Plans
Reading this site needs no account and no payment. An account adds the two things that are yours — a thread for a question you asked, and a vote on what gets built next. The paid plans are what happens when I am working for you: the limits move, and your thread stops waiting behind everybody else's.
Every number on this page comes out of the same table the site enforces, so a limit cannot be advertised here and be different in practice.
Rendered from the plan table itself. Add a fourth tier to that table and it appears here, in rank order, with its real limits — which is the point of keeping tiers as rows rather than as a fixed list in the code.
Free
Read everything, ask one thing at a time.
$0
Every page on this site is readable without an account. A free account adds the two things that are yours: a thread for a question you asked, and a vote on what gets built next.
AI
Client
While I am working on something for you.
from $800
Granted by hand when an engagement starts, and it carries the end date of that engagement. Threads stop being rationed, attachments get big enough for a real build log, and replies go to the front of the queue.
AI
Retainer
A company with more than one person who needs an answer.
from $2,400
The monthly retainer, as an account. Three seats minimum, because below three it is Client wearing a different word — and every seat gets better limits than Client, not the same limits divided up.
AI
Not a summary — this is the whole set. A limit that exists and is not on this table would be enforced without ever being stated, which is the one way a comparison table can lie.
| Limit | Free | Client | Retainer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open question threads | 1 at a time | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Feature requests | 3 open at a time | 25 open at a time | Unlimited |
| Attachment size | 5 MB | 100 MB | 1 GB |
| Reply priority | Standard | Priority | Priority |
| Seats | 1 minimum | 1 minimum | 3 minimum |
| AI | |||
AI level | AI level: Spark | AI level: Pulse | AI level: Surge |
AI drafts | 10 a month | 100 a month | 300 a month |
Questions about the work | 20 a month | 200 a month | 500 a month |
Speak recordings | 10 a month | 100 a month | 300 a month |
Going down a plan never deletes anything. Whatever is over the smaller limit becomes read-only and stays readable, exportable and yours.
These are the six ways I take on work. They are priced per engagement, not per month, and the account plan follows from the engagement rather than being a separate thing you buy.
Two things worth saying first
Every figure below is a floor. Compliance work, an urgent deadline or an unusual stack moves the quote up, and I say so before you commit to anything.
The first thirty minutes are free — scoping, a recommendation, and an honest answer if the work is not something I should be doing.
Small feature or bug fix
from $800
One feature, integration or fix on a codebase that already exists, with thirty days of bug fixes after delivery.
Puts your account on Client
MVP build
from $3,000
Discovery, a production-grade app, the backend behind it and CI/CD. Typically $3,000–$8,000.
Puts your account on Client
Production app
from $8,000
Full architecture, web and mobile, role-based access, audit logging, analytics and handoff. Typically $8,000–$25,000.
Puts your account on Client
Codebase rescue or audit
from $1,500
Security, performance, dependencies, type safety and CI/CD, with a prioritised roadmap and effort estimates.
Puts your account on Client
Fractional retainer
from $2,400
Around thirty hours a month, a monthly architecture review, priority bug fixes and direct access.
Puts your account on Retainer
Mentoring and code review
$60–80
$60 an hour for individuals, $80 for teams. One-to-one sessions, PR-level review and architecture office hours.
Puts your account on Client
Hosting, third-party services and store fees are yours and are paid to those vendors directly. For anything this page does not price, get in touch.
There is no checkout on this site and no processor sitting in the middle. You send the money the way you already send money, and then you tell me — those are two separate steps because they happen in two different places.
Send it
Bank transfer, Wise, or whatever we agreed. Every method, with its own fees stated, is on the payment page.
Open the payment pageTell me it is on the way
The form beside this records it against your account, so when the transfer lands I already know whose it is. It does not charge anything and it does not change your plan — I do that by hand once the money arrives.
I set the plan, with an end date
Every grant carries the date it runs out and the plan it falls back to. A plan that never ends is a free tier with extra steps, so this product does not have one.
Short, and here rather than only in the terms, because these are the two questions people ask after they have paid.
Cancelling stops the next renewal, not this one. You keep everything you have paid for until the end of the period you paid for, and it does not renew after that. Nothing is switched off early.
Free accounts help pay for themselves. I may use content from free accounts to improve and train the features I build here. Content in a paid plan is not used that way without your explicit consent. You can object at any time and I will exclude your account, and moving to a paid plan stops it outright.
The full versions are in the terms, and the data-use clause is also in the privacy policy under how the data is used — a practice that only appears in the terms is a practice nobody has disclosed.
What a downgrade does