Our Fees

If you ask most development companies how they charge for their services you will almost always get an hourly rate, a sliding scale, or some blend of fixed fee with contingency fees.  We do everything under a fixed fee agreement - no matter how small or how large the job.  We also 'give away' a lot of time and effort up front before we charge you anything.  It doesn't appear to make business sense until you think it through.  Traditional development shops spend a lot of time and money on sales, marketing and proposal development.  Only a small fraction of the prospects eventually lead to chargeable work.

This is inefficient. Selling to new clients all the time is difficult because of the rapport and trust that must be built up for each prospect. Our relationships to our clients are long term.  We spend our sales, marketing and proposal development budget on supporting your sales and marketing efforts.  This provides more consistent returns for us and is better for you.  By joining forces in this manner we are both better off.

• We provide free support when you need someone to 'talk technical' to your clients or business partners.
• We provide free input into your planning and discussions around new features and direction for your software.  We don't want you to get bogged down in counting hours and negotiating fees in order to pick up the phone.  We want to be as accessible to you as if you walked down the hall to chat with a colleague.  It's the spirit of the partnership.
• We provide free, up-front, requirements analysis and scoping for most work, no matter the size.  We need to do this to provide a fixed fee for our services.  When the scope or technical unknowns are too much to provide a fixed fee we give you a fixed cost for the research needed to resolve those unknowns.  So whether it's a $200 change request or a $100,000 major addition you will know what you're getting and the cost before you make the decision.
• All work we do carries a warranty so you can be assured that it works properly for the cost quoted.

The 'fixed fee' philosophy is one of the ways we differentiate ourselves from the competition.  Start-ups and new business departments form the majority of our clients.  They need cost certainty because money is tight.  We provide it.