Pricing model
Own your platform. Lower your costs.
Stop renting software. We build custom platforms you own outright — with lower monthly costs, your choice of payment processor, and no vendor lock-in. Your data is always yours, and the code becomes yours after a year of hosting with us.
Two ways to pay.
$150/mo flat · $0 platform fees · you keep the codePay forever
Toast · Shopify · ShopWare · others — costs scale up with usage, forever.
- Monthly software subscription
- Per-transaction processing markup
- Hardware fees (terminals, printers)
- App-marketplace fees for "basic" features
- Locked to their payment processor
- Locked to their feature roadmap
- No source code · ever
- Can't move hosts · can't take the data with you
$150 /mo hosting
One-time fixed-price build + flat hosting — costs flatline after the build.
- Fixed-price build · quote before we start
- $150/mo managed hosting · flat
- $0 platform fees from us · ever
- Processor of your choice · swap any time
- Full code ownership after 12 months hosted
- Customize anything · we own nothing of yours
- Your data is portable · no vendor lock-in
- Hire your own dev to extend it
Idea to launch in weeks.
4 steps · honest scopeDiscovery Call
We learn your business, map your workflows, and identify what you actually need — not what a sales team wants to sell you.
Scope & Quote
You get a fixed-price quote with a clear timeline. No hourly billing surprises. No scope creep. You approve before we build.
Build & Review
We build in sprints with regular demos. You see real progress weekly and can request changes before anything ships.
Launch & Support
We deploy, train your team, and hand over the source code. $150/mo covers hosting, monitoring, and ongoing support.
Flat hosting, in full.
Flat · doesn't scale up with revenue- Prod + staging
- Both, isolated — typical hosts: production only, extras cost more
- SSL + domain
- Included — typical hosts: often an add-on
- Daily backups
- Included · off-site — typical hosts: tier-based
- Patch + security
- Included — typical hosts: self-serve · paid SLA
- Uptime monitor
- 24/7 · we get paged first — typical hosts: status-page email, maybe
- Own the code
- Yours outright after 12 months hosted — typical hosts: often locked
Common questions.
Short answersDo you require a long-term contract?
No multi-year contract. The build is a one-time fixed fee and hosting runs month-to-month at the flat rate. Ownership of the code transfers to you after 12 months of hosting with us — at that point it's yours outright, and we hand off the code, data, secrets, and DNS in a documented bundle with no exit fee.
What if I want to host it myself?
Once you've hosted with us for 12 months the code is yours — we hand it off with deploy instructions and can help your team get it onto AWS, DigitalOcean, your VPS, or in-house infrastructure. Before then we keep it running for you at the flat rate.
What if I need to add features later?
Three options: (1) we quote a small addition at a fixed price, (2) you hire your own dev — we write in standard tooling so any senior dev can pick it up, (3) we set you up on retainer for a fixed monthly dev budget.
How does payment processing work in your pricing?
We're processor-agnostic. We don't take a cut of your transactions — ever. You sign up with Stripe, Square, Venmo, Zelle, or your bank directly; you pay their rates; we integrate. See the Payments page.
Can you do cleared / federal builds?
Yes. Government & defense work is a separate practice with NIST 800-171 aligned compliance, STIG/SCAP hardening, RMF/A&A audit-evidence pipelines, and clearance overhead. See For government for our corporate past performance (Shields · Murray · AA Auto; Veltrigen) and key-personnel experience (counter-UAS / Fortem-class; USAF software factory / Hill AFB-class — individual cleared engineers supporting primes).
Do you offer a free consultation?
Yes. A free consultation to scope your project. We typically respond within 24 hours. If we agree to work together, the discovery + design phase is the first deliverable — you can stop after design and walk away with the spec if we're not the right fit.
New engagement
Get a fixed quote.
Free consultation. Tell us about your workload. We typically respond within 24 hours with a scoped, fixed-price quote — no scope creep.