A licence, plus what your application actually uses.
Two lines. One is predictable, the other tracks reality. Neither is a salary.
Licence + usage
Staging included
No setup fee
No equity
Every price here has the same shape: a licence that covers the building and the keeping-alive, and a metered resource cost for the compute, storage and traffic your application genuinely consumes. We do not publish a headline figure because the licence depends on what you are running — but the structure never changes, and you will have a number after one call.
One application
A founder or a business with one thing to build
Licence + usage
Quoted after a 30-minute call
One application or agent, built and kept running. Everything on the platform is included — none of the five guarantees is a paid tier.
The metered line is the cost you would carry whoever built your application. It is separate so quiet customers are not charged for busy ones.
Compute
The capacity your application uses to answer requests and run background work. Scales down when idle.
Storage
Database and uploaded files, per gigabyte, per month.
Bandwidth
What is delivered to your users, served from a CDN so most of it is cheap.
Email
Transactional messages sent from your application, per message.
AI usage
Model usage, metered by tokens, with the model matched to the task rather than defaulting to the most expensive one.
Never an upsell
Included in every price
These are not upsells. An application without them is not one we would put our name on.
Encryption in transit and at rest
Multi-factor authentication
Role-based access control
Audit logging
Daily backups with tested restores
Uptime monitoring and error alerting
Zero-downtime deployments and rollback
Security patching and dependency updates
Staging environment
Canadian data residency
Status page
Support from the people who built it
Questions about price
Why is there no price on this page?
Because a number without knowing what you are building would be a guess, and a guess on a pricing page becomes a promise. The structure is fixed and published above; the figure takes one 30-minute call.
Is there a setup fee?
No. The licence covers the building as well as the running — the two are not separable, which is rather the point of the service.
What if my usage spikes?
Cost follows usage, and you set spending thresholds with alerts so a runaway job becomes a notification rather than an invoice. See Efficiency.
Do I pay extra for staging?
No. A second environment is how changes ship safely, so charging for it would be charging you for doing the job properly.
What happens if we stop?
You get your data out in a usable format. Being able to leave is a property of a service worth staying with.
Do you take equity instead of fees?
No. Keeping your equity is one of the main reasons to use this rather than find a technical co-founder.
Start here
Tell us what you want. In a sentence.
A 30-minute call is enough for us to tell you whether we can build it, what it will cost to run, and when it goes live.
