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

From $45,000 for a production RAG system, and from $22,000 for a three-week full-stack MVP. Agencies quote $55,000 to $90,000 for a comparable RAG build and $30,000 to $55,000 for a fixed-price MVP. The difference is overhead rather than engineering. There is no account manager and no bench sitting between you and the person writing the code.

Websyncr works with seed to Series A startups in the US and EU, usually five to fifty people, sitting on a document, retrieval, or workflow problem that deserves a proper build. The best fit is a founder or technical lead who wants one senior engineer accountable from end to end. 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 behind them.

Then I tell you the real start date on the call. You go on a short list, and nobody asks you for a deposit to sit in a queue behind someone else. If the timing genuinely does not work for you, I will tell you straight. Care Plans are counted separately, because maintaining a system that already shipped runs alongside a build and never blocks a new one.

Because nobody can put a firm number on a system they have not opened yet, and a wrong number gets corrected later out of your budget. One week of paid discovery buys the architecture, the scope, and a figure I will hold to, 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 we both want the same thing, which is to ship it well and 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 add-on quote before I touch it, so nothing surprising turns up 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 note 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.

The build runs in my environment while it is being written. At handover the whole system - application, vector store, embeddings, keys, and deploy pipeline - moves into your cloud account and runs there from that point on. Your data is never used to train or fine-tune a model, and nothing is shared with any other client. Any working copy on my side is destroyed once handover is signed off, and I will confirm that in writing. If your compliance position needs the build to sit inside your perimeter from day one, that is doable. Raise it in the discovery sprint, because it changes the architecture and the number.

You get the full handover, including 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. Nothing renews on its own, you have to 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 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 I only take two Care Plan clients 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 instead of an async-only relationship.