Pricing

Fixed-price across four capabilities. No mystery.

Every engagement is scoped, quoted, and delivered at a fixed price. You know the cost before any work starts — and if a project runs longer than estimated, that's our risk to wear, not yours. Published tiers, not "book a call for a quote."

AI & Automation

Workflow automations and workflows — ingest messy inputs, produce structured outputs, take action on rules you set.

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Discover

$4,500

2-week sprint

Workflow audit. We learn your business, map the highest-leverage automations, and hand back a written technical proposal with a fixed-price Build quote.

Kickoff workshop (60–90 min)
Workflow audit (we shadow your team)
Technical feasibility assessment
Written 5–10 page proposal
Fixed-price Build quote — no commitment

What's included — in detail

Kickoff workshop (60–90 min)

A focused first session, on-site in Melbourne or by Cal Video, where we walk through your day-to-day and identify which repetitive patterns are showing up across your week. Bring the people who actually run the workflows; we bring the questions that uncover where the time is leaking.

Workflow audit (we shadow your team)

Over a 3–4 day window in week 1, we sit with the operator — on-site or asynchronously via screen recording — while they run the actual workflows. We don't trust org-chart descriptions of how work happens; we watch the work happen. This is where the highest-leverage automation candidates surface.

Technical feasibility assessment

For each candidate workflow, we map the inputs (where data lives, what format), the outputs (what tools the result needs to land in), and the AI confidence threshold needed for the workflow to be useful in your business. Some workflows fail this test — that's a feature, not a bug. We tell you which ones up-front.

Written 5–10 page proposal

Delivered end of week 2. Scope per workflow, sequencing recommendation, fixed-price Build quote, and the explicit risks. Plain language — no jargon, no slideware. You can read it cold and decide.

Fixed-price Build quote — no commitment

The Discover fee is yours regardless of whether you proceed to Build. If the proposal lands and you'd rather take it to another shop or your in-house team, take it. We'd rather you have a real document than a binding handshake.

Build

from $15,000

fixed-price

The build of the workflow identified during Discover. Single-workflow $15k–$30k. Multi-workflow systems $25k–$80k. Tight 1-week iterations, weekly progress demos.

Single-workflow $15k–$30k
Multi-workflow systems $25k–$80k
Fixed-price after Discover
Weekly progress demos
Hand-off documentation
30-day post-launch support
AU-hosted by default (AWS Sydney)

What's included — in detail

Single-workflow $15k–$30k

One job, done end-to-end — the kind of recurring task that eats two hours a week of someone's time. Real examples: a real-estate agency where an agent reads scanned property-condition reports and fills the standard template for the photographer; a signage shop where the agent watches the supplier price-list inbox and updates your quoting spreadsheet whenever an aluminium-extrusion price moves more than 5%; a bookkeeper where the agent reads supplier invoice PDFs as they land and drafts GST coding for confirmation. Where you land in $15k–$30k depends on how messy the input is (clean PDFs vs hand-scribbled receipts), how many of your existing tools it has to talk to (one vs three+), and whether you need a custom interface to approve the output or you're fine with email/Slack drafts.

Multi-workflow systems $25k–$80k

Two or more linked workflows sharing one review queue, so your operator doesn't bounce between tools to approve each one. Real examples: an accounting practice running invoice parsing + supplier-email triage + bank reconciliation, all into one bookkeeper morning queue — two days of week's work in two hours; a small manufacturer running order parsing + supplier ETA tracking + production-floor update generation, with one agent reading all the email and posting to the right whiteboard channel; a retail group running stocktake reconciliation + supplier price-change handling + reorder drafts across multiple stores, with a single approver at HQ. Where you land in $25k–$80k depends on how many workflows feed in (two vs five), how tightly they share state (does a delay in one affect the next?), and how custom the operator-facing review surface needs to be.

Fixed-price after Discover

The Build quote in your Discover proposal is the price. Timeline overruns are our risk to wear — we sized the work, we deliver to the price. Scope changes mid-build are handled via a change request, which you decide whether to add.

