// pricing
Transparent pricing.
No surprises.
Fixed-price, agreed up front — no hourly meter, no open-ended time-and-materials. Buy individual SDLC phases or bundle a complete one, and see real project-archetype breakdowns before you commit to a discovery call.
// how we price
Two ways to work with us.
Fixed-milestone projects
One number, agreed before work starts. Payment lands at milestones — typically 25% to start, 50% at key build milestones, and 25% on completion; smaller projects often run 50/50. You know the total and the schedule before you commit, and every milestone ties to something shipped, not hours logged.
Fractional advisory retainer
For teams that want senior architecture judgment on tap — code review, technical direction, unblocking a stuck build — without commissioning a full project. Structured as a recurring engagement, scoped and priced to the cadence you need rather than a fixed project total.
why not hourly
Agent-accelerated delivery means individual work items — a blueprint, an integration, a test surface, a scaffold — that used to take weeks now take days. Billing by the hour would punish that speed — under a time-and-materials model, the faster we work, the less we earn, which is exactly the wrong incentive. Fixed milestones mean you are buying a defined outcome, not a clock. Our incentive lines up with yours: ship it well, and ship it fast.
// real examples
What it actually costs.
Representative project archetypes with phase-by-phase cost splits. Your real quote comes back in 2–3 business days after intake.
Internal tool / admin portal
~6–8 weeks · live dev in 2
phase split
SaaS MVP — auth, billing, dashboard
~10–14 weeks · live dev in 2
phase split
AI automation pipeline — RAG, agents
~8–12 weeks · live dev in 2
phase split
Mobile MVP — iOS + Android
~12–16 weeks · live dev in 2
phase split
Ranges represent typical scope, fixed-priced before we start. Want to own it outright? A full license + complete source code is available as a priced add-on. Other add-ons (escrow, on-call SLA, white-glove handover) are quoted separately and always