Pricing
Start with an assessment. Keep going only if it pays.
Every partnership starts with an Operations Opportunity Assessment, priced to the size of your business and free if we can't find your team 10+ hours a week. You see the payback in your own numbers before you commit to anything ongoing, and every partnership is backed by a measured ROI guarantee. Need just one thing built? Skip the assessment and start with a fixed-scope project.
Fixed scope
One project
Already know what needs fixing? We scope it on a 30-minute call, agree on one price, and have a working version in your hands in two to six weeks. No assessment needed.
One-time
An assessment, then one project
Not sure where to start? We map the work with your team and rank every fix by hours saved and dollars recovered, then build the one at the top. If we can't find 10+ hours a week, the assessment is free.
Month to month
An assessment, then a partnership
We work down the roadmap from your assessment: building, training your team and keeping it all running. From $5,000 a month.
Fractional AI Partnership
One partnership. Three speeds.
Every tier is the same team working from the same roadmap. Moving up gets you more builds at once and more investment in your people: more training, more one-on-one coaching, and time on site. We scope it from your assessment, not from a menu.
Core
The whole roadmap, worked through steadily.
One build at a time
From $5,000 / month
- A dedicated project manager
- Quarterly AI roadmap, ranked by payback
- One company-wide AI training a month
- One-on-one coaching for key employees
- Direct line to our engineers
- Support and upkeep for everything we ship
- Monthly ROI report: hours and dollars saved
Popular
Growth
The same roadmap, accelerated.
Two builds in parallel
Scoped from your assessment
- Everything in Core
- Two company-wide AI trainings a month
- More one-on-one coaching time
- First in line for support requests
Full department
An AI department that works like it's down the hall.
Three builds in parallel
Scoped from your assessment
- Everything in Growth
- Weekly company-wide AI training and office hours
- Unlimited one-on-one coaching
- Quarterly on-site working sessions
Every tier is month to month, and you own the code, the data and the documentation.
What it costs
An assessment first, then one monthly fee
Step one · One-time
Pricedto your size
The Operations Opportunity Assessment: one to two weeks with your team, depending on their availability, and a roadmap ranked by payback that you keep whether or not you hire us.
Free if it comes up short. If we can't find 10+ hours a week to save your team, you don't pay for it.
Step two · Monthly
$5,000/ month and up
The Fractional AI Partnership, scoped from what the assessment finds. Month to month, and you own everything we build.
Pays for itself in year one. The fixes we build pay for our fee within the first year, measured against your own numbers.
Just one project?
Custom tools and integrations are fixed scope: one price, agreed before we start, and live in two to six weeks. No assessment needed.
See what we build →Just Cira?
Our AI receptionist is priced on its own. Partnership clients get it set up, tuned to their scripts and connected to the rest of their systems.
See Cira pricing at hicira.com →
The math
What 10 hours a week is worth
At a loaded labor cost of $45 an hour, 10 hours a week is $22,500 a year. That's the least the assessment has to find. Each fix keeps paying after it ships, so the savings stack as the next build lands on top of the last.
We measure it every month against your own numbers, not our estimates. That's what our guarantee rests on: the fixes we build pay for our fee within the first year.
| Fix | Hrs / week | A year |
|---|---|---|
| Timesheets from a phone instead of texts | 6 | $13,500 |
| Estimates built from your price sheet | 10 | $22,500 |
| Jobs entered once and synced to QuickBooks | 8 | $18,000 |
| New leads followed up automatically | 6 | $13,500 |
| Saved | 30 | $67,500 |
| Core partnership, 12 months | $60,000 | |
Questions
Pricing questions
How much does the Fractional AI Partnership cost?
It starts at $5,000 a month, after a one-time Operations Opportunity Assessment priced to the size of your business. Where yours lands above that depends on how many builds we run at once, which we scope from the assessment instead of quoting off a menu. For comparison, one senior AI engineer costs a full salary plus benefits and tools, takes months to recruit, and still works alone.
Why don't you list a price for each tier?
Because the work isn't the same from one business to the next. Two companies the same size can have very different amounts of retyping, chasing and reconciling, and charging them the same would overcharge one and shortchange the other. The assessment shows us what the work actually is, and we price to that.
Do I have to sign a long contract?
No. The assessment stands on its own, and the roadmap is yours to keep even if you never hire us. If the numbers don't justify a partnership, we'll say so. If you do start one, it's month to month, and everything we build is yours: the code, the data and the documentation.
What if the assessment doesn't find anything worth fixing?
Then you don't pay for it. If we can't find at least 10 hours a week to save your team, the assessment is free. Once a partnership starts, we guarantee the fixes we build pay for our fee within the first year, measured against your own numbers in a monthly ROI report, not our estimates.
Can I hire you for just one project?
Yes, and you don't need an assessment first. Custom tools and integrations are fixed scope: one price, agreed before we start, and live in two to six weeks. If you're not sure which project to start with, do the assessment and we'll build the one at the top of your roadmap. Many clients start with one build and move to a partnership once it's paying for itself.
Is Cira included?
Cira is priced on its own at hicira.com, and you can use it without a partnership. Partnership clients get it set up, tuned to their scripts and connected to the rest of their systems.
How do we pick a tier?
It comes down to how much the assessment turns up and how fast you want to move. We'll recommend one when we walk you through the assessment, and since it's month to month, you can change tiers as the roadmap changes.
Not sure which fits? Ask us in one call.
A 30-minute call with Bryan or Matthew. We'll tell you whether to start with one project or an assessment, and what it would cost, whether or not you hire us.