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Engagements & pricing

Clear scope. Published prices.

Every engagement has a defined outcome, a fixed price agreed before work starts, and acceptance criteria written down so we both know what “done” means. Prices are in Canadian dollars.

Architecture & AI Readiness Review

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CAD $4,500

2 weeks

A senior review of your system, plans and team, with a written, prioritized roadmap.

Best for: Before a major build, an AI initiative, a funding round or a vendor decision.

  • Interviews with your team and a walkthrough of the current system
  • Review of architecture, code, cloud setup, security and costs
  • Assessment of AI opportunities and risks in your workflows
  • A written report with a prioritized 90-day roadmap
  • A 60-minute readout with your leadership team

Fixed price. The full fee is credited against any follow-on engagement booked within 60 days.

Book a review

Agent Evaluation Sprint

From CAD $15,000

3 weeks

Find out whether your AI agent is ready for production, with an evaluation suite you keep.

Best for: Teams about to launch, or already running, an AI agent or LLM workflow.

  • Success criteria and failure modes agreed with your team
  • A task suite built from your real cases, with automated graders
  • Baseline results across your current prompts and models
  • A findings report: where it fails, why, and what to fix first
  • The suite wired into CI so every change is measured

Fixed scope and price, agreed in writing before work starts.

Discuss an eval sprint

Build Sprint

From CAD $28,000

4–6 weeks

A working, production-grade slice of your product: an MVP, an AI workflow or a critical integration.

Best for: When you know what to build and need it built properly, quickly.

  • Acceptance criteria agreed in writing before work starts
  • Architecture, code and infrastructure as code in your repositories
  • Automated tests, CI/CD and deployment to your AWS account
  • Documentation and a handover session with your team
  • 30 days of fixes for anything that doesn’t meet the agreed criteria

Fixed price per agreed scope. You own all code and IP.

Scope a build sprint

Open Banking Readiness Assessment

From CAD $7,500

3 weeks

Prepare your architecture for Canada’s Consumer-Driven Banking framework.

Best for: Fintechs and financial institutions planning to participate in, or be accredited under, the framework.

  • Gap analysis of consent, security, data-sharing and identity architecture against the proposed requirements
  • Target architecture and integration plan
  • Prioritized remediation roadmap
  • Technical documentation to support your accreditation work

Architecture advice, not legal advice. We work alongside your legal and compliance advisors.

Talk about open banking

Fractional Architect / CTO

From CAD $9,500 / month

Monthly, 3-month minimum

A principal architect on your leadership team for a set number of days each month.

Best for: Companies that need senior technical leadership without a full-time executive hire.

  • About four days a month of senior time, scheduled around your priorities
  • Architecture decisions and reviews, written down
  • Hiring, mentoring and vendor oversight
  • A monthly written update for leadership

We take on a small number of retainers at a time so each gets real attention.

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Something else?

Larger builds, ongoing development and specialist reviews are scoped individually. Tell us what you need and we’ll suggest the simplest engagement that fits.

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How an engagement runs

Six steps, every time

  1. 01. Understand

    We start with your business goal, your current system and the constraints that matter: regulation, budget, team and timelines.

  2. 02. Agree scope and acceptance criteria

    Before any build work, we agree in writing what will be delivered and how we will both know it works. That becomes the fixed scope and price.

  3. 03. Build in short, visible increments

    Work happens in your repositories and cloud accounts, with regular demos, so you can see progress and change direction early.

  4. 04. Test against the criteria

    Automated tests and evaluations check the work against the agreed criteria, including security and, for AI systems, accuracy.

  5. 05. Launch with infrastructure as code

    Deployments are automated and repeatable, so launches are predictable and environments can be rebuilt from code.

  6. 06. Hand over, or keep going

    You get documentation and a handover. If you want ongoing architecture leadership, we can continue on a fractional retainer.

Questions

Frequently asked

Who actually does the work?

Our principal architect leads every engagement and does the architecture and core engineering personally. If an engagement needs extra hands, we tell you up front who they are and what they will do.

Why publish prices?

So you can decide quickly whether we’re a fit, without a sales process. “From” prices are where typical engagements start; the exact price is fixed in writing once we’ve agreed the scope.

What does the Readiness Review cost if we continue?

Nothing extra. The full review fee is credited against any follow-on engagement booked within 60 days.

Do you work with companies outside Canada?

Yes. We’re based in Toronto and work remotely with clients across Canada and the United States, in Eastern Time–friendly hours.

Will you sign an NDA?

Yes. Confidentiality is standard in our work, which is also why client names don’t appear on this site.

Do prices include tax?

Prices are in Canadian dollars and exclude applicable sales taxes.

Next step

Tell us what you’re working on

Send a short description of your project or problem. You’ll get a reply from our principal architect within two business days, with an honest view on whether we’re the right fit.

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