Retainers

Keep your production AI running.

Monthly engineering retainers for teams with deployed AI — from Managed Agent Operations to a Fractional Head of AI Engineering. Cancel any time, no lock-in.

Pricing

Plans that scale with your team.

Three senior-led retainers, USD-priced and month-to-month, each with a defined response SLA.

Managed Agent Operations
From $6K/mo

Monthly, cancel any time

Keep your agents and context layer current — new skills, model upgrades, evals, and quality monitoring, every month.

  • Context-layer + skills updates
  • New-model evaluation
  • Eval + regression runs
  • New integrations
  • Quality + cost monitoring
  • Monthly review
Start Managed Agent Operations
Embedded AI Engineering PodMost hands-on
From $20K/mo

Monthly, cancel any time

A senior AI engineer embedded in your team, shipping agentic systems in your repo.

  • Embedded senior capacity
  • Ships in your repo
  • Joins your Slack / Linear / standups
  • Quarterly review
Start an Embedded Pod
Fractional Head of AI Engineering
From $30K/mo

Monthly, cancel any time

Senior leadership for your AI engineering — strategy, architecture, and team mentoring.

  • AI strategy + roadmap
  • Architecture reviews + sign-off
  • Team mentoring + hiring
  • Executive presence
  • Monthly strategy memo
Start Fractional Head of AI
CompareManaged OpsEmbedded PodFractional Head
Starting priceFrom $6K/moFrom $20K/moFrom $30K/mo
CommitmentMonth-to-monthMonth-to-monthMonth-to-month
What you getOngoing agent operationsA senior engineer embeddedSenior AI-eng leadership
Best forKeeping deployed agents currentExtending engineering capacityStrategy, architecture & mentoring
How it works

How retainers work

01

Monthly rhythm

A standing monthly review plus continuous work — no waiting for the next statement of work.

02

Response expectations

A defined response and incident SLA per tier, so production issues get acknowledged fast.

03

Roadmap review

Regular roadmap and architecture reviews keep the AI system current as models and tools move.

FAQ

Questions, answered

Cancellation, model deprecation, and rolling a build into a retainer. Anything else, just ask.

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