We price to the business value at stake, not to a timesheet. The question that sets the engagement is the one a board would ask: what is this workflow worth to the business once it works, and what is the cost of leaving it broken? We anchor to that, then earn the right to the recurring relationship by delivering it.
This is the Palantir model, sized for you. The Forward Deploy Sprint and the embedded retainer land the work; the managed platform and Jakada.ai are the recurring engine where the relationship, and your leverage, compounds. The services open the door; the platform is where the value keeps accruing.
Set against the alternative of recruiting, retaining, and carrying the single-point-of-failure risk of a senior US engineer of your own, fully loaded, holding that caliber of capability as a service is the more efficient choice. We do not publish a rate card, because the right number depends on the value in front of us, and we would rather earn it in the open with you.
Forward Deploy Sprint
The fixed-fee pilot, and the cleanest way for both sides to find out if we are the right fit.
- What it is: a fixed-fee, 30 to 60 day embedded engagement on one high-value workflow.
- What you get: working software in production, used by your team, plus a clear-eyed read on what to do next.
- How it is priced: a single fixed fee, agreed before we start and scoped to the workflow. No change orders, no surprises.
- The promise: you keep the work no matter what happens next.
Embedded FDE Retainer
A senior engineer embedded in your team, month to month, building and shipping the way an in-house principal would. Priced as senior leadership and anchored to the value of what gets shipped, not an hourly rate. A full-time senior hire, fully loaded, comes with ramp time, carrying cost, and a single point of failure. The retainer gives you the capability with none of them. We scope it with you on a call.
Managed Platform Subscription
We host, operate, upgrade, and support your open-source ERPNext / Frappe platform, run by the people who built your customizations. A recurring subscription, scoped to the footprint we operate and the service level you need, with no license lock-in, ever.
Jakada.ai
Our browser-native AI agent for ERPNext, which operates the system in plain language, including an offline tier where your data never leaves your environment. A subscription with frontier, bring-your-own-key, and offline on-premise tiers. See the product page for how it works.
Three principles
They hold across every engagement:
- The pilot is fixed and you keep the work. The Forward Deploy Sprint is a fixed fee with a defined finish line, and whatever we build is yours, continue or not. We would rather earn the next engagement than trap you in one.
- The retainer is priced like senior leadership, because that is what it is. A monthly embedded FDE sits in the same envelope you already accept for fractional leadership, except this one ships production code and runs the platform. The anchor is the value of the work shipped, not a count of hours.
- The recurring layer is where your leverage compounds. The longer the platform and Jakada.ai run under us, the higher the baseline each engagement starts from, so your cost per unit of value falls over time. That is the design, and it is why our incentives stay aligned with keeping your system running well.
No offshore rates, by design. You are buying senior US engineering, ownership of the outcome, and a platform that outlives any one person.