Pricing and Engagement
Technical assessment at 8,500 EUR, fixed scope builds from 60,000 EUR, dedicated pods from 34,000 EUR per month and managed run services from 4,500 EUR per month.
Engagement
Four ways to work with us
Prices below are real starting points, not anchors designed to make a sales call necessary. Your number comes out of discovery, in writing, before you commit to a build.
01 / Entry point
Technical assessment
8,500 EUR
Two weeks, fixed fee, deducted in full from the build if you continue with us. A principal architect and a senior engineer read your platform, your data and your incident history, then write down what they found.
- Architecture and code review of the live platform
- Performance and Core Web Vitals field analysis
- Integration inventory and failure mode review
- Prioritised plan with effort, cost and risk per item
- Fixed price for the recommended next phase
02 / Most common
Fixed scope build
from 60,000 EUR
A defined piece of work with a fixed price, a fixed date and written acceptance criteria. Storefront rebuilds start around 60,000 EUR. Full replatforming programmes start around 120,000 EUR.
- Scope, price and launch date fixed after discovery
- Change priced and approved before it is built
- Two week increments with a live board
- Full handover of code and infrastructure
- Thirty day defect warranty after go live
03 / Continuous
Dedicated pod
from 34,000 EUR / month
A named cross functional team for a roadmap that keeps changing. Typical pod is one lead engineer, two senior engineers, a QA engineer and shared architect and delivery time.
- Named people, not interchangeable capacity
- Six month minimum, then rolling with 60 days notice
- Same engineering standards as a fixed scope build
- You own the backlog and the priority
04 / After launch
Managed run service
from 4,500 EUR / month
Operating a live platform with an enforceable service level, plus a monthly engineering budget so the platform keeps moving instead of slowly rotting.
- 24/7 monitoring and incident response
- 15 minute response on priority one
- Included engineering hours each month
- Quarterly platform review, annual peak readiness programme
Where the money goes
A typical replatform budget, broken down
Effort distribution across a 160,000 EUR replatforming programme
Figure 12 / budget splitFigure 12. Integration is consistently the line that clients under budget, and testing is the line most often cut first. Both are the reason replatforms go wrong.
Included
What the price covers
- All engineering, architecture, QA and delivery management time
- Environments, pipelines and infrastructure as code
- Automated test suites and load testing
- Documentation, run books and architecture decision records
- Handover and knowledge transfer sessions with your team
- Thirty day defect warranty after go live
Not included
What you pay separately
- Third party licences: commerce engine, CMS, search, PIM
- Cloud hosting, paid to your own cloud provider directly
- Payment provider and scheme fees
- Penetration testing by an independent firm, if you want one
- Content production, photography and translation
- Paid media, SEO retainer or other marketing services
On licences. We are not a reseller and take no commission from any vendor in the stack. That is deliberate. It means when we recommend a platform, the recommendation is not paying us a margin, and when we tell you the cheaper option is good enough, you can believe it.
Commercial questions
The awkward ones, answered
What happens if the project runs over?
On a fixed scope build, an overrun that is our fault is our cost. That is what fixed price means and it is why we insist on discovery first. If scope changes on your side, we price the change before building it and you decide.
Can we start smaller than a full replatform?
Almost always, and we usually recommend it. Rebuilding checkout, fixing performance on the storefront, or replacing a single failing integration will often return more in six weeks than a full replatform returns in six months. The assessment will tell you which case you are in.
How do you handle payment terms?
Discovery is invoiced on completion. Builds are invoiced monthly against delivered increments, not against a schedule of dates. Run services are invoiced monthly in advance. Standard terms are thirty days.
What if we want to stop?
Fixed scope builds can be stopped at the end of any increment. You pay for what has been delivered, and you take the code, the environments and the documentation with you. Run services have sixty days notice. There is no exit fee and no clause that makes leaving expensive.
Do you work with our existing agency or internal team?
Frequently. The most common shape is that we own the platform engineering and integrations while an existing partner keeps design, content and marketing. It works when the decision rights are written down in week one, which is why the governance table exists on the how we work page.
Next step
Tell us what is slowing your commerce platform down
Send the brief. A principal architect reads it, then you get a written technical assessment with options, effort and risk inside five working days. No sales call required first.