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You'll know your exact investment before you commit to anything.

Most agencies won't give you a real number until you're already in their sales process. We think that's backwards. One conversation with us produces a detailed, itemised, fixed-fee proposal — built from 900+ real projects and 20 years of delivery data. No guesswork. No bait-and-switch.

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How Our Pricing Works

Our pricing is based on the scope and complexity of what needs to be built, mapped against our Built to Last™ framework across six disciplines: problem, infrastructure, architecture, delivery, code, and team.

One conversation with us produces a detailed, itemised, fixed-fee proposal within 48 hours — built from 900+ real projects delivered over 20 years. 

Once you're ready to proceed, our Discovery Workshop validates and locks in the scope. From there you choose a delivery model: Fixed Cost for clearly defined projects, or a Team as a Service model for ongoing development and long-term partnerships. Both are delivered under ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 certification.

What Determines Your Investment

Six variables move the number. Understanding them helps you size your project before we speak.
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Product complexity

Simple CRUD applications, complex multi-sided platforms, and real-time systems sit in very different investment bands. The number of workflows, edge cases, and states drives scope.

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Integrations & APIs

Third-party APIs, legacy system connections, payment gateways, ERP/CRM integrations, and real-time data pipelines each add significant engineering scope and testing overhead.
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Number of user roles

Each distinct user type — customer, admin, vendor, operator — requires separate flows, permissions, and interfaces. Three roles can double the scope of a single-role product.
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Security & compliance

Healthcare (HIPAA), finance (PCI-DSS), government, and data-sensitive products require additional architecture, encryption, audit trails, and testing. Adds $30K–$80K to base builds.
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AI & advanced features

LLM integrations, recommendation engines, computer vision, and automation pipelines add build time and ongoing infrastructure cost. See add-on ranges below.
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Platform scope

Web only, mobile only, both, or all platforms. Cross-platform reduces cost; native increases it. Building across web and mobile simultaneously adds 40–60% to delivery scope.

Prototyping Workshop

Before a single line of code is written, Prototyping validates your scope, locks in your proposal, and produces a complete product blueprint. It's the right first step for every serious build.
Discovery Workshop

Engineer your idea before you build it

Over 3–6 weeks, we map your users, design the full product in Figma, plan the technical architecture, and produce investor-ready documentation. Prototyping doesn't produce the price — you already have that from your first call. Prototyping makes the price stick.

Projects that skip this step go 40–60% over budget on average. The Workshop exists to eliminate that risk entirely.

 

$15,000

AUD · Fixed fee · 3–6 weeks
Credited to full build

What you'll walk away with

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Not sure where to start?

Prototyping is the right first step for most founders and product leaders.

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Choose The Right Package

These ranges are drawn from 900+ real projects delivered since 2004. Your exact investment is confirmed in your free proposal after the first call — but this tells you if you're in the right room before we speak.
MVP & Validate
Prove the concept. Ship something real.
Scale & Grow
Built for where you're going,not where you are.
Enterprise Platform
A dedicated team.A long-term partner.
Typical Cost Impact
$40K – $120K AUD
$120K – $400K AUD
$400K+
Typical Timeline
3–5 months
5–12 months
9–24+ months
Product type
Web app or mobile
Single platform
Web + mobile
Cross-platform
Multi-platform
Native where needed
User roles
Up to 3
Multiple
+ Admin portal
Multi-tenant
Complex role architecture
Backend complexity
Standard
REST API
Complex
Real-time, integrations
Custom
Enterprise architecture
Cloud infrastructure
AWS (standard)
AWS / GCP
Auto-scaling
Custom cloud design
Multi-region available
Third-party integrations
Basic
Complex
ERP, CRM, APIs
Enterprise
SAP, Salesforce, custom
Payment processing
Integration with Stripe, Nuvei or others
Addon
Stripe / Braintree
Any gateway
Real-time features
Notifications, chat, live updates
Addon
Enterprise Grade
AI / ML features
Addon
Addon
Included in team
Analytics & reporting
Basic
Custom dashboards
ISO 27001-aligned delivery
IP ownership
100% assigned to client
Enterprise compliance
HIPAA, PCI-DSS, government
-
Addon
Included
Penetration testing
-
Addon
Included
Delivery model
Fixed Cost
Fixed Cost
or Team as a Service
Team as a Service
Dedicated retainer
Post-launch support
30 days
90 days
SLA-backed
Ongoing
Dedicated engineering team
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Ongoing roadmap execution
-
Addon
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Ready to Scale
Let's Evolve

MVP & Validate

Prove the concept. Ship something real.

