A custom managed AI solution. Not software.

We design, build, and operate AI workforces for small teams. You reduce headcount; we handle the rest. Custom tools, public builds, code you own.

How we work

Three steps. No pitch deck.

A short call, a public build, and a clean handoff. We're a small studio; the way we work has to fit our size and yours.

Listen.

30-minute call. We hear the problem, name the constraints, and tell you whether we can help. No pitch deck, no upsell.

Build in public.

We narrate the build as it happens — what we tried, what failed, what shipped. You see the work before you trust it.

Ship + own.

You get the code, the deployment, and the documentation. No vendor lock-in. If you need us to maintain it, we negotiate that separately.

Compared to what

Compare us to a fractional engineer who builds and runs your tools.

Before comparing us to a freelance dev or a SaaS subscription, compare us to a fractional engineer who builds and runs your tools full-time.

  • vs. a freelance developerThey build and leave. We build, narrate publicly, and stay reachable for the lifecycle.
  • vs. a SaaS subscriptionYou rent, then re-rent, forever. We ship code you own. If you'd rather we keep operating it for you, that's a separate conversation.
  • vs. a fractional CTOTypically advisory. We're hands-on-the-keyboard.

The math we want you to do: what would a part-time embedded operator cost you for the next 6 months? Compare that to what we charge to ship the same outcome and walk away — or stay, if that's what you want.

What we won't build

The brand starts here.

There are kinds of work we don't take. Naming them up front saves everybody time.

Anything that puts a human in someone else's crosshairs.
Get-rich-quick schemes that depend on someone else losing money.
Surveillance products. Doxxing-adjacent products. Anything weaponizable against a class of people.
Subscription products with no real product underneath.
Pricing

Plain numbers. No gates.

Anchored to what the work actually costs us, with the kind of small-studio math that fits a 1- to 6-week engagement.

Floor
Small focused builds, 1–2 weeks of work.
From $1,500
Typical engagement
2–6 weeks. Includes deployment and handoff.
$3,500 – $8,500
Above $10K
Scoped engagement with the team's principal direct.
By scope
Hourly anchor
Above mid-market practitioner rates, below specialist-firm rates.
$225 / hr
Monthly retainer
Ongoing maintenance and light feature work.
$2,500 / mo
Get in touch

Tell us your problem.

Email is the front door. We read everything, reply within a few business days, and book a 30-minute call if there's a fit.

Send a note.

Tell us what's broken, what you've tried, and what a good outcome looks like. We'll come back with whether we can help and what it'd take.

hello@relicops.com