§ 00 / offer

Clear scopes.
No surprises on the invoice.

One way of working across services, better terms when you commit, and a small set of recurring options. Everything below is quoted after a short scoping call — you get the number and the scope in writing before anything starts.

§ 01 / billing

How I bill.

01 /hourly

On quote

One rate for everything — API work, custom dev, advisory, hosting changes. No discipline surcharge. You get the number in writing after a short scoping call, before anything starts.

02 /hour banks

Pre-pay, save up to 15 %.

10 h bank
~6% off the hourly rate
25 h bank
10% off the hourly rate
50 h bank
15% off the hourly rate

Banks expire 12 months from purchase. Tracked weekly. Unused hours roll into the next project.

03 /projects over 40 h

Billed in tiers.

Quoted as a fixed scope, invoiced in three milestones: 30 % at kickoff, 40 % at first deliverable, 30 % at handover.

§ 02 / starts

Packaged starts.

01 /web

Small website — on quote

Up to 5 pages, mobile-first, your branding, SEO baseline, contact form, deployable on the managed hosting below. Typical turnaround: 2 weeks.

02 /chatbot

AI chatbot — on quote

A chatbot trained on your own content — public widget on your website, private assistant for your team, or wired into your APIs to look things up and take action. Branded, RAG-backed, deployable on the managed hosting below.

§ 03 / monthly

Monthly services.

adwords
On quote · Account setup, keyword/ad/audience iteration, weekly tuning, monthly report. Ad spend billed separately.
hosting / website
On quote · WordPress or static. SSL, weekly off-site backup, minor-version updates, uptime monitoring.
hosting / application
On quote · Node, PHP, or Python apps. Same as above plus app-runtime updates and log retention.
encrypted backup / disaster recovery
On quote · Off-site backup encrypted before it leaves your server. Daily snapshots, versioned retention, and disaster-recovery restore drills with a written RTO/RPO report.
vector database hosting
On quote · Managed pgvector or Qdrant for RAG workloads. Embedding pipelines, index tuning, backups, per-tenant isolation.
distributed block storage
On quote · Block volumes replicated across nodes. Snapshots, live resize, failover without data loss.
high-security archive storage
On quote · Geo-distributed cold archive, erasure-coded and encrypted at rest. Immutable retention for long-term compliance.
managed MCP server hosting
On quote · Your MCP server behind HTTPS and OAuth 2.1. Client registration, token rotation, tool-call logging. Connects to Claude and any MCP client.
LLM gateway / usage metering
On quote · One endpoint for your model calls. Key management, per-key spend caps, model routing and fallback, monthly usage and cost report.
security patching
On quote · CVE watch on your stack and dependencies. Patches staged before production, monthly patch report, emergency patching for critical advisories.
SSL / domain / DNS
On quote · Certificate issuance and renewal, domain registration and transfers, DNS records, SPF/DKIM/DMARC for mail deliverability.

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Every engagement is quoted after a short scoping call. Quotes in Canadian dollars, taxes extra where applicable.