Weekly progress demos

Every Monday morning. 20–30 min on Cal Video, showing what's running, what's been changed, what's blocked. You see the workflow take shape across the engagement, not just at handover.

Hand-off documentation

Architecture overview, run-book, recovery procedures, and model-update guidance. Written so your in-house team or another consultant can pick the workflow up cold. Plus a 1-page operator quick-reference for the people who use the output daily.

30-day post-launch support

Free 30-day window after the workflow goes into production. Bug fixes, minor adjustments, and tuning. If something breaks in that window, we fix it without a service request.

AU-hosted by default (AWS Sydney)

Compute runs in ap-southeast-2 by default. Tenant isolation. . Customer data doesn't leave Australia unless you explicitly opt into something else — and we'll tell you why we don't recommend that.

Run

from $750/mo

month-to-month

Optional retainer. Monitoring, model updates, incremental feature work. Entry $750 · Mid $1,500 · Senior $2,500 depending on how active the system needs to be.

Month-to-month, cancel any month
Monitoring + model updates
Minor feature work included
Three tiers by activity level

What's included — in detail

Month-to-month, cancel any month

No annual lock-in. If the workflow stops earning its keep or you want to take it in-house, give us notice in the current month and we hand over cleanly.

Monitoring + model updates

We watch the workflow's confidence scores, error rates, and throughput. When new model versions land that improve a task's accuracy or cost, we test them against your workflow before rolling them in. You don't notice — that's the point.

Minor feature work included

Each tier carries a monthly hour bank for small adjustments. Entry tier ($750) is 1 hr/mo; Mid ($1,500) is 3 hr; Senior ($2,500) is 6 hr. Features that need more than the bank get quoted separately at the Build rate.

Three tiers by activity level

Entry suits a workflow that's stable and just needs a watchful eye. Mid suits workflows where the business or input formats change quarterly. Senior suits workflows where the AI is on the critical path of revenue — quoting, customer-facing replies, anything where a silent failure costs you.

Custom Software

Purpose-built , mobile apps, internal tools. Same engineering discipline as our AI workflow builds — fixed-price, AU-hosted, audit-ready.

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Discover

$6,500

1–2 week sprint

Product scoping. Architecture, data model, integration points, written technical proposal with a fixed-price Build quote. Discover fee is yours to keep.

1–2 week engagement
Architecture + data model
Integration mapping
Written technical proposal
Fixed-price Build quote

What's included — in detail

1–2 week engagement

Sized to the complexity of the product. A single-platform MVP scopes in ~1 week. A multi-tenant SaaS or cross-platform mobile build typically needs the full 2 weeks because there are more integration points to map.

Architecture + data model

The shape of the database, the boundaries between services, where AI calls fit, and what fails gracefully when a third-party API is down. We draw this on paper before we draw it in code — because the rewrites you avoid here are the ones that would otherwise cost you a month in Build.

Integration mapping

Every external system the build needs to talk to — your POS, your accounting, your payment provider, your email sender — gets mapped with the authentication shape, rate limits, and failure modes. This is where most software projects underestimate the work.

Written technical proposal

Architecture, data model, integration list, page/screen inventory, sequencing recommendation, and the fixed-price Build quote. Written for both a technical buyer and a non-technical one — both versions land in the doc.

Fixed-price Build quote

Same as the AI Automation pattern: the Discover-derived quote is the Build price. No hourly billing surprises. The Discover fee is yours regardless of whether you proceed.

Build

from $25,000

fixed-price

Lean $25k–$45k (single-platform). Production SaaS $60k–$95k. Mobile cross-platform $45k–$95k. Builds above $95k are co-delivered with vetted contractors so solo-founder risk can't take your project with it.

