pricing · fixed scope · never hourly
Priced against the alternative.
A senior evals engineer runs $180–300K+ a year — if you can even find one. A big consultancy starts at six figures and leaves. Every offer below is fixed-price, productized, and ships in your repo and your tools. Platform and API costs stay yours — pass-through, no markup.
01 / the ladder
Start small. Stay because it works.
core offers — the path
add-ons
02 / vs a full-time hire
The role barely exists in hiring pipelines.
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03 / back-of-envelope roi
What does a quality incident cost you?
your assumptions
Customer-visible quality incidents avoided per quarter
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Cost per incident — churn risk, eng firefighting, trust
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the math, annualized
Incident cost avoided / year
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Managed — Maintain retainer / year
$42,000
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for a B2B AI product, a single enterprise-facing quality failure usually costs more than a year of Maintain
04 / the rules
How engagements work
✓ fixed prices, never hourly
You buy outcomes with a scope and a deadline — not a meter running.
✓ no lock-in, by design
Everything ships in your repo and your tools. Leave anytime — you keep a working system.
✓ platform costs pass through
Your Braintrust, Langfuse, or Datadog bill stays yours. No markup, no resale.
✓ retainers: 3-month minimum
Maintain and Scale run monthly after a 3-month start; Embedded is quarterly, capped at two concurrent clients.
05 / next step
Not sure which rung? Take the two-minute quiz.
10 questions · instant score · stage placement → the right offer