Transparent, fixed pricing — no surprises
Business Process Automation Pricing
Two ways to work with us — buy a finished system outright, or embed a dedicated developer in your team. You see the full cost before anything starts.
✓No hidden fees
✓Scope agreed up front
✓Cancel monthly hires anytime
Buy outright
Fixed-Cost Systems
A complete, deployed automation — scoped, built, and handed over for one agreed price. Perfect when you know the job and want it done without a meter running.
✓Discovery, build, and deployment in one fixed price
✓Source code and documentation handed to you
✓Monitoring, error retries, and alerting included
✓30 days of post-launch support, standard
✓Retraining available on request — only if you need it after handoff
Automation Systems
starting at$400
per system · scope-dependent
Recently shipped at this price
IV
Invoice Validation System
Workflow automation
$900
AB
AI Appointment Booking Bot
Chatbot development
$1,200
Sg
Data Scraper + Export
Custom scripting
$650
WR
Weekly Reporting Automation
Workflow automation
$1,400
Option 01 · Buy outright
Pricing by category
Not sure where your project lands? Here's what each type of automation typically costs — same fixed-price, scope-agreed-up-front model.
Custom Scripting & Automation
Scripts that do one job well — exporters, parsers, file and data tasks.
from$400
$400 – $900 · scope-dependent
✓Data parsing, transforms, and exports
✓Scheduled jobs and file automations
✓One clean script, documented and handed over
Workflow Automation
Connect your tools and let the busywork run itself.
from$600
$600 – $1,400 · scope-dependent
✓Multi-step flows across your apps
✓Validation, reporting, and alerting
✓Error retries and monitoring included
AI Chatbot Development
Conversational bots that book, answer, and qualify — on your channels.
from$900
$900 – $2,000 · scope-dependent
✓Booking, FAQ, and lead-qualifying bots
✓Trained on your content and tone
✓Web, WhatsApp, or Slack deployment
★ Most advanced
AI Agent Development
Autonomous agents that reason, decide, and act across multiple steps.
from$1,500
$1,500 – $3,500 · scope-dependent
✓Multi-step reasoning and tool use
✓Integrates with your systems and data
✓Human-in-the-loop controls and guardrails
Option 02 · Hire a developer
Engagement Models
Embed a dedicated developer in your team. Commit monthly and pay 20% less than the hourly rate — same engineer, same standards.
Entry tier
Junior Developer
Capable hands for well-defined, supervised build work.
$1,250–$1,875Save 20%
$1,000–$1,500/month
per developer · billed monthly
Executes scoped tickets cleanly
Daily written progress logs
Works under a lead's review
Mid tier
Associate Developer
Self-directed delivery on real features, end to end.
$1,875–$3,125Save 20%
$1,500–$2,500/month
per developer · billed monthly
Owns features from spec to ship
Drives its own agenda in meetings
Tested, review-ready pull requests
★ Most teams choose this
Top tier
Senior Developer
Owns the architecture and sets the standard for the build.
$3,125–$4,375Save 20%
$2,500–$3,500/month
per developer · billed monthly
Owns system architecture and tradeoffs
Mentors and raises the whole team
Defines process, not just follows it
How the tiers compare
Feel the difference, line by line.
The same ten standards, measured across every tier — so you can see exactly where the gap is, and what you're paying for.
10 standards we measure
Junior
$1,000–$1,500 /mo
Associate
$1,500–$2,500 /mo
Senior
$2,500–$3,500 /mo
Code quality
How production-ready the output is
Clean, reviewed
Robust, tested
Production-grade
Deadline delivery
Hitting committed dates
With guidance
Reliable
Ahead, proactive
Communication
Clarity and cadence of updates
Responsive
Clear & regular
Stakeholder-fluent
Architecture ownership
Designing the system, not just coding it
Follows specs
Shapes modules
Owns the system
Empowerment
Acting without hand-holding
Eager, learning
Self-directed
Drives decisions
Meeting standards
Value brought to the room
Prepared
Drives agenda
Leads the room
Basetag reporting
Quality and depth of progress reporting
Daily logs
Structured
Predictive
Deep work
Sustained focus on hard problems
Focused blocks
Sustained
Uninterrupted
Git ethics
Commit hygiene and review discipline
Clean commits
Disciplined PRs
Exemplary, mentors
PDLC adherence
Product development lifecycle rigor
Follows process
Improves process
Defines process
Every tier ships with the same delivery discipline — only the depth changes.
Bars indicate relative depth of expertise, not a fixed score. Every developer is a real, named hire — interviewed and vetted.
Still deciding?
Two minutes of scoping tells you exactly which option is yours.
Choose fixed-cost when
You know the job
There's a specific, bounded automation you want built and handed over. One price, one system, no ongoing commitment.
Choose a developer when
The work keeps coming
You have an evolving roadmap of automations and integrations. Embed a dedicated engineer and commit monthly to save 20%.
No hidden fees · scope agreed before any work begins · cancel monthly hires anytime
A note from the founder
Hey, Traveler 👋
Most ops teams don't have a hiring problem.
They have a manual-steps problem.
I'm Zee, founder of CogWork Labs. We fix that with AI agents and workflows engineered for real work — not slide-deck demos.
Zee
Founder, CogWork Labs
70+
engineers
3,000+
systems shipped
What we build
01
Run on real production load, not demo conditions.
02
Plug into your CRMs, inboxes, and spreadsheets — with retries, audit trails, and monitoring built in.
03
Free your team to focus on growth, not upkeep.