Lean MVP $25k–$45k (single-platform)
Production SaaS $60k–$95k
Mobile cross-platform $45k–$95k
Above $95k — co-delivered with contractors (and why)
Fixed-price after Discover
Weekly progress demos
Full source-code transfer at handoff
Hand-off documentation
30-day post-launch support

What's included — in detail

Lean MVP $25k–$45k (single-platform)

The smallest version of a custom build that solves the core problem on one platform — web OR mobile, not both. Real examples: a solo-operator recruiter's pipeline app tracking candidates through stages (sourced → screened → submitted → interviewed → placed), pulling candidate info from Gmail and surfacing "who do I chase today" on the dashboard; a trades operator's job-tracker for the owner and three crew members with job list, photo capture, and completion sign-off; an allied-health intake-form web app on the waiting-room tablet that writes directly to the practice management system. What's NOT in this band: enterprise single-sign-on, supporting 50+ tenant organisations, or separate iOS + Android native codebases. The point is to put something real in your hands fast, watch how you actually use it, then decide whether the bigger version earns the spend.

Production SaaS $60k–$95k

A web app ready for paying customers across many organisations. Real reference: SlabLogic (our own) — concrete-estimating SaaS where contractors sign up, upload construction plans, and get back a structured takeoff priced against their own price book. Multi-tenant (each contractor's data isolated), Stripe billing, admin dashboard, monitoring. Other patterns at this band: a specialist B2B tool where 30 small agencies pay $200/mo for single-sign-on + customer-portal billing + auditor-exportable reports. What this band includes that Lean MVP doesn't: multi-tenant data isolation, real authentication with single-sign-on, billing with proration and dunning, an admin dashboard for support, monitoring + alerting on errors, and the kind of test coverage that lets you push an update on Friday evening and sleep on Saturday.

Mobile cross-platform $45k–$95k

One codebase shipping to both iOS and Android — about half the cost of two separate native apps and identical features across both. Real examples: a trades field app with photo capture per job, GPS-tagged check-ins, customer signature on completion, and offline mode for blackspot suburbs (owner on iPhone, crew on Android, same app); an allied-health intake-form replacement that runs on the practice's existing iPad and the cheaper Android tablet they buy next year, with no separate codebase; a delivery driver tool with route optimisation, parcel scanning, and proof-of-delivery photo across a mixed-device contractor fleet. What this band doesn't suit: games (need native performance), AR/VR (need native frameworks), or apps leaning on cutting-edge hardware features like depth-sensing camera or smart-watch companions. For those you want two separate native apps and a bigger budget.

Above $95k — co-delivered with contractors (and why)

Builds above ~$95k take more than three months of solid work — longer than one senior engineer can safely run alone. Illness, a family emergency, anything, and your timeline slips. So we bring 1–2 vetted contractor engineers in for the larger scope; a build that would take six months solo can complete in four with a three-person team, with no single point of failure. You still contract only with Neurastruct, pay only Neurastruct, and keep the founder as your one point of contact the entire engagement. The fixed-price discipline doesn't change. What changes: if a contractor drops out mid-project, Neurastruct absorbs the cost of finding and onboarding a replacement — you don't get an invoice for the disruption. The bench-management fee is already baked into the quote.

Fixed-price after Discover

Same discipline as AI Automation Build — the quote stands, change requests for scope additions.

Weekly progress demos

Same cadence. For software builds you also get a staging URL after sprint 1, so you can try the in-progress build yourself in between demos rather than just watch us drive.

Full source-code transfer at handoff

Everything lives in a git repo under your organisation, or one we transfer at handover. No vendor lock-in. No proprietary frameworks you can't fork. You can fire us and the next consultant picks up cold.

Hand-off documentation

README, deployment runbook, secrets-handling guide, dependency notes, and the architecture decisions log. Plus a developer onboarding section so the next person doesn't need a handover meeting.

30-day post-launch support

Same as AI Automation. Bug fixes and tuning within the 30-day window included at no extra charge.

Run

from $1,500/mo

month-to-month

Care-plan retainer. Bug fixes, dependency updates, minor feature work. Entry $1,500 · Mid $3,000 depending on activity.

Month-to-month, cancel any month
Bug fixes + dependency updates
Minor feature work
Two tiers by activity level

What's included — in detail

Month-to-month, cancel any month

Same model as AI Automation Run. Clean handover available any month with all documentation up to date.

