Step 01
Architecture review
Sixty minutes with a senior architect. Bring your current architecture and what hurts; leave with a target-state diagram and the three changes worth making first.
Pricing
Priced up front.
Because we can be.
Most consultancies keep pricing behind a sales call because their number depends on how much they think you will pay. Ours does not. We bring accelerators and senior people, so we can put fixed fees and real day rates on a public page and stand behind them.
Fixed-fee packages
Four ways in, each earning the next.
You should not have to sign a six-figure statement of work to find out whether we are any good. Start small, see the work, then decide.
Most popular
Step 02
Data & AI Assessment
Profile, target design, cost model, risk register and a sequenced plan — fixed fee, ten business days. Credited against a production build if you proceed.
Step 03
Proof of concept
One real workload, end to end, in production-shaped code — not a notebook demo — with tests, governance and reconciliation against the source system.
Step 04
Production build
The full migration or platform build, delivered in increments with your engineers working alongside ours. Scoped into fixed-fee phases wherever we responsibly can.
Time & materials
When you’d rather buy people than a package.
For work that does not fit a fixed scope, we bill by the day. Every rate below is a senior practitioner — there is no junior tier because there are no juniors.
- $195 - $220 / hr
- Principal architect — target design, Unity Catalog, platform strategy
- $140 - $170 / hr
- Senior data / AI engineer — pipelines, migration, agents, hands on keyboard
- $6,800 / month
- Advisory retainer — a senior architect on call for reviews and decisions
How to read the ranges
Where you land in a range, and why.
The packages are ranges because estates differ. Here is what moves the number, so you can guess where you sit before you even talk to us.
- Estate size. Number of tables, pipelines and stored procedures in scope.
- Source platform. Teradata and Hadoop carry more archaeology than Snowflake.
- Data sensitivity. Regulated data means more governance and more reconciliation.
- How much is documented. Undocumented logic is slower to move, safely.
The honest version
What we won’t do
We will not staff a pyramid and bill you for the layers. We will not put a junior on your project and describe them as an architect. And we will not quote a low number to win the work and then discover scope every month.
If a fixed fee is the wrong shape for your problem, we say so and switch to day rates. If day rates would run away from you, we push to scope a fixed fee instead. The pricing model should serve the work, not the invoice.
Straight answers
The questions we always get.
Are these your real prices, or a starting point for negotiation?
Real prices. The ranges reflect genuine variation in estate size and complexity, not negotiating room. We would rather tell you the number early and lose the ones that were never going to be a fit.
Do you require a long minimum engagement?
No. The whole point of the ladder is that each step stands alone. The architecture review costs nothing, the assessment is ten days, and you decide about the build afterward with the evidence in hand.
How does the advisory retainer work?
A senior architect on call for design reviews, decisions and second opinions — useful when your team is doing the building and wants someone senior to check the direction. It is $6,800 / month and cancellable monthly.
Who owns the code?
You do. Everything we build lands in your repositories, in your cloud, under your control. There is no lock-in and no license to us for work you paid for.
Start here
A free 60-minute architecture review
Bring your current architecture, data volumes and the workloads that hurt. You leave with a target-state diagram on Databricks, the three changes that would cut the most cost or latency, and an honest answer on whether you need us at all.
No slide deck. No procurement process. One senior architect on the call.