# Pricing — 404 Technologies

> AI-native product lab. Custom AI agents, Claude/MCP systems, full-stack SaaS engineering.
> Worldwide. Atlanta · America / Dubai / Switzerland. Founded by Andrew "404kidwiz" Morris.
> Contact: https://cal.com/dawizkidmal · brief form at https://404technologies.space/#brief

## Discovery Sprint

- **Price:** $4,500 USD — fixed
- **Duration:** 1 week (5 working days)
- **Outcome:** Architecture diagram, eval harness scaffold, scoped build plan, written recommendation
- **Best for:** "We're not sure what to build" or "Help us scope before we commit"
- **Includes:** 2 strategy calls, async Slack/email, written deliverable, optional intro to vendor partners

## Agentic Build Engagement

- **Price:** Starts at $25,000 USD — scoped per engagement
- **Duration:** 6–10 weeks typical (live agent in week 3, refined through week 10)
- **Outcome:** 1–2 production AI agents, retrieval index, eval harness, ops runbook, handover docs
- **Best for:** Founders, COOs, chiefs of staff needing leverage without hiring an AI team
- **Includes:** Custom Hermes (briefing) or OpenClaw (ops) agent, tone fine-tuned to founder, private knowledge base, permissioned tool access (Linear / Notion / Stripe / GitHub), weekly eval review

## AI Systems Build (LLM Application)

- **Price:** Starts at $40,000 USD — scoped per engagement
- **Duration:** 8–14 weeks
- **Outcome:** Production AI system (voice/SMS/web), multi-model routing, fallback paths, observability dashboards
- **Best for:** Operator-facing AI tools (ops, kitchens, customer-facing channels)
- **Includes:** Multi-provider routing (Anthropic Claude + OpenAI GPT + open-weight fallback), structured outputs, retries, eval framework, on-call runbook

## Full-Stack SaaS Build

- **Price:** Starts at $60,000 USD — scoped per engagement
- **Duration:** 10–16 weeks
- **Outcome:** Production SaaS with auth, billing, multi-tenancy, admin tooling, deployments
- **Best for:** Funded teams shipping AI-native product surfaces
- **Stack:** Next.js (App Router) · Postgres · Stripe · Vercel · Claude/OpenAI integrations · Sentry / OpenTelemetry observability

## MCP Server Development

- **Price:** Starts at $12,000 USD per MCP server
- **Duration:** 2–4 weeks per server
- **Outcome:** Production MCP server with tool definitions, auth, observability, documentation
- **Best for:** Teams already running Claude Code / Claude Desktop wanting to expose internal systems as agent tools

## Claude Code / AI Coding Tools Advisory

- **Price:** $3,500 USD — fixed (one-week engagement)
- **Outcome:** Custom Claude Code setup, agent skill design, slash commands, hooks, team workflow document, evaluation rubric
- **Best for:** Engineering leaders rolling out Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Antigravity, or Kilo Code across a team

## Retainer (Post-Build)

- **Price:** $4,000–$12,000 USD/month — tier based on agent count and SLA
- **Outcome:** Eval reviews, prompt versioning, model updates, observability monitoring, on-call response
- **Best for:** Teams running agents in production without an in-house AI engineer

## Engagement Capacity

- **Throughput:** 5–8 client engagements per year (intentionally scarce — studio also ships own products)
- **Next intake window:** Q3 2026
- **Discovery sprints:** 2–3 slots per quarter (faster turnaround)

## Out of Scope

- Pure marketing / content production
- WordPress, Webflow, no-code consulting
- One-off "fix our prompt" engagements under $3,500
- Pure prompt engineering with no engineering deliverable
- Training datasets for model fine-tuning (we route to specialist partners)

## What's Always Included

- Source code ownership (you own all code on day 1)
- Repo on your GitHub org
- Production deploy on your infrastructure (Vercel / Cloudflare / AWS)
- No vendor lock-in to 404 Technologies' tooling
- Weekly demo + written async update
- Final handover doc, runbook, and 30-day post-launch support

## Currency, Tax, Terms

- Prices in USD. International clients welcome.
- 50% deposit on signed SOW; balance on milestone delivery (build) or net-15 (retainer).
- No retainers under 3 months.
- Discovery sprints invoiced fully upfront.

## Last Updated

2026-05-22