Bug fixes + dependency updates

We track new versions of your dependencies (Node, framework, libraries) and patch when security or compatibility makes it worth it. You don't get woken up by a security advisory you'd never have spotted.

Minor feature work

Same hour-bank model as AI Automation Run. Entry tier ($1,500) is 4 hr/mo of feature work; Mid ($3,000) is 10 hr/mo. Bigger features get scoped as a fixed-price mini-engagement.

Two tiers by activity level

Entry suits a SaaS that's largely stable, with seasonal tweaks. Mid suits a product still evolving — new flows landing every month, integrations being added, growing user base.

Web & Marketing

Fast marketing sites + social automation. Different from a scheduler. Different from a 12-month agency contract.

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Launchpad

$4,500

fixed-price

Single-page landing site. Fast Next.js, mobile-first, SEO baseline, integrated booking flow. Ships in 2 weeks. Suits trades operators, service businesses, product launches.

Single-page landing site
Mobile-first + SEO baseline
Booking-flow integration
Ships in 2 weeks

What's included — in detail

Single-page landing site

One page, designed for conversion. Hero + value props + proof + booking CTA. Sized for a service business, a product launch, or a campaign-specific entry point. Not a content site — that's Site+Engine territory.

Mobile-first + SEO baseline

Built mobile-first so the small screen never feels like an afterthought. SEO baseline = page title, meta description, OG image, structured data (Service or Product schema), sitemap entry, robots config. Not the same as a deep SEO campaign — but the difference between "invisible to Google" and "discoverable".

Booking-flow integration

Cal.com (default) or your existing scheduler wired into the primary CTA. Includes the embed config + a graceful fallback link, plus a /thank-you page for conversion tracking.

Ships in 2 weeks

Week 1: kickoff + content + design draft. Week 2: build + revisions + handover. Fixed timeline because the scope is fixed.

Site+Engine

$9,500

fixed-price

Multi-page authority site with built-in content engine — , /insights blog, automation, for Google. Same stack as this site.

Multi-page schema-driven site
Built-in content engine + /insights blog
Structured data + OG automation
Ships in 4–6 weeks

What's included — in detail

Multi-page schema-driven site

A site whose page content lives in one structured file instead of being hand-typed HTML — and that's a bigger deal than it sounds. Want to add a new service page? Add a section to the file; layout, navigation, and Google's signals update themselves. Want to change a headline? Edit one line. Want non-technical staff to update copy? They can — you can train your office manager in 20 minutes; you can't train them to safely edit HTML in 20 hours. The pay-off is over years: most sites need a "rebuild" every 2–3 years because someone broke a layout in the CMS or the design drifted from the content. A schema-driven site is the difference between maintaining the same site forever and rebuilding every couple of years.

Built-in content engine + /insights blog

A dedicated /insights (or /blog — your call) section runs on a fortnightly publishing schedule. Real example: every second Tuesday an agent looks at your topic queue, drafts a post in your brand voice, opens it for your review, you approve, it publishes Wednesday morning. Same pattern this site uses for the Neurastruct /insights feed. You control the topic queue, the brand voice spec (punchy, formal, dry, industry-jargon-friendly — whatever fits you), and the approval step (nothing publishes until you tick). Why this matters: getting found on Google is a function of consistent quality content over months. The engine is the thing that makes "consistent" actually happen — without you writing a post every fortnight, and without sounding like generic AI mush.

Structured data + OG automation

Two technical SEO wins, baked in. Structured data is hidden labels in each page that tell Google what the page is actually about — your services, your FAQs, your business info, your reviews — so Google can show your search result with extra context (review stars, FAQ expanders, opening hours, your phone number). Difference between a plain blue link and a rich snippet that actually earns the click. OG automation means every page auto-generates the preview image that appears when its link gets shared on LinkedIn, Facebook, iMessage, Slack, or X. Real example: someone shares your services page in a LinkedIn DM — without OG automation the preview shows nothing or a broken image; with it, the preview shows your headline and branding and looks deliberate. Shared links never look like they were thrown together at the last minute, because they weren't.