RECOMMENDED

Scale & Grow

Built for where you're going,not where you are.

Enterprise Platform

A dedicated team.A long-term partner.

Typical Cost Impact
$40K – $120K AUD
Typical Timeline
3–5 months
Product type
Web app or mobile
Single platform
User roles
Up to 3
Backend complexity
Standard
REST API
Cloud infrastructure
AWS (standard)
Third-party integrations
Basic
Payment processing
Integration with Stripe, Nuvei or others
Addon
Real-time features
Notifications, chat, live updates
Addon
AI / ML features
Addon
Analytics & reporting
Basic
ISO 27001-aligned delivery
IP ownership
100% assigned to client
Enterprise compliance
HIPAA, PCI-DSS, government
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Penetration testing
-
Delivery model
Fixed Cost
Post-launch support
30 days
Dedicated engineering team
-
Ongoing roadmap execution
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Book a Discovery Session
Typical Cost Impact
$120K – $400K AUD
Typical Timeline
5–12 months
Product type
Web + mobile
Cross-platform
User roles
Multiple
+ Admin portal
Backend complexity
Complex
Real-time, integrations
Cloud infrastructure
AWS / GCP
Auto-scaling
Third-party integrations
Complex
ERP, CRM, APIs
Payment processing
Integration with Stripe, Nuvei or others
Stripe / Braintree
Real-time features
Notifications, chat, live updates
AI / ML features
Addon
Analytics & reporting
ISO 27001-aligned delivery
IP ownership
100% assigned to client
Enterprise compliance
HIPAA, PCI-DSS, government
Addon
Penetration testing
Addon
Delivery model
Fixed Cost
or Team as a Service
Post-launch support
90 days
Dedicated engineering team
Ongoing roadmap execution
Addon
Ready to Scale
Typical Cost Impact
$400K+
Typical Timeline
9–24+ months
Product type
Multi-platform
Native where needed
User roles
Multi-tenant
Complex role architecture
Backend complexity
Custom
Enterprise architecture
Cloud infrastructure
Custom cloud design
Multi-region available
Third-party integrations
Enterprise
SAP, Salesforce, custom
Payment processing
Integration with Stripe, Nuvei or others
Any gateway
Real-time features
Notifications, chat, live updates
Enterprise Grade
AI / ML features
Included in team
Analytics & reporting
Custom dashboards
ISO 27001-aligned delivery
IP ownership
100% assigned to client
Enterprise compliance
HIPAA, PCI-DSS, government
Included
Penetration testing
Included
Delivery model
Team as a Service
Dedicated retainer
Post-launch support
SLA-backed
Ongoing
Dedicated engineering team
Ongoing roadmap execution
Let's Evolve

Which Package Is Right For You?

If you're not sure where you fit, start here.

 

If you have an idea and want to validate it before committing to a full build,start with MVP & Validate. It's the fastest path from concept to something real users can test with the architecture to grow if it works.

If you have an existing product with real users that needs to scale, handle more complexity, or add serious integrations, Scale & Grow is what most of our clients build. It's where the majority of our 900+ projects sit.

If you're a larger organisation needing a dedicated engineering partner for the long term — custom workflows, compliance, AI integration, multi-platform — Enterprise Platform is built for that. We'll scope the right approach in your Discovery Workshop.

Not sure? One conversation and we'll tell you exactly where you fit — no commitment required!

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Why You'll See Quotes For $10,000–$40,000 Elsewhere?

