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Engagement model & pricing
No hourly billing and no surprise invoices. You buy a set number of points, and every feature is priced and approved before we build.
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How engagements work
A scoped 6 to 12 week engagement to design, build, and ship one defined result: a migration, a new platform rollout, or an integration program. Built by our agents and Daisa, led by a senior architect, and fully documented.
Most Launch clients convert to a managed POD — that's by design.
Agents, Daisa, and a senior architect running your systems. Every change is checked and approved before it goes live.
Shipping to production in week one, every engagement.
POD tiers
Part-time coverage to start
A senior expert, our agents, and Daisa, part time
Does the work of one full-time hire
A senior architect, our agents, and Daisa
Does the work of two full-time hires
A senior architect, our agents, and Daisa
Replaces six or more full-time hires
A senior architect, our agents, and Daisa
Not sure where you land? Tell us what your business needs done. We'll price it honestly and tell you if a POD is overkill.
The hiring math
Move the slider to the team you were planning to hire. Fully loaded year-one cost versus a Cloud Nerd POD. Forward this page to whoever owns the budget.
Fully-loaded year-one cost
⏱ 50–70 days to fill (SHRM) · 6–12 months to full productivity
Everything included in one monthly price · Growth POD
Shipping week one. $180,000 less in year one.
Sources: ZipRecruiter/Indeed/Glassdoor senior developer & architect salary data for Austin, Dallas & Chicago (2026); BLS Employer Costs for Employee Compensation, Mar 2026 (benefits = 30.1% of total comp); standard IT placement fees of 20% of first-year salary; SHRM time-to-fill benchmarks. Tools & overhead lines are estimates. Your call includes math built on your actual plan.
Common questions
Finished, working features, built by our agents and checked by a senior architect. You buy a set number of points for your plan and spend them on work that is live in your system.
Every feature gets a point cost, and you approve every point cost. Four sizes: S is 1 point, M is 2, L is 4, and XL is 8. Your tier sets how many points you have. A weekly report lists exactly which features were finished.
It's priced in points before we build, and you approve every cost up front. If sizing changes, you see it and approve it before work continues. No surprise burn, ever.
Three months to start, then it renews. Quarterly billing is standard, with 10% off if you prepay the full plan. Your price is locked for those 3 months. We flag renewal 60 days out, and a 30-day notice from you stops it.
The default is a new set of points when your plan renews. If you need rollover, we model it in the Order Form. Priorities can shift at any time, and anything your team needs is fair game.
They don't exist. That's the point of the model. You set the business priorities, change them any time, and add as much as you like. Nothing becomes a new invoice.
AI agents build and test the work. A named senior architect reviews it and signs off before it goes live. No junior staffing after the contract is signed.
A portion of your Launch implementation fee is credited against your first months of a POD contract if you convert within 90 days of go-live. The project is the beginning, not the end.
Keep hiring. We'll cover the work while you search, and we'll help the new person get up to speed with full documentation of everything we built.
No. Most clients use us to clear the work their team doesn't have time for. Your people stay focused on their main jobs.
40+ of the most common business platforms, including Salesforce, NetSuite, HubSpot, Workday, ServiceNow, AWS, and Google Cloud, plus the data and connections between them. The technology page lists the ones with a page today. If yours isn't listed, ask on the quote form.
No. We work on the software your company uses to run itself: sales, marketing, support, finance, HR, and supply chain tools.
In one 30-minute call we'll put point costs on what your team needs and hand you a price and a date.
