What does an engagement actually cost?
A Foundry Sprint is $9,500 to $15,000 fixed. A production build runs $40,000 to $150,000 depending on integration surface and evaluation burden. Ongoing operations retainers are $2,500 to $8,000 per month. We publish these because a discovery call should be about your problem, not about extracting your budget.
Do you train your own models or use existing ones?
Whichever the measurements support. Most production value comes from retrieval, structured outputs, and careful evaluation around a strong existing model. Fine tuning earns its place when the task is narrow, repetitive, and well represented in your data. We show you the comparison rather than asking you to trust the choice.
Where does our data go?
Into your cloud account by default. We build in infrastructure you own, so your records stay under your contracts, your retention policy, and your auditors. If a hosted model is part of the design, we tell you exactly what leaves your boundary and what the provider's retention terms are before you approve it.
Who owns what you build?
You do. Source code, trained weights, evaluation suites, and documentation transfer to you, with no license back to us and no dependency on our hosting. If you fire us the week after launch, the system keeps running.
What happens if the model does not work well enough?
That is precisely what the sprint is for, and it is why we run baselines before quoting a build. If the evidence says the accuracy will not clear your bar, we recommend against building and you have spent a sprint fee rather than a build budget. If a build is already underway and a component underperforms, the evaluation gates catch it before your users do.
How involved does our team need to be?
Less than you would expect and more than you would like. Realistically: a decision maker for about an hour a week, and someone who genuinely understands the data and the workflow for a few hours a week during discovery and integration. Projects fail without that second person.
Do you work remotely?
Yes, and we work on site when the problem is physical. Inspection, line vision, and anything involving equipment usually needs someone standing in front of it at least once. We are based in Green, Ohio.
How quickly can you start?
We hold one build and one sprint at a time, deliberately, because attention is what makes these systems work. That means there is sometimes a wait. Ask and we will tell you the real date rather than the convenient one.