Production AI systems for seed-stage teams. Shipped in weeks, not quarters.

Here, $25,000 to $45,000 for a production RAG system, and $18,000 to $25,000 for a three-week full-stack MVP. For comparison, agencies quote $55,000 to $90,000 for a production RAG build and $30,000 to $55,000 for a fixed-price MVP. The gap is overhead rather than engineering: there is no account manager, no project manager, and no bench between you and the person writing the code.

Websyncr works with seed to Series A startups in the US and EU, typically five to fifty people, that have a document, retrieval, or workflow problem worth solving properly. The best fit is a founder or technical lead who wants one senior engineer accountable end to end rather than an agency team. It is a poor fit for pre-idea projects with no budget, for staff augmentation billed by the hour, and for anyone who needs a full delivery team rather than a single architect.

Then I tell you the real start date on the call. You go on a short list rather than paying a deposit to sit in a queue behind someone else, and if the timing genuinely does not work for you I will say so instead of stretching to fit. Care Plans are counted separately - maintaining a system that already shipped runs alongside a build, so an active Care Plan never blocks a new one.

Because a fixed quote on a system nobody has examined yet is a guess, and a guess gets corrected later out of your budget. One week of paid discovery buys the architecture, the scope, and a firm number - and the fee comes off the build if you go ahead. If you do not, the spec is yours to take anywhere.

Hourly billing rewards slow work. A fixed price means the scope is already thought through, and the incentive lines up: ship it well, ship it once. Hourly exists only for advisory and small scoped fixes, where a fixed number would just be padding.

It happens. Any change that expands the original scope gets a short, explicit add-on quote before I touch it - never a surprise on the final invoice.

You hold the code and the deploy access from the first milestone, not at handover, so you are never carrying an invoice with nothing to show for it. If we stop mid-build for any reason, you keep everything already paid for, plus a written handover of exactly where the work stands and what comes next. I would rather pass on a clean state than defend a balance.

Yes, always, before any project details change hands. Most of my independent client work is confidential for exactly this reason.

You get the full handover - code, docs, deploy access. If you want ongoing work, we scope it as its own fixed-price engagement, or you move onto the AI Systems Care Plan for monitoring and maintenance. Neither is automatic and neither is assumed: nothing renews unless you ask for it.

Yes. The Websyncr AI Systems Care Plan runs $3,500 to $6,000 per month and covers monitoring, evaluation, prompt and retrieval tuning, dependency and model upgrades, and a guaranteed response window when something breaks. It exists because an LLM system is not a set-and-forget asset: models get deprecated, prompts drift, and retrieval quality decays as the corpus grows. There is a three-month minimum and thirty days notice to cancel after that, and only two Care Plan clients are taken at a time so the response window stays real.

Gurugram, India. I keep flexible hours to overlap with US, UK, and AU teams, so most clients get real-time collaboration, not async-only.