Ships in 4–6 weeks

Sized to whether the content is ready (4 wk) or being written during the build (6 wk). Weekly demos throughout so you see real progress, not just at the end.

Social Runtime

from $1,500/mo

month-to-month

Agentic social loop. Watches mentions, drafts replies, escalates weird cases, schedules content. Entry $1,500 · Mid $2,500 · Enterprise $4,000.

Month-to-month, no 12-month lock-in
Mention monitoring + reply drafts
Multi-platform scheduling
Weird-case escalation to you

What's included — in detail

Month-to-month, no 12-month lock-in

Most agencies require 12-month commitments. We don't. If the loop doesn't earn its keep in your first quarter, give us notice and we hand over the playbook so you can run it yourself or pass it to another shop.

Mention monitoring + reply drafts

An agent watches your @ mentions, DMs, and tagged-in posts across the platforms you're on. For each one, it drafts a contextual reply, surfaces it to you for approval (SMS or Slack), and posts on your tick.

Multi-platform scheduling

Posts queue across the platforms in your tier. Entry ($1,500) covers up to 2 platforms; Mid ($2,500) covers up to 4; Enterprise ($4,000) covers all (incl. LinkedIn personal accounts for partner-led content).

Weird-case escalation to you

When the agent sees a mention it can't confidently triage — a complaint, an unfamiliar topic, an emotionally-loaded comment — it escalates to you with the full context and a draft reply you can edit or override. You don't get bothered for normal stuff.

Operate & Run

Managed hosting, email, , . Your VentraIP account stays under your name. We charge a flat monthly management fee — no reseller markups.

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Caretaker

$150/mo

month-to-month

The baseline. Your hosting account stays healthy. SSL renews on time. DNS doesn't drift. 1 hour of minor admin changes per month included.

Hosting + SSL + DNS monitoring
Monthly health check
1 hr/mo of minor admin
Email account adds/removes

What's included — in detail

Hosting + SSL + DNS monitoring

Daily automated check on your hosting account, SSL certificate expiry, and DNS resolution from multiple regions. If any of these drift, we know before you do — usually before your customers do.

Monthly health check

End-of-month report: uptime, SSL/DNS status, email-deliverability spot-check, backup verification. One page, plain Australian English, no dashboard you have to log into.

1 hr/mo of minor admin

Email account adds/removes, DNS record changes, redirects, basic config tweaks. Anything that takes us 15 min or less just gets done; longer items get queued for the next month's hour bank or rolled into a quote.

Email account adds/removes

Routine inbox provisioning for new staff or removal when someone leaves. Includes forwarding setup and OAuth re-auth if your domain talks to Google Workspace or Microsoft 365.

Steward

$250/mo

month-to-month

Everything in Caretaker, plus active business email management, .com.au renewal handling, and 2 hours of monthly updates. Same-business-day incident response.

Everything in Caretaker
Business email management
.com.au renewal handling
2 hr/mo minor updates
Same-business-day incident response

What's included — in detail

Everything in Caretaker

All baseline monitoring and 1 hr/mo of minor admin still included — Steward adds active management on top.

Business email management

We hold the operational eye on your business email accounts — distribution lists, shared mailboxes, calendar sharing config, mailbox quotas, password resets when someone forgets one.

.com.au renewal handling

auDA-registrar relationships handled. We track .com.au renewal dates, validate that your ABN or business name still meets the eligibility criteria, and renew before lapse. No 11pm panics about a domain that expired.

2 hr/mo minor updates

Doubles the Caretaker hour bank. Useful for small content updates, plugin/theme adjustments, accessibility tweaks, or routine CMS edits.

Same-business-day incident response

When something breaks during AU business hours, we acknowledge within 1 hour and have an answer by close-of-business that day. Out-of-hours issues are SLA-next-morning at this tier — Concierge if you need after-hours coverage.

