Every service starts with the same question,
before anything gets built, with hope and doubt, with a good team,
and with a no, sometimes.Every service starts with the same question.
Will it work in production? You don’t buy a build here until
someone has answered that in writing. The assessment is free, the scope is signed,
and everything below is priced off what the scope actually found. That order
is the service.
We read what you have and where it hurts. Context, not code.
Two days later you know whether it’s worth a scope. If not, we say so and
you keep the answer. See what the assessment asks for.
Step 02
Production Audit$5,000 · within 5 business days
Your theory tested against a written rubric, with evidence,
ranked findings, go or no-go, acceptance criteria and a production plan.
Signed, and it stands alone. Take it anywhere, including to someone else’s
build team. See what’s inside a scope.
Step 03
The Unlockspriced and scheduled by the scope
Five ways the work gets built. The scope decides which one
you need, what it costs and how long it takes, which is why none of them
carry a price on this page.
You don’t have to know which door. Here’s how to tell.
Find the sentence that sounds like your week. If none of
them do, that is what step 01 is for, and it costs nothing.
“The demo works and the board is asking when it ships.”→ Prototype to Production
Something real exists and real customers are coming. The work is the
part that never had to hold.
“The same work happens every week and nobody was hired for it.”→ AI Agents
A loop with a start and a finish, running on people who were meant to
be doing something else.
“We looked. Nothing off the shelf fits.”→ Custom AI Build
No product to buy, so the work gets done the hard way instead, every
day.
“AI built it, it’s live, and nobody has looked yet.”→ AI Security
You have had the thought already: what else can this thing do, for
someone who isn’t me?
“I can’t even say which of those I am.”→ Step 01, and it’s free
The most common answer, and the cheapest to resolve. Ten minutes of
plain words, a straight answer in two days.
The five, side by side.
The same questions of each one, so the differences are the
answers and not the wording. Only the audit carries a price here, because it
is the only one whose size is always the same. The rest are priced by the
scope, which is what the audit produces.
AI Opportunity Auditthe assessment and the scope, together
Steps 01 and 02 sold as one thing. Your situation tested against a written rubric, and a verdict with a name signed under it. It is the only service here with a printed price, because it is the only one whose size is always the same.
What you get
A written answer from the assessment. Then one document, eight parts: the verdict on page one, ranked findings with evidence, scope and exclusions, acceptance criteria, a build plan with a clock, and the payoff in numbers. The anatomy, part by part.
What it costs
$0 for the assessment. $5,000 for the scope. A no-go costs the same as a go, on purpose.
The clock
Two days, then up to five business days.
What we need from you
Ten minutes and plain words at the free step: what it does, what built it, where it hurts. No code, no credentials. At the scope, an NDA first, then whatever the questions actually need. And one thing no form supplies: a willingness to hear no.
Not this if
The build decision is already made and funded whatever a document says. A scope you intend to overrule is $5,000 spent on ceremony, and we would rather say that now.
Proof
BUSTA. We stopped guessing and measured the ceiling: two formal load tests, 120 then 350 safe concurrent users, and the failure written down while it was still embarrassing.
AI Agentsagentic systems, in your operation
Software that carries a defined job through your actual systems: reading where your data lives, acting through the tools your team already uses, stopping for a person at every call that matters. The lanes are research, ops, support and sales. The engineering is the wiring and the permissions.
What you get
An agent wired into your operation, running in your accounts under least privilege so you can revoke it. The permissions decision on paper before it runs: what it does alone, what it brings to a person, what gets logged. A named owner, a runbook, an incident plan, and a written answer for the day a model changes underneath it. AI Agents in full.
What it costs
Priced by the scope, in writing, before the build starts. One agent reads a feed; another touches your books. They are not the same size and we will not pretend they are.
The clock
Set by the scope. Not guessed here.
What we need from you
Access to the systems it touches, granted in your accounts. A person with the authority to decide what it may do alone, because that decision is most of the build and it cannot be ours. And someone who will own it after launch.
Not this if
Nobody will own it. An unowned agent is a liability holding your credentials. If the job needs human judgment at every step, an agent adds a layer without removing work.
Proof
Our own operation runs on agents every day, which is where the method came from. No client agent is on the public record yet, and Arkeo is the honest version of that: the chain got built, the AI half is still a plan. Named examples go here as partners clear them.
