Cloud and AI consulting pricing
Six ways to work with Net Ninjas, from a one-off review to a standing seat at the table. Every one of them starts with an honest map of what you have.
Cloud Cost & Architecture Review
We map your infrastructure, security, scalability, and cloud spend as one system. The result is a ranked roadmap where the next step is easy to see. It's where most engagements start.
€2,500
Book a callWho it's for
Teams on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud whose bill, setup, or security posture grew faster than anyone planned. It also fits teams that want an independent review before a fundraise, an enterprise deal, or a migration.
What's included
- An inventory of what you run, what it costs, and what depends on what
- An architecture review covering scalability, reliability, and security, including the questions an enterprise customer's questionnaire will ask
- A line-by-line cost review: waste, right-sizing, and the credits and committed-use discounts nobody has claimed yet
- A written roadmap ranked by risk, savings, and effort, with the fixes in the order I'd do them
- A readout with your engineers and founders to walk through it
What sets the price
Nothing: it's a fixed price, so you know the cost of the first step before we talk scope. If you go ahead with a Cloud Migration & Platform Engineering project within 30 days, the fee comes off its price.
Cloud Migration & Platform Engineering
We move you onto AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud in rehearsed waves, or rebuild the platform you already run so it's reproducible and observable. Your team runs it when I leave.
€10,000 to €35,000
Book a callWho it's for
Teams on Heroku, a single server, on-premises hardware, or a cloud setup they've outgrown. It also fits teams whose platform is fragile, undocumented, or understood by one person, and teams that need their data in an EU region or clean foundations before a fundraise or an enterprise deal.
What's included
- A Cloud Cost & Architecture Review first: what you run, what depends on what, a target architecture, and a dated plan with a fixed price
- A landing zone, identity, and networking in an EU region, all in Terraform your team owns
- Migration in waves, each with a rehearsal and a rollback path we've actually tried
- CI/CD and GitOps delivery, right-sized compute, and monitoring and alerting a small team can live with
- Disaster recovery we've run for real, and runbooks for the platform
- Support through cutover and a handover to your engineers
What sets the price
The size of the estate sets it, in three fixed packages. A single application (one app off Heroku or a single server, with up to three services and one database) is €10,000. A multi-account landing zone with four to fifteen workloads moved in waves is €22,500. An enterprise estate (on-premises hardware, several clouds, or a compliance requirement) is €35,000. Platform engineering on a cloud you already run uses the same packages: one product is a single application, several teams or clusters are multi-account or enterprise. The €2,500 Cloud Cost & Architecture Review comes first, and its fee comes off the price if you go ahead within 30 days.
Cloud Security Posture & Hardening
We map every way into your cloud accounts, rank the gaps by what an attacker reaches first, and close the ones that matter, in code, with your team.
€5,000 to €9,000
Book a callWho it's for
Teams on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud whose security posture is whatever history left behind: long-lived keys, open storage, unread logs. It also fits teams facing an enterprise security questionnaire, a SOC 2 or ISO 27001 audit, or technical due diligence.
What's included
- An inventory of accounts, identities, network edges, and data stores, and who can reach what
- A posture assessment against the CIS benchmark and the provider's security guidance, with findings ranked by exposure and effort
- Remediation of the ranked findings in Terraform alongside your engineers: least-privilege IAM, single sign-on, encryption, storage access, and backups
- Audit logging and managed threat detection in every account, tuned so alerts mean something
- An evidence pack for enterprise questionnaires and audits, and a written list of what to watch next
- A readout with your engineers and founders to walk through it
What sets the price
The number of cloud accounts sets it, in three fixed packages. A single account is €5,000. Two to three accounts are €7,000. Four or more accounts are €9,000.
AI-Built App Security Review
We read the app your AI coding agent wrote the way an attacker would, from the secrets in the repository to the cloud account it runs in. The result is a ranked list of what to fix first, and the fixes too if you want them.
€500 to €3,500
Book a callWho it's for
Founders and small teams who built a web app or API with Claude Code, Cursor, Lovable, Replit, or a similar tool, and are about to put real users, data, or payments behind it. Individual founders can buy it as consumers too. It also fits startups and small businesses that sell installable software in the EU and now carry the Cyber Resilience Act's reporting duty.
What's included
- A check of the code and its history for secrets, hard-coded keys, and tokens
- Authentication and API authorisation, route by route: who can read or change whose data
- Dependencies checked for known vulnerabilities and for packages the model invented
- The CI pipeline and the coding agent's own permissions: what it can read, run, and reach
- The cloud account behind the app: identity, storage access, and logging
- Findings ranked by what an attacker reaches first, each pinned to a file and line, with a readout for your team
What sets the price
How far it goes sets it, in two fixed packages for one application. The review is €500: automated scans, a manual pass over secrets, sign-in, and API authorisation, the top findings ranked, and a thirty-minute readout. The review with remediation is €3,500: the full review above, then the fixes for the ranked findings alongside your team. If you book the remediation package within 30 days of the review, the €500 comes off its price. Both are a code and configuration review, not a penetration test. Businesses pay these prices plus BTW. Consumers pay the same amounts with any BTW included, and have a 14-day right of withdrawal set out in the terms.
