Bring us your spec. Get a fixed price.
We capture your rules in a Rulebook: every table, relationship, permission and calculation, in one place you can browse and edit. Your database, security, admin portal and apps derive from it. Five packages, one fixed price each, and most projects need no deposit. We build it, you look at it, and you pay only if you like it.
How every fixed bid works
- 01
Send your spec
A doc, a spreadsheet, a deck, or a page of notes. Whatever you already have.
- 02
We build the Rulebook
Every table, field, role and rule, written once in plain English and in a form a machine can read. You can browse it before anything is compiled.
- 03
You check it, then decide
Read it, try your edge cases, and confirm it is the way you run the business. Then pick what to compile it into.
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Same number, every time.
Every quote you have had for your project was a range with an asterisk. Here is a fixed number instead. We build the working version of your application, you look at it, you pay only if you like it, and then the repository is yours to build on.
Packages
Start with the Rulebook.
Pay for what we compile it into.
5 packages. Each one includes everything above it. Start anywhere and move down later without redoing anything.
Rulebook
$0
No charge.
Your entire business, modelled and open to inspection.
Includes
- ✓Your Platform Rules + Inferences
- ✓With Facts + Calculated Fields
- ✓What you track, and how it all connects
- ✓Plain-language documentation
- ✓Full Rulebook Editor in your Browser
- ✓Editable & Downloadable as a spreadsheet
- ✓With realistic sample data for every rule
- ✓Full provenance for every Value
- ✓Natively sharable with your team
- –No generated repository and no deployable implementation — those come with a paid package.
Backend
$1k
Fixed price. Pay only if you like it.
A developer handoff: the model as real infrastructure.
Everything in Rulebook, plus
- ✓Postgres or SQL Server Backend DB
- ✓DB enforced rules, not app code
- ✓Secure sign-in for your people
- ✓Roles that match how your organization works
- ✓Control who can view, add, change and delete
- ✓Configured and ready to go live
- ✓Errors handled gracefully and surfaced
- ✓Passwords and keys handled safely
Internal App
Most projects$5k
Fixed price. Pay only if you like it.
Working software your organization can actually run a department on.
Everything in Backend, plus
- ✓Starter Mobile App
- ✓Screens built for the actual jobs people do
- ✓Automated tests tied to that definition
- ✓Tests proving the build matches the rules
- ✓A preview of the screens your rules describe
- ✓Each role gets its own tailored view of the data
- ✓Walkthroughs to get your team started
Production App
$10k
Fixed price. Pay only if you like it.
Software the people doing the work depend on to do their jobs.
Everything in Internal App, plus
- ✓Starter Admin Portal
- ✓Documentation for running it day to day
- ✓Manage your team and who belongs where
- ✓Menus and screens organized around the work
- ✓A record of who changed what, and when
- ✓Separate test and live environments
Enterprise
$25k
Fixed price. Pay only if you like it.
Everything a serious organization expects before adopting a system of record.
Everything in Production App, plus
- ✓Staff sign in with your company login (SSO)
- ✓Fine grained control over who sees what
- ✓People only see the records they should (Row Level Security)
- ✓A complete, tamper-evident audit trail
- ✓Keep and delete data by policy
- ✓Approval steps on the changes that matter
- ✓Automated, tested releases (CI/CD)
- ✓Connect it to your other systems
- ✓Large data-migration tooling
- ✓Native iOS and Android Projects
Fixed prices. You pay for the repo, only if you like what you see. .
What a package actually is
Each package is a repository.
Every package is a git repository, pre-loaded with a specific set of Effortless tools and a license. Drop in a rulebook, run effortless build, and you get plain-language documentation, conformance tests and a working system out of the box. Bigger repositories carry more tools, and that tool count is what the price is paying for.
Why the table count does not change the price
Once a project is inside a given repository tier, whether the rulebook has 10 tables or 1,000 has very little effect on what it costs us to deliver. The work is a build, not a construction project, so scope does not meter the way hours do.
The repository is yours
You are not renting access to a platform. You buy the repository and build on it, with the tools and the license inside it. The same engine that builds a $25k enterprise system builds the free one.
More ways to work with us
Go further when you're ready.
Training
Hands-on sessions for you or your team, from a 2-hour introduction to a full team onboarding. The session fee converts to store credit.
Advanced tools
Some tools go deeper than others, like our Postgres generator: a complete backend with row-level security, derived from your rulebook. Your store credit applies to advanced tools.
We build it for you
Want us to build your system? We build it, and if we maintain it for you, the commercial license is part of that maintenance.