Pricing
Priced like insurance on capital at risk
You're not buying a document; you're buying management certainty, an engineering verdict, a risk map, and a plan of action. Pricing is fixed and defined up front, scoped to the complexity and risk of your system: number of data sources, depth of permissions, number of agents, presence of write actions, data sensitivity, regulatory environment, and usage scale. Figures below are shown in USD ($); get in touch for a quote in your preferred currency.
The QAi family
Six engagements, one standard
Pre-Flight AI Check
Before you sign an AI project, a vendor contract, or a Statement of Work.
Deliverables
- Problem Fit review: does the proposed solution actually match the business outcome
- SOW / proposal review against DNLA's five-layer standard
- Architecture risk scan of the proposed design
- An independent TCO estimate
$5,000 – $8,000
Architecture Due Diligence
A startup preparing to raise, an investor before committing capital, or a beta product before it scales.
Deliverables
- Independent architecture opinion
- Scale-risk assessment
- Technical debt mapping
- Unit economics review
$8,000 – $15,000
Health Check
A system already in production, or close to it, showing signs of failure, rising cost, or eroding trust.
Deliverables
- A full scorecard across all 8 dimensions
- Money-at-risk quantification
- Root-cause findings
- A Healthy / Tune / Fix / Rebuild / Kill verdict
$10,000 – $16,000
Executive Rescue Sprint
An urgent situation: the system is failing, customers are complaining, costs are spiking, and leadership needs a fast, defensible call.
Deliverables
- Rapid triage
- Initial root-cause identification
- Risk assessment
- A stop / stabilize recommendation
$13,000 – $23,000
Verification Badge
Companies preparing to raise, get acquired, or clear enterprise procurement, who want independent verification in hand before the conversation starts.
Deliverables
- A Technology Confidence Score
- An AI Asset Value assessment
- A Key Risks register
- Required Conditions to earn the badge
Scoped per engagement. Get in touch.
Managed Governance
After an initial audit, when you want ongoing monitoring of quality, cost, and risk instead of a one-time snapshot.
Deliverables
- Monthly evals
- Canary questions
- Cost & quality reporting
- Drift review
$2,500 – $8,000 / month
Beyond QAi
The rest of the DNLA suite
Scoped per engagement: each depends heavily on system count, data sensitivity, and the regulatory bar you need to clear.
Red Team Lab
An adversarial testing lab that deliberately tries to break your AI system before someone else does.
Custom scope. Get in touch.
Incident Review
An independent investigation when an AI system causes harm, a wrong decision, or an operational incident.
Custom scope. Get in touch.
Impact Assessment
In devA structured AI Impact Assessment before deployment, or after a significant change.
Custom scope. Get in touch.
Governance Readiness
Preparation for an AI management system aligned to ISO/IEC 42001, the NIST AI RMF, and the EU AI Act.
Custom scope. Get in touch.
Benchmark Lab
A lab that builds a benchmark custom to your system, instead of testing on random questions or gut feel.
Custom scope. Get in touch.
Registry
In devA central registry of every AI system running inside your organization.
Custom scope. Get in touch.
How we price
Principles behind the number
Priced on money at risk, not hours
The basis is the capital already invested or about to be, future cloud costs, the cost of a wrong business call, and the cost of continuing in the wrong direction.
Fixed and defined up front
You know the scope, the cost, the deliverables, and the timeline before you commit. Certainty in the sales process reflects the certainty the product itself delivers.
Diagnosis stays independent of delivery
Follow-on work, if any, is scoped separately and transparently, with a clear change of role from auditor to advisor or delivery oversight.
A Kill verdict is a valid, priced outcome
The audit itself is a product with standalone value, not a funnel into a build. Recommending you stop doesn't compromise the engagement.
Not sure which package fits?
A short intake call is enough to point you at the right scope.