No public rate card pretends to know your scope. But you shouldn't have to book a call just to learn how an agency charges. Here's exactly how Finyki prices, what moves the number, and what you walk away owning.
Most AI automation agencies bill hourly, fixed-scope, or on retainer. We do the last two — because an open-ended hourly meter is bad for both of us.
For larger or fuzzy problems: a short, paid sprint where we map the workflow, quantify the hours it's eating, and hand back an architecture plus a fixed quote for the build. De-risks everything before you commit.
The first agent or workflow, priced as a fixed project — you approve the number before we start. Usually live in 2–3 weeks, shipped into your stack, documented, and handed to your team to own. A first production system is typically SGD 20k–80k.
After the first win, most teams move to a monthly retainer: a rolling roadmap of automations, agents, and improvements, scoped to the work each month — typically SGD 5k–20k depending on volume. Cancel-friendly — it earns its keep or it ends.
Two builds that sound identical can price very differently. Here's what actually swings the quote — so you can ballpark your own before we ever talk.
30 minutes. We pressure-test the use case and tell you honestly whether it's worth building — and whether we're the right studio for it.
A one-page scope with a single fixed price. No hourly estimates that balloon. You approve before anything is built.
We build in your stack, shadow-run against the manual process, and go live once the outputs hold up.
Prompts, evals, code, runbooks, and access transferred. You own it. Continue solo, or move to a retainer.
The reason "what does it cost?" is the wrong question on its own: a cheap build you can't own gets expensive fast. Everything we ship is yours.
We're not SaaS. There's no per-user fee flowing to Finyki forever. You pay for the build (and your own model/API and tooling bills) — that's it.
It lives in your cloud, your accounts, your data perimeter. Sovereignty and PDPA stay intact; nothing critical is trapped on our side.
Documented prompts, evals, architecture, and runbooks — so your people can debug and grow it at 2am without us on the phone.
It depends on scope, but credible agencies generally work one of three ways: hourly / time-and-materials, fixed-scope projects, or monthly retainers. Finyki prices most engagements as fixed-scope builds, so you approve the number before any work starts. A first production system is typically SGD 20k–80k, with monthly operate-and-improve retainers from SGD 5k–20k depending on volume and eval complexity. We scope before we quote — book a scoping call for a fixed number.
Fixed price for defined builds — you approve the scope and the number up front, with no open-ended hourly meter. Iterative and ongoing work runs on a monthly retainer instead of billable hours.
We focus on builds substantial enough to pay for themselves — a first production system typically starts around SGD 20k. If your need is smaller than that, we'll say so and point you to a lighter option rather than take the work.
Yes. Once the first build ships, most clients move to a monthly build partnership — typically SGD 5k–20k per month depending on volume and eval complexity — for a rolling roadmap of automations and agents.
No. We build on your own infrastructure and hand over the prompts, evals, and code — you own it outright, with no per-seat SaaS lock-in to us. You still pay your own model/API and tooling bills directly.
A first workflow or agent is usually live in 2–3 weeks, then handed to your team to own and extend.
Yes. For larger or uncertain scopes we can start with a short, paid scoping sprint that de-risks the build and produces a fixed quote for the full engagement.
Send us the one process eating your team's hours. You'll get an honest read on whether it's worth building — and a fixed quote if it is. No deck theatre.