Structured by AI vs hiring an agency
A team builds an agreed scope, hands it over, and invoices. Strong for a single well-defined build with a real deadline.
Serious capacity on a defined brief. For a one-off with a hard launch date and a scope that genuinely will not change — a rebrand, a marketing site, a migration — an agency can move faster than anyone.
The engagement ends. From handover day the software decays, nobody owns it, and every change is re-quoted. Businesses that need software continuously end up buying the same engagement again every eighteen months.
Typical $25–60k for a mid-size build over roughly four months. Ongoing support, where offered, is usually a separate monthly fee. Market range, not a figure from our clients.
To be fair: For one large, well-defined build with a fixed deadline and real design ambition, a good agency will beat us on raw throughput and on craft. We are built for the years after that build, which is the part they are not selling you.
See the platform you'd be starting from
This is the difference the comparison above keeps coming back to: with hiring an agency, week one starts from nothing. Here it starts from software that is already running.