Transparent pricing · Fixed fee, scope agreed in writing beforehand
Every assessment is fixed fee. You know what it will cost before we start.
No open-ended daily rates, no unexpected travel bills, no upselling. You get a scoped engagement, a fixed price and a written worklist. If we find less than expected, the price stays the same. If we find more, we finish the scope anyway.
Fixed
Never hourly, never variable with the outcome
50%
Creditable against remediation with any vendor you choose
4 to 8
Weeks for the sovereign assessment, tier dependent
Written
Scope signed before a single hour is billed
How we price
The fee is fixed at scope so that nobody has a reason to write a longer report.
Hourly billing rewards spending longer. Outcome-linked fees reward finding what the client hoped for. Both are common in this industry and both quietly corrupt the finding. We quote a fixed number after a thirty minute scoping call, put it in writing, and it does not move.
Two companies of the same size can differ by a factor of three in how much there is to look at, so the scoping call exists to establish which of these tiers actually fits. If the answer is that you do not need us, we say that on the call.
Assessment 02 · Deep dive
Sovereign AI Cloud Design and Run-Cost
All prices fixed, zero hidden extras
Designed for organisation leaders who are being pushed by regulators, data protection officers or internal cost shocks to move AI workloads onto infrastructure they control.
Tier 1 · Feasibility & ROM
Feasibility
Establish whether a private cloud build makes financial and operational sense before committing design budget.
$18,500
- Workload sizing and model footprint cataloging
- Hyperscaler exit cost comparison (AWS / Azure / GCP)
- Initial hardware bill of materials & power envelope
- Go / No-Go decision matrix for the board
Tier 2 · Full Architecture
Full Architecture
A complete, buildable system design with vendor quotes, data centre specs, and a 3-year run-cost model.
$34,000
- Everything in Tier 1 Feasibility
- Full rack & network topology design (NVIDIA HGX / Dell / Supermicro)
- Data centre facility evaluation & power/cooling contract review
- Binding hardware vendor quotes and supply chain lead times
- Full 36-month TCO model down to kWh and token cost
Tier 3 · Architecture + Build
Architecture + Build
Full architecture design plus on-site technical oversight during racking, cabling, cluster setup, and acceptance testing.
$52,000
- Everything in Tier 2 Full Architecture
- On-site data centre racking & cabling verification
- GPU cluster stress testing & thermal validation run
- AuditTrax Sovereign Certificate issuance upon sign-off
The other two assessments
Priced at scope, because the estate decides the work.
A transaction with three repositories and a transaction with sixty are not the same engagement. The ranges below are what these typically land at. The exact number is fixed in the written scope after the call.
Assessment 01
Technology Due Diligence
For investment committees, acquirers and lenders. Six scored areas and a costed eighteen month remediation plan.
$22k to $65k
2 to 4 weeks · Three tiers
- Screening review, for an early read before you commit deal resources
- Full diligence, the standard engagement for a committed transaction
- Full diligence with hands-on load and security testing
- Red flag summary within 48 hours of evidence close
Assessment 03
AI Governance and Security
For boards, risk committees and CISOs. Every model and agent inventoried, permission mapped and tested.
$26k to $78k
3 to 5 weeks · Three tiers
- Inventory and board readiness, including shadow AI discovery
- Full governance and security assessment across the estate
- Full assessment with adversarial testing and a retest included
- Scales with the number of systems in scope, not headcount
Questions about the money
The awkward ones, answered first.
Does the fee change if you find more than expected?
No. The fee is fixed at scope and stays there. If the estate turns out to be materially larger than what we were shown, we tell you before continuing and you decide whether to widen the scope. We do not widen it quietly and invoice for it.
Is the 50% credit a discount on your own build work?
No, and this matters. The credit applies to remediation or build work with any vendor you choose, including one of our competitors. If it only worked with a firm connected to us, we would have a financial reason to recommend a build, and the whole report would be worth less.
Why publish prices when nobody else in this industry does?
Because a quote you have to ask for is a negotiation, and a negotiation over an audit fee is the first place independence starts to leak. Published prices mean the number is the same whoever walks in.
Do you do smaller engagements?
Occasionally, and we will tell you on the call if a smaller piece of work would answer your question. Sometimes the honest answer is that the free readiness check plus a conversation is all you need this quarter.
How do you invoice?
Half on signature of the scope, half on delivery of the report. No hourly billing, no expenses billed separately other than travel for site visits, which is quoted in the scope.
Free · Ten questions · Two minutes
Not sure which tier you need? The readiness check will tell you.
It scores how your systems are run today and points at the assessment and depth that fit. Result on screen straight away, no call required.
Start here
Thirty minutes on a call and you will know which tier fits.
We put the fixed number in writing the same week. If none of them fit, we say so.