Diagnosis first, then the development budget
Consulting saves you from the most expensive mistake: building the wrong thing. You can start for free: send us your vendor's proposal, quote or spec, and within 48 hours we'll return a written review of what's padded, what's missing and the market range for this scope. An express audit from $3,900 in 1–2 weeks shows where your IT landscape slows the business down: duplicate systems, manual data transfers, architectural bottlenecks. The report has no abstractions, just a list of fixes with the cost and priority of each. We've published our method in an article on running an IT audit, so you can start on your own.
Next comes the plan: what to automate first, what to buy off the shelf, what to have built. For every recommendation, the report includes an option without us (an off-the-shelf product, your own team or another vendor) with its price and timeline. The audit price is fixed and doesn't grow with the implementation budget. If you want us to build it, that's a separate contract with a separate quote, and you're free to take our spec to any contractor. For the strategic level, read our breakdown of digital transformation for businesses.
When something else fits better. If you need a person who makes technical decisions every week rather than a one-time diagnosis, choose CTO as a Service from $3,900/month; it starts with a free technical diagnosis. If you're short on hands rather than decisions, look at a dedicated development team. If you already know what to build and need a quote, go straight to custom software development. The full price ladder is on the pricing page.