Concierge

$450/mo

month-to-month

Everything in Steward, plus monthly content/SEO health checks, 4 hours of content/plugin work, after-hours best-effort response, and a quarterly strategy call.

Everything in Steward
Monthly content/SEO health check
4 hr/mo content/plugin work
After-hours best-effort response
Quarterly strategy call

What's included — in detail

Everything in Steward

All active management still included — Concierge adds proactive content-side work and after-hours coverage.

Monthly content/SEO health check

End-of-month review of new content, broken links, page-speed regressions, schema-markup validity, and which queries are surfacing your pages in search. Surfaced as a 1-page report with prioritised actions, not a 40-page audit nobody will read.

4 hr/mo content/plugin work

Hour bank covers small content updates, plugin/theme refreshes, accessibility tweaks, or routine SEO hygiene. Bigger content campaigns are scoped separately as Web & Marketing engagements.

After-hours best-effort response

Out-of-hours issues get attended on best-effort within 4 hours. Not a hard SLA — but a real escalation phone number, not a ticket queue.

Quarterly strategy call

Every quarter, a 30–45 min review: what's running well, where the hosting/email/DNS picture is heading, what to plan for. Sized as a strategic conversation, not a status report — the status report is the monthly health check.

What's not included at any tier

These sit deliberately outside the management fee — they belong in a separate engagement so the scope stays predictable.

Major redesigns or rebrands — move that to Web & Marketing
New feature builds, custom software — move that to Custom Software
Paid-ads management — not a service we offer
After-hours incidents at Caretaker tier (SLA = next business morning)

What's outside scope

We deliberately don't sell some things other consultancies do. Setting the bar honestly upfront so you know what to expect:

AI strategy decks. We build working software, not slideware.
Hourly billing. Every engagement is fixed-price after Discover.
Generic chatbots. We build workflows tailored to your business.
Replacing your team. We automate the boring repetitive work so people do higher-value work.
Reselling SaaS or hosting with hidden markups. For Operate & Run engagements we manage your accounts (VentraIP, etc.) directly under your name — you see the supplier invoice, we charge a transparent management fee.

Common pricing questions

Why publish prices when most consultancies don't?

Because most of you are sizing the conversation before you decide whether to book a call — and "book a call for a quote" is a tax on your time. The published tiers are the real bands. Discovery is fixed-price and you keep the proposal regardless of whether you proceed to Build.

Can I skip the Discover sprint?

Yes if your scope is already clear (e.g. you've done discovery elsewhere or it's a follow-up engagement). For first-time clients we strongly recommend Discover — it's how we earn the right to quote your Build accurately.

What if the Build proposal exceeds my budget?

We tell you upfront, before any Build work starts. Often we can split scope into phases — a smaller first phase you can afford now, with a clear path to the rest later. The Discover fee is yours to keep regardless of whether you proceed.

What if the project takes longer than estimated?

Our risk, not yours. Fixed-price means we wear timeline overruns unless scope materially changes. If you ask for new features mid-build, we send a change request with the additional cost — you decide whether to add it.

Can we mix engagements across capabilities?

Yes — that's the typical shape. A client might have an AI Automation Build for their bookkeeping workflow, an Operate & Run retainer for their hosting, and a Web & Marketing Launchpad for a new product page. Each engagement is scoped, priced, and delivered independently.

How does Operate & Run's "managed, not resold" hosting actually work?

You hold the VentraIP account under your name and your credit card. You see the supplier invoice. We hold delegated operator access only. Neurastruct charges the flat monthly management fee — no commission on your hosting plan, no kickback on renewals, no licensing markup hidden in the line items. You can revoke our access at any time and the infrastructure stays exactly where it is.

Do you take equity or revenue share instead of cash?

Not as a substitute for fees. We're open to performance bonuses on top of cash engagement fees for clearly-measurable outcomes, but the base engagement is always paid upfront on agreed milestones.

Not sure which tier fits?

Start with a free 30-minute chat — no Discover fee, no obligation. We'll work out together whether Neurastruct is the right fit, and which capability and tier make sense if it is.

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