01.1 MANUAL
Work humans shouldn't be doing.
Someone on your team retypes the same data into three systems every week. It works, until they’re out.
WORK WITH ME DIRECTLY · FOR YOUR OWN COMPANY
Software for your own operations.
If you run operations at a growing company and want the work built for you, not through an agency, these are the two offers. Same engineer, same written scope, published prices.
01 / THE PROBLEM
Three ways this usually shows up.
01.2 SILOED
Systems that don't talk to each other.
The CRM, the billing tool, and the spreadsheet all disagree, and nobody knows which one is right.
01.3 QUOTED
Software you were quoted $80k and nine months for.
The scope was padded, the timeline was a guess, and the vendor wanted a discovery phase before committing to either.
02 / AUTOMATION SPRINT · 2 WEEKS · $6,500 FIXED
Two weeks. One workflow gone. Permanently.
Pick the process someone on your team does by hand every week. In two weeks it runs without them, it is documented, and the code is in your repository. These are the shapes it usually takes. If yours is not on the list it is probably a variation of one that is, and the written scope will say which.
- 01DOCUMENT INTAKE → OCR → AI EXTRACTION → APPROVAL
- 02LEAD CAPTURE → ENRICH → SCORE → ROUTE → ALERT
- 03OUTREACH SEQUENCES WITH OPEN/CLICK ATTRIBUTION
- 04MULTI-SYSTEM REPORTING INTO ONE DASHBOARD
- 05AI OVER INTERNAL DOCS AND POLICY (RAG)
03 / THE TEN DAYS
What the two weeks look like.
DAY 0
Request
You describe the process in writing. One process that bothers you is enough to start.
DAY 1–2
Scope and sign-off
One workflow gets picked, written down end to end, and priced at $6,500. You approve the scope before any code exists.
DAY 3–8
Build
The pipeline gets written against your real data, in your repository, with tests around the parts that would hurt if they broke quietly.
DAY 9–10
Handover
Deployed, documented, and walked through on video. The repo is yours. Nothing in it requires me to keep running.
04 / SPRINT SPECIFICATION
| Offer | Automation Sprint |
|---|---|
| Turnaround | 2 weeks |
| Price | $6,500 fixed, then $1,500–4,000/mo |
| Deliverables | One end-to-end workflow automated, documented, handed over |
| Best for | Ops teams doing repeated manual work |
| Ownership | Work happens in your repo from day one. Ownership transfers on final payment. README and a walkthrough at handover. |
05 / OPS RETAINER
What happens after the sprint.
Optional, and genuinely optional: the sprint deliverable runs on its own. A retainer buys you someone who watches it and keeps building.
$1,500/mo
Monitoring, fixes and small changes to what is already live.
$2,500/mo
The above, plus one new workflow automated per quarter.
$4,000/mo
The above, plus a standing block of build time each month.
This is a direct retainer for your own company. Agencies should use the Partner Retainer instead.
06 / CUSTOM BUILD · 6–8 WEEKS · FROM $15,000
The engineering team you can't afford to hire.
Software no vendor sells you, scoped to the thing you actually need and priced before it starts. Six to eight weeks from a signed scope.
- INTERNAL TOOLS
- The screen your team currently fakes with a spreadsheet and three browser tabs.
- OPS DASHBOARDS
- Revenue, pipeline and operational metrics pulled out of the systems they are stuck in.
- ADMIN PORTALS
- Role-aware back offices where support and finance can act without a developer.
- SAAS MVPS
- Multi-tenant from day one, with billing and isolation designed in, not retrofitted.
- BACKEND APIS
- Typed, tested, documented services other systems can build against.
- DATA PIPELINES
- Ingestion, reconciliation and reporting that runs on a schedule and tells you when it fails.
- MOBILE
- Native iOS in Swift when the job genuinely needs the device, not a web view in a wrapper.
07 / HOW IT RUNS
Four phases, no reveal at the end.
01
Scope
A written specification and a date, priced before anything is built. You approve it, or you walk with the document.
02
Build in the open
Work lands in your repository from week one. You can read every commit as it happens rather than waiting for a reveal.
03
Friday update
A short video of the working build every Friday, not a status report. Course corrections happen while they are still cheap.
04
Handover
Deployment runbook, README, architecture notes and a walkthrough video. You could hire someone else tomorrow and they would find their way around.
08 / BUILD SPECIFICATION
| Offer | Custom Build |
|---|---|
| Turnaround | 6–8 weeks |
| Price | From $15,000 |
| Deliverables | Internal tools, ops dashboards, admin portals, SaaS MVPs, backend APIs, data pipelines, mobile |
| Best for | Companies needing software no vendor sells |
| Ownership | Work happens in your repo from day one. Ownership transfers on final payment. README and a walkthrough at handover. |
SEND A REQUEST
Which process would you automate first?
Tell me the one that bothers you most. You get a written scope with a fixed price, or questions, within two business days.
IN WRITING: chemworeric@astrodigitallabs.com