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Fixed monthly, or fixed scope. Never hourly.

Four ways to buy. Staffing is billed per calendar month with a three-month minimum; agent and custom work is quoted per milestone after a paid discovery.

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MONTHLY COST, COMPAREDPUBLISHED
A third of a US hire
A senior US hire$180k+ / yr
Talent marketplace$17k–$35k / mo
Dataspecc senior$4,000 / mo

US hire shown per month, fully loaded · 5 options compared below

Min. 3 months · 30 days noticeOne invoice
Staffing models

Per calendar month, minimum three.

Includes recruitment, replacement cover, equipment and payroll. Switch models mid-engagement with 30 days' notice.

Dedicated engineerMOST CHOSEN

One embedded engineer inside your existing team and process.

$3,000/mo
Full-stack 1–2 yrs from $3,000 · senior 2–4 yrs $4,000 · min. 3 months
  • One full-stack, senior full-stack, data or platform engineer
  • Full-time on your board and standups
  • 4+ hours daily timezone overlap
  • You interview and approve every hire
  • Free replacement in the first two weeks
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AI / ML specialist

An engineer whose daily work is agents, retrieval and evals.

$3,500/mo
Full-time, minimum 3 months
  • Agents, RAG, eval and serving infrastructure
  • Writes the eval suite, not just the prompt
  • Has shipped model-driven features to production
  • Reviews your existing AI code on arrival
  • Free replacement in the first two weeks
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Managed team

A delivery unit with a PM accountable for shipping the scope.

$10,000/mo
3 people incl. delivery PM, scales to 8
  • Senior engineers plus a delivery PM
  • Roadmap, sprint cadence and demos
  • Written Friday status and burn-up
  • QA and release management included
  • Single point of accountability
Scope a team
Delivery models

Quoted per milestone, after a paid discovery.

Agent and custom work is scoped before it is priced, so the number you get is one we can hold to.

AI StarterAI agents · 2–3 weeks
One well-defined workflow automated end to end, with an eval and a rollback rule. The front door.$5,000 fixedStart small
Workflow discoveryAI agents · 2 weeks
Our in-house software maps your live workflows and returns a ranked map of what to automate. Credited against the build.$2,000 fixedStart discovery
Agent implementationAI agents · per workflow set
Build and deploy the approved workflows, with evals, human-in-the-loop and an audit trail.$5k–$10kGet a quote
Run and improveAI agents · retainer
We operate and extend the agents after launch, reviewing hours returned monthly.From $2,500/moDiscuss
Custom AI product buildCustom software · milestones
A whole product end to end: discovery, build, AI layer, hardening and handover.From $20kScope a build
The alternatives

What else you are probably considering.

Rates are 2026 third-party estimates — bands for comparison, not quotes.

Option
Typical rate
The trade-off
A senior US hireIn-house, full-time
$180k+ / yr
Four months of searching, plus recruiting fees and equipment, before the first commit.
Talent marketplacesTuring, Toptal, Lemon.io
Est. $17k–$35k / mo
No published rate card and no delivery accountability — you get a resume, not an outcome.
Premium AI consultanciesBCG X, Tribe AI and similar
Enterprise, custom
Priced and paced for the Fortune 500, and strategy-heavy before anything ships.
SMB automation shopsn8n / Zapier implementers
$1.5k–$5k per project
No engineering depth. Breaks at the first real integration — usually the one that matters.
DataspeccVetted bench, named owner
From $3,000 / mo, published
Minimum three months on staffing, and we turn down work our bench cannot staff properly.
Included in every price
  • Recruitment, vetting and technical interviewing
  • Equipment, payroll, compliance and local employment
  • Replacement cover if the fit is wrong in the first two weeks
  • Account management and quarterly performance review
  • A delivery PM on every managed team and custom build
Things we don’t charge for
  • Recruitment or placement fees
  • Overtime, or hourly billing of any kind
  • Onboarding or ramp-up weeks
  • Exit fees when you give 30 days notice
  • Licence-back on anything we build for you
FAQ

Questions we get on the first call.

Why is a senior developer $4k and not $2k?Because a rate far under the market band confirms a buyer’s worst suspicion. $4,000 a month is roughly $23 an hour — mid-band for a vetted senior with two to four years in our region, a fraction of a marketplace rate and about a quarter of a US hire. A full-stack engineer with one to two years starts at $3,000. A $2k rate buys a shared junior on three accounts.
Should we just build it in-house with an AI coding tool?The research says otherwise: vendor-partnered or purchased AI reaches production roughly twice as often as internally built AI, about 67% against 33%. That is not our number, which is why it is worth reading.
Who owns what we build?You do, from the first commit. Code lives in your organisation, infrastructure in your cloud account, with a documented handover whenever you want it.
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  • One invoice: recruitment, equipment and payroll included
  • 30 days notice, no exit fee
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