Vs traditional consulting
Same workflow. Two very different engagements.
Operators come to us from an agency SOW that ran three months, billed an hourly meter, and ended with a slide deck. We work in two weeks, on a fixed fee, and ship a live agent you own. Here is the side-by-side, in dollars and days.
Side by side
Six things that don’t survive an SOW.
The numbers on the right are how every advisory engagement we have ever replaced was billed. The numbers on the left are how every AgentRigor build is scoped.
Flat-fee pilot. Fixed scope, fixed number, paid on the milestones.
Hourly T&M, billed against a change order every time the scope moves.
Weeks. A 2-week pilot, then a build that lands most projects in <6 weeks.
Months. 3–6 month SOWs plus the change orders that grow out of them.
Refundable on a missed bar. You keep the prompt, the trace, and the eval set.
SOW deposit, paid up front, non-refundable whether the outcome ships or not.
A live agent running on your real production traffic by week two.
A slide deck of recommendations, then a follow-on engagement to implement.
Versioned prompts plus a regression sweep before every go-live.
Change orders and an hourly meter every time the model drifts.
You own the prompts, the traces, and the eval set — forever.
Vendor lock-in. The artifacts live in the agency until you pay for them again.
Source: the dozen-plus SOW debriefs operators have walked us through in the last year. Every row on the right is real, recent, and recurring. None of it changes by industry.
The numbers
Three flat fees. Zero change orders.
Pulled straight from the three-tier pricing model on /pricing. Same numbers. Same cadence. Same single source of truth.
Flat fee, scoped at pilot.
2 weeks
vs a 3–6 month SOW that bills an hourly meter for the discovery work.
Book the pilotFlat monthly.
Per month
vs a fixed-bid build that turns into a change order the week a CRM field moves.
Start a buildFlat monthly.
Per month
vs a managed-services SOW priced against headcount and a quarterly true-up.
Plan maintenanceStart the pilot
Two weeks. Fixed fee. Tell us the workflow.
We’ll reply within one business day with a scope and a flat pilot fee. No SOW, no hourly meter.