AI Implementation Sprint
We pick the one AI workflow, assistant, retrieval system, or automation that matters most. Then I ship it to production with business value we can measure.
€6,000 to €12,000
Book a callWho it's for
Companies that know where a language model could save hours or open up a feature. They want it running in production, not in a demo.
What's included
- Scoping: the one workflow, assistant, retrieval system, or automation that pays back first
- A build on Claude or OpenAI-compatible APIs, hosted in an EU region where your data needs to stay
- Retrieval over your own documents and data where the use case needs it, with citations back to the source
- Guardrails, scoped permissions, and a log of what the system did
- An evaluation set built from real cases, so quality is a number before go-live
- Deployment into your stack and a handover to your team
What sets the price
How far it goes sets it, in two fixed packages. A proof of concept, the one workflow built and evaluated on your data, is €6,000. A production buildout, deployed into your stack with guardrails, logging, and a handover to your team, is €12,000.
Fractional Cloud & AI Advisor
A standing senior lead for architecture reviews, cloud cost, AI strategy, vendor decisions, and the team who will own it all.
€2,000 to €4,000per month
Book a callWho it's for
Founders, startups, scale-ups, and small businesses that need a senior cloud and AI lead part of the time. A full-time hire doesn't make sense yet.
What's included
- A standing slot each month for architecture and security reviews
- Cloud cost monitoring and the changes that keep the bill in line with growth
- AI strategy: what to build, what to buy, and what to leave alone
- Vendor and tooling decisions, backed by having run most of the options in production
- A seat in planning, roadmap, and technical due diligence conversations
- Coaching for the engineers who will own the platform
What sets the price
The monthly deliverables set it, in three fixed packages: €2,000, €3,000, or €4,000 per month. €2,000 covers a regular review cadence and advice on call. €4,000 adds hands-on work alongside your team.
How an engagement runs
1
A short call
Thirty minutes on your current setup, your stage, and what's bothering you about it. I give a straight opinion, whether or not we work together.
2
A one-page proposal
Scope, deliverables, and a price inside the ranges above. We agree on it before any work starts. If the honest answer is that you don't need me yet, the page says so.
3
The work, then the handover
I do the discovery, the planning, and the hands-on work myself. I stay until it runs in production and your team owns it. Production is where improvement starts, so the handover covers what to watch and what comes next.
Something bigger, or not sure which package fits? A short call usually clears that up. What would you want to fix first?
Common questions
- How much does a cloud architecture and cost review cost?
- €2,500, fixed, whatever the size of the estate. It's the entry point for most engagements, and the fee comes off a Cloud Migration & Platform Engineering project if you go ahead within 30 days.
- How much does a cloud security posture review and remediation cost?
- Cloud Security Posture & Hardening is €5,000 for a single account, €7,000 for two to three accounts, and €9,000 for four or more.
- How much does a security review of an app built with AI coding tools cost?
- An AI-Built App Security Review is €500 for the review and €3,500 for the review with remediation, each for one application. If you book the remediation package within 30 days of the review, the €500 comes off its price. It's a code and configuration review, not a penetration test.
- How much does it cost to ship an AI feature to production?
- An AI Implementation Sprint is €6,000 for a proof of concept and €12,000 for a production buildout deployed into your stack.
- What does a fractional cloud and AI advisor cost per month?
- €2,000, €3,000, or €4,000 per month, priced by the monthly deliverables rather than by the hour. €2,000 covers a regular review cadence and advice on call. €4,000 adds hands-on work alongside your team.
- How much does a cloud migration or platform engineering project cost?
- I price Cloud Migration & Platform Engineering per project rather than by the hour: €10,000 for a single application, €22,500 for a multi-account landing zone, and €35,000 for an enterprise estate. Platform work on a cloud you already run uses the same packages. Every project starts with the €2,500 Cloud Cost & Architecture Review, and that fee comes off the price if you go ahead within 30 days.
- Is the first call free?
- Yes. Thirty minutes, no pitch. I give a straight opinion on the next step, whether or not we work together.
- What if our project doesn't fit a package?
- That happens, and it's fine. Every engagement starts with a one-page proposal: scope, deliverables, and a price we agree on before work starts. If the honest answer is that you don't need me yet, the proposal says so.
Let's talk.
A 30-minute call, no pitch. We look at your current setup, your stage, and the thing that's bothering you about it. I give a straight opinion on what to change, what to leave alone, and whether the problem is the one it looks like. What's the one thing in your stack you'd fix tomorrow?
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