AI agents · Cost
What an AI agent costs comes down to three parts: a one-time setup for each workflow, a fixed monthly care fee that keeps it working, and model usage you pay directly to the provider. You get the exact figure after a Discovery.
Discovery is a fixed fee, credited to your first months of monthly care
Cost structure
An AI agent is priced per workflow in three parts: a one-time setup, monthly care, and language-model usage that you pay the provider directly. Before all three comes the Discovery, which produces the estimate.
Pricing
Billing by the hour is unpredictable for you and penalises efficient work. A fixed price per workflow gives you a known figure for a defined result, and every path starts with a Discovery.
Start here
A Discovery of one workflow: we map it, measure it, design the agent and estimate the return on investment.
Credited toward your first months of monthly care
Start with a DiscoveryFixed fee, agreed up front in a written proposal
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1 workflow
A business handing one daily workflow to an agent, such as quotes, invoices or follow-ups
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2–3 workflows + ERP
A business with several related workflows that needs the agent to work with its ERP and a knowledge base
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Scoped per site
A plant with several lines that wants agents between the floor, quality, maintenance and the ERP, in phases
Cost drivers
Eight factors account for most of the difference between one workflow and another. Some of them are your choice, and that's how you bring the cost down.
Model usage
It depends on how many tasks there are each month and how large the documents in each task are. The volume is estimated in Discovery, before you start.
Each task the agent runs sends text and documents to the model and gets an answer back, and the provider bills by volume. So the monthly cost depends on two things: how many tasks there are each month, and how large each document is.
Simple tasks, like sorting an email or extracting lines from an invoice, can run on small, inexpensive models. Complex tasks, like reading a drawing, get a stronger model. The model is chosen per task for the best price-performance.
The charges go straight to your own account with the provider, with no mark-up from us, and you see every charge. Discovery estimates the expected usage, so there are no surprises. With a local model on your own servers there's no usage billing; the cost is hardware instead.
What you get back
More capacity and more speed, not fewer people: quotes out the same day, fewer forgotten follow-ups and less paperwork for quality and maintenance. Two illustrative scenarios:
Illustrative example
Small CNC machine shop
Every request for a quote means reading a drawing, finding similar jobs and calculating, usually in the evening. A slow reply loses the job.
The aim: Quotes go out the same day instead of after several days, and no price is sent without approval
Typical plan: Growth
Illustrative example
Plant with several production lines
Non-conformance reports get written late or incomplete, from a note or a phone photo. Quality staff spend their time on paperwork instead of the problem.
The aim: Less paperwork for quality and maintenance, and NCRs opened on time and complete
Typical plan: Industrial
Illustrative scenarios based on typical processes, not client projects.
Comparison
A qualitative comparison, with no prices: what you pay for, who maintains it, and when each option fits.
An agent doesn't replace your team. It gives them time back, so quotes go out faster and fewer things get missed. In a plant the work is phased, and each phase should pay back before the next. Phased AI implementation in a plant
Getting an estimate
Three steps, and at the end a written figure for your workflow.
At the end of the Discovery you get an ROI estimate and a fixed quote for setup and monthly care. If you continue, the Discovery fee is credited toward your first months of monthly care. One cost driver worth checking early is the ERP connection: connecting an AI agent to Priority and your ERP
Discovery
A fixed-fee, fixed-scope first step: one process, one report you can act on, and the fee is credited toward your first months of monthly care if you continue.
Discovery is a fixed fee, credited to your first months of monthly care
The cost has three parts: a one-time setup per workflow, a fixed monthly care fee, and model usage you pay directly to the provider. You get the exact figure for your workflow in writing after a Discovery, and the Discovery fee is credited toward your first months of monthly care.
Because two businesses with "the same" workflow differ in systems, data and approval flow, and those differences set the cost. Instead of a generic price list, every workflow gets a fixed price in writing after the Discovery, before any build work.
Hosting and running the agent, ongoing monitoring and the action log, prompt and model updates, small changes to the workflow, and a monthly report: tasks done, time saved and errors caught at approval. Larger changes are quoted up front, before any work on them.
For transparency: you see every charge, there's no mark-up from us, and the data agreement is between you and the model provider. The account settings, including usage caps, stay under your control.
Yes, and that's the path we recommend. Each workflow is priced separately, and each phase should pay back before the next one starts. The decision on the next workflow is made from the monthly report, and if you decide it isn't for you, you can cancel the monthly plan any time with one month's notice, with no minimum period.
If you go ahead with setup, the Discovery fee is credited toward your first months of monthly care, so those first months are covered by what you've already paid. The Discovery fee itself is agreed up front, in a written proposal.
For generic tasks, usually the off-the-shelf tool. A custom agent pays off when it works on your own data, documents and systems, in a workflow that repeats every week. The Discovery tells you which fits, even if the answer is a ready-made tool.
Tell us about one workflow. An engineer will reply with a written Discovery proposal, which ends with a fixed price for setup and monthly care.
Usually a reply within 3 working hours, by email or phone