How Does Cirro Price an Engagement?

How does Cirro price an engagement?

Pricing is based on three things: your requirements, the length of the engagement, and the scope and volume of work involved. We work across fixed-price engagements, hourly billing and retainers, and which one suits you depends on how well defined the work is. Write to us at solutions@cirrocraft.com with your exact requirements and we will come back to you with an estimate.

The three models

  • Fixed price. Suits work that can be defined clearly up front, such as a defined implementation or a specific build. You know the total before you commit, and the risk of the estimate sits with us.
  • Hourly. Suits work that cannot sensibly be pinned down in advance, such as exploratory work, small changes, or a piece of investigation where the answer determines the effort. You pay for what is used.
  • Retainer. Suits an ongoing relationship where work arrives continuously rather than as a project, and where you want capacity available rather than a quote for each request.

What makes one project cost more than another

Four factors move the number, and team size is not one of them. A twenty-person company with three distinct sales processes involves more work than a hundred-person company with one.

  • How many products go live, since each brings its own configuration, testing and training.
  • How far your process sits from the standard configuration.
  • Whether data is being migrated, where the condition of the data matters more than the volume.
  • How many integrations are needed, and how well the other systems expose their data.

Why we do not publish a price list

Two organisations asking for the same product can need very different amounts of work. A published figure would be wrong for most people who read it, and being wrong in a buyer's favour or against it are both bad outcomes. We would rather understand your situation and give you a number that holds.

What you get before you commit

A written scope describing what will be delivered, the commercial model that fits it, and what falls outside. If something is excluded, it is stated as excluded rather than left ambiguous. Anything that changes later goes through an agreed change process rather than appearing on an invoice.

What this means for you

Ask any partner which model they are proposing and why that one. A partner who only offers a single commercial model is fitting your engagement to their preference rather than to the shape of the work.

Next step

Send your requirements to solutions@cirrocraft.com and we will come back with an estimate and the model that fits. You can also book a call if you would rather talk it through first.

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