Offshore and freelance quotes at this level look appealing but typically hide real costs that surface after you've committed six months of your time. Here's what a low-cost quote is usually leaving out:

  • No architecture documentation
  • QA skipped or outsourced to the client
  • No scalable infrastructure plan
  • Weak or missing handover
  • Zero post-launch support commitment
  • Rushed delivery with undisclosed trade-offs

Add-On Services

Not bundled by default. Added based on what your project actually needs — scoped and priced transparently before any work begins.
Service Description Typical investment (AUD)
AI Feature Development Production-ready AI integration — LLM connections, recommendation engines, computer vision, predictive analytics, and automation pipelines. Built to work reliably in production, not just in demos.
Requires Discovery$15K – $120K
Branding & Design System Brand identity and a UI component library that keeps your product visually consistent as it grows — from logo through to reusable design tokens your team can maintain independently.
Scoped to brief$8K - $25K
DevOps & Cloud Infrastructure CI/CD pipeline, containerisation, auto-scaling, and monitoring configured from day one. Built so your team can operate it independently — not just us.
One-time setup$5K – $20K
Ongoing Maintenance Bug fixes, OS updates, dependency management, security patches, and performance monitoring. SLA-backed with clearly documented response commitments.
SLA-backedFrom $3K/mo
QA & Performance Testing Dedicated QA, load testing, security testing, and accessibility audits - delivered as a focused workstream alongside or after the main build.
Per engagement$5K – $15K
Technical Due Diligence For existing codebases or products built elsewhere. We assess architecture, security posture, scalability, and code quality — and give you an honest recommendation on whether to rebuild or improve. Scoped engagement
Scoped engagement$8K – $18K

Frequently Asked Questions

Honest answers to what we hear most from founders, product leads, and procurement teams.

Custom software projects in Australia typically start from $40,000 for a focused MVP through to $500,000+ for complex enterprise platforms. The main cost drivers are feature complexity, integrations, compliance requirements, and whether the project spans mobile, web, or both. One conversation with us produces an itemised fixed-fee proposal within 48 hours — built from 900+ real projects, not guesswork.

You own everything, unconditionally. All code, designs, documentation, and IP created during the project is assigned to the client at the end of every milestone — written into every contract. This isn't negotiable and never has been.

Fixed Cost suits well-defined projects with a clear scope — you agree on features and price upfront, and we deliver to that agreement. Team as a Service is a monthly retainer of dedicated engineers, QA, and a Business Analyst — better suited for ongoing product development, post-launch scaling, or organisations that need a long-term engineering partner rather than a one-off build.

Very. We've delivered 900+ products over 20 years and maintain a proprietary database of every task, tool, and time investment across those projects. Every proposal includes a 20% contingency buffer. In practice, without scope changes, our quotes move less than 5%. You'll know your number before committing to anything.

The free proposal gives you a real, accurate number. The Discovery Workshop locks that number in by validating the scope. Over 3–6 weeks, we design the full product in Figma, map every user journey, and plan the technical architecture. Projects that skip this step go 40–60% over budget on average. The $15,000 fee is credited toward your full build if you proceed.

Sometimes. We conduct a technical due diligence review before agreeing to take over any existing product. If the codebase is salvageable, we'll scope an audit and improvement plan. If it has fundamental architecture problems — which is common with low-cost builds — we'll tell you honestly. Often the most cost-effective path is a structured rebuild rather than patching a broken foundation.
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What to expect

  1. 1 Share a few details
    Complete the form with your contact details and what you need help with.
  2. 2 Book your free discovery call
    Once you submit the form, choose a time that suits you for your discovery call.
  3. 3 Privacy comes first
    Sign an optional NDA to ensure the highest privacy level and protection of your idea.
  4. 4 Discovery call
    We’ll discuss your goals, the support you need and answer your questions. If we’re a good fit, we’ll outline the next steps.

What to expect

  1. 1 Share a few details
    Complete the form with your contact details and what you need help with.
  2. 2 Book your free discovery call
    Once you submit the form, choose a time that suits you for your discovery call.
  3. 3 Privacy comes first
    Sign an optional NDA to ensure the highest privacy level and protection of your idea.
  4. 4 Discovery call
    We’ll discuss your goals, the support you need and answer your questions. If we’re a good fit, we’ll outline the next steps.