agent that reconciles records and surfaces anomalies
- A research agent that assembles decision briefs with sources
Who it's for
Scaling businesses with defined processes and real volume — mature enough to hold guardrails. Honest mismatch: a broken or undefined process. Automation makes those fail faster, not better.
What we take seriously
Bounded tool access, human approval on consequential actions, external content treated as untrusted, a full audit trail, a kill switch, and someone accountable.
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