Starter
- Delivery lanes
- 1 lane
- Monthly capacity
- 80 to 100 points
- Best for
- A focused product stream
- Kickoff
- Initial planning session
- Priority Sync
- Every 1 to 2 weeks, 20 minutes
- Delivery review
- Not included
Pricing
Priced in points. Agreed before work starts.
You buy story points, either as a fixed-bid scope or as a monthly capacity commitment. Here is the whole structure, including the parts most vendors leave in the contract.
One honest unit of work
We estimate every item of work in story points, on a simple 1, 2, 3, 5, 8 scale. Points track functional scope, integration complexity, and test coverage, which are the real drivers of effort. A point means the same thing in month one and month twelve.
Nothing larger than an 8 enters the backlog. If an item estimates higher, we break it down until each piece is something we can commit to with confidence. That decomposition happens before you approve anything.
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Pick your capacity. Change it as you grow.
Growth
- Delivery lanes
- 3 lanes
- Monthly capacity
- 240 to 300 points
- Best for
- A product team's full roadmap
- Kickoff
- Deep planning: architecture and roadmap
- Priority Sync
- Weekly, 30 minutes
- Delivery review
- Monthly, 30 minutes
Scale
- Delivery lanes
- 5 to 7 lanes
- Monthly capacity
- 400 to 700 points
- Best for
- Multi-product portfolios
- Kickoff
- Multi-day onboarding
- Priority Sync
- Weekly plus async report
- Delivery review
- Monthly, 45 minutes
Enterprise
- Delivery lanes
- 10 or more lanes
- Monthly capacity
- From 800 points
- Best for
- Org-wide delivery programs
- Kickoff
- Full onboarding program
- Priority Sync
- Weekly plus async report
- Delivery review
- Bi-weekly
Monthly capacity is quoted as a range because a lane commits at the lower bound and typically delivers above it. The commitment is the floor you are invoiced against, not a forecast we are asking you to trust.
The terms most vendors leave in the contract
A capacity commitment only works if you know what happens to capacity you do not use. Here is our answer.
- Banked points: on a capacity commitment, a month that lands under the commitment banks the difference. A heavier month draws it back down before anything extra is invoiced.
- 90-day expiry: banked points carry forward on a rolling 90 days, are not redeemable for cash, and are forfeited if the engagement ends.
- Retainer balance: on a fixed-bid engagement your deposit is held as a retainer and drawn down against delivered points. Every invoice states the points delivered and the balance remaining.
- Warranty: 30 calendar days on delivered software, running from your written acceptance of the production launch.
- Change orders: any work not in the scope is estimated in points and priced before it starts. There is no penalty for a change order, because changing your mind is product learning, not a breach.
- No metered surprises: you are never billed per AI call, per token, or per seat.
What an invoice shows
What is not priced in points
Governance, risk and compliance work is never story-point priced. Audit and attestation work is scoped as a retainer or a fixed fee, because the deliverable is an opinion rather than a feature.
Fixed-scope specialist deliverables, such as a penetration test or a load-testing engagement, are priced upfront and drawn from your existing lane rather than opening a second billing track.
Bring us the backlog.
In 30 minutes, we will show you what a Pod would ship first and how we would price it.