Strategic Machines

Pricing

Priced on outcomes, not seats

A fixed fee to commission your application, then a monthly fee to operate it, with an operator from us until your team is ready to take over.

Pricing

Commission once. Operate continuously.

Priced per application, not per seat. The ranges below are indicative; every engagement is scoped and quoted after an assessment call.

Commission

Bring your application up to speed

$5K–$20K

one-time · quoted by complexity and scope

  • Application Model + invariants
  • Held-out test suite on a test database
  • Discipline Pack installed
  • Shadow replay of your recent work
  • Readiness Report + live AC1–AC2 autonomy
  • Complex sites: training courses so your team can lead the migration, plus a support contract
Apply for commissioning

Operate

The core

The Accelerator, running your app

$6K–$20K

per month · by change volume and assurance level

  • Continuous build, test, refactor and release
  • Independent assurance on every change
  • Evidence package for every change
  • Control Room seats for your operators
  • Model spend included — no per-token bill
Apply for commissioning

Managed Operator

We run the Control Room until you're ready to

+$10K–$20K

per month · tapers as your team takes over

  • A dedicated Strategic Machines operator
  • Weekly mission and backlog review
  • Operator training for your team
  • Incident on-call with the Accelerator
  • Handover plan: managed → co-operated → yours
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Priced on outcomes

You pay for accepted change and assurance, not seats or “AI developers.”

A fraction of a team

A three-engineer team costs $600K+ a year. The Accelerator targets 25–50% of that.

Knowledge you keep

The Application Model, tests and evidence history stay yours.

FAQ

Questions worth answering up front