We do not sell hours, so we cannot price them. Every BearPlex engagement is scoped to an outcome: a diagnostic with a fixed scope, a build priced per pod, or a retainer that keeps a live system honest. The number comes after we understand the problem, and it arrives fixed.
Hourly billing structurally rewards inefficiency: the longer the work takes, the more the vendor earns. We refuse to operate that way.
Every engagement starts as a diagnostic. The number for the build arrives fixed, with the architecture that justifies it.
Code, infrastructure, and IP are yours from the first commit. The price never includes a hostage clause.
Every engagement starts as a diagnostic. The build and guardian phases follow only if the architecture warrants them. Find your situation; the shape follows.
A two-week discovery sprint. We deconstruct the problem to first principles and produce the architecture before a single engineering hour ships.
Ends with scope, phasing, and a fixed price for the build. If the build is not worth doing, the diagnostic says that too.
A 12 to 16 week engineering pod executes the core platform. Modular, evidence-driven, examiner-ready by the end of the engagement.
Ships a production system in your VPC or sovereign cloud, with the evidence packet and the operations handover.
Ongoing partnership. We own the SLOs, run the RLHF loops, and ship the quarterly architecture reviews that keep the system compounding.
Holds the line after launch, on a monthly retainer, for operators who cannot afford regression.
The pricing language differs by family, but the route to it never does: the page describes the work, the diagnostic sizes it, the quote arrives fixed.
Scoped through the diagnostic, then quoted as fixed milestones. Each page describes what an engagement covers.
Pod-based builds, and embedded teams on a monthly retainer priced per pod: three-month minimum, then month to month.
Penetration tests are scoped engagements, priced after the diagnostic like everything else.
Honest ranges, published so you can budget before we ever talk. Every floor is where credible scope starts. Your exact number still arrives fixed, after the diagnostic.
The honest part first: for most teams, buying the SaaS is the right call. Custom software earns its price in a narrow set of cases: when the off-the-shelf tool bends your core workflow, when per-seat pricing scales faster than your revenue, or when the vendor holds data you cannot afford to leave behind. If a subscription solves your problem, we will say so on the first call.
Fixed price after the diagnostic. The floor is where credible scope starts; most projects land inside the typical band.
The right call when the site is content-led and your team will edit it themselves.
For brands where load speed and design precision are the point.
Platform-first when Shopify or WooCommerce fits; custom when your margin logic does not.
Priced to reach paying users, not to gold-plate a product nobody has validated.
The demo is cheap. The production system with evals and guardrails is the price.
Only worth building after the off-the-shelf tool has actually run out of road.
BearPlex engineers work AI-augmented, so a monthly rate is judged by what ships each month, never by hours logged.
One AI-augmented engineer, embedded in your team and measured on shipped output.
A whole delivery unit shipping as one: two senior engineers, a PM, and QA.
Keeps a live system patched, monitored, and honest after launch.
The estimator gives you a working range in minutes. The call gives you a real number.
The honest version, asked the way buyers ask it.
Every engagement starts as a diagnostic: a two-week discovery sprint that produces the architecture, the phasing, and a fixed price for the build. Paid discovery gives us the time to understand your actual problem and quote a real price instead of an optimistic estimate.
If we underestimate scope, we absorb the cost overrun. That is the point of fixed-price milestones: the risk of inefficient execution sits with us, not with you. Genuine scope expansion, where you add new requirements mid-engagement, is re-scoped and re-priced as a new milestone.
A two-week diagnostic ends with the architecture, the phasing, and a fixed price for the build. If we should not take the work, we will tell you that too.