Prototype to Productionthe last thirty percent
You have an AI-built app that works when you demo it, and it needs to work when strangers use it on a bad day. We take the prototype as the spec, keep what holds, replace what will not, and build the layer the demo never needed.
What you get
A read of the build first: what stays, what goes, and the written reason for each. Then auth that keeps thousands of strangers apart, migrations and backups and an audit trail, error paths and fallbacks, a load test and a cost model in numbers, and the security questionnaire answered. It ships with deployment, rollback, monitoring and a named owner. Prototype to Production in full.
What it costs
Priced by the scope. Prototypes arrive in every condition and a number here would be a guess.
The clock
Set by the scope, before a line of production code moves.
What we need from you
The prototype itself, under NDA, repo included. Whatever you know about how it was built, including “a contractor did it and left.” The truth about whether real users or real data are on it already. And a decision made in advance: whether you can accept a scope that says part of it has to go.
Not this if
Nobody outside your building has wanted the demo yet. Hardening an unvalidated idea is money spent making a question more expensive. Validate first, and the free assessment will say so if that is what it finds.
Proof
Arkade. Rebuilt from scratch while the buckling old site stayed patched and trading. A 58-scenario green sheet, a 320px floor written into the standards, and 20 failures our own QA caught before a customer lost a game key.
Custom AI Buildgreenfield, with AI and your team
The from-zero service, for the problem no product solves. We map the workflow and the data before designing anything, then build with your team in the room, so what ships is theirs to run and change. You own it when we leave.
What you get
A system designed from your workflow outward and integrated with what you already run. Your team trained by building beside us rather than by handover deck. A finish line in writing before the build starts: acceptance criteria for function, performance and security, and what paying off means in numbers against how the work is done today. Documentation, monitoring, an incident plan and a named owner, before launch day. Custom AI Build in full.
What it costs
Priced by the scope. Greenfield has the widest range of sizes on this page, which is exactly why no number sits here.
The clock
Set by the scope.
What we need from you
Your team’s actual hours, not their approval. The people who do the work today have to be in the design, because they know it better than any requirements document. Access to the current workflow including the ugly spreadsheet version, and the numbers on how it gets done now, because payoff is measured against them.
Not this if
A tool off the shelf covers it, in which case buy the tool and the assessment will name it. Or the process is still changing month to month: software freezes decisions, and yours are not done moving.
Proof
ShapeShift. No product existed to buy. Concept with Erik Voorhees in 2014, live in summer 2015, more than a million transactions a day at peak, and a pattern the industry copied.
AI Securityreview · hardening · watch
A review of an AI-built system by people who build with the same tools daily and watch where they cut corners. We read your app the way someone hostile would, then tell you what we found, ranked, in writing.
What you get
Findings ranked by what being wrong would actually cost, in a document written to survive being handed to your own engineers or another firm. Coverage of the gaps AI-built systems ship with: keys in the bundle, database rules never tightened after the demo, the model as an entrance, dependencies nobody chose. Hardening and watch priced on the same page, decided by you with the list in hand. AI Security in full.
What it costs
Priced by what the review has to cover. A fix cannot be priced before it is found.
The clock
Set by the scope. If you think a key is already exposed, do not wait for us.
What we need from you
Context in plain words at the free step. Never credentials, at any step, by any channel. For the review, under NDA: the code, and enough architecture to read it honestly.
Not this if
You need a certificate. A review from us is not a SOC 2 report or an accredited attestation, and if your enterprise deal needs an auditor’s letterhead, hire the auditor.
Proof
Arkeo. 18 of 18 third-party audit findings resolved, every fix independently retested by the firm that found the bug, final report marked for public release. We did not grade our own homework.
What every engagement ships with, whichever door you came through.
A name on itnot a queue
Someone signs the verdict and someone owns the system at launch.
Both are people, and you will know which ones.
Done, defined firstbefore the work starts
Acceptance criteria for function, performance, security and accuracy,
written before the iteration begins rather than argued at the end.
No-go is a real answerand it costs the same
If the honest finding is don’t build it, you get that in writing. We
are not paid more for saying yes.
The document is portableyours to take anywhere
The scope is written to work in someone else’s build team’s hands,
including a competitor’s. That is the point of buying it.
Paper before codeNDA at the scope
The free step is designed not to need one. The NDA arrives with the
scope, signed before any code moves.
Rather say it out loud? Let’s talk. Twenty minutes, no charge.
You don’t have to know which one you need. That’s what step
01 is for. It costs nothing and it ends with an answer either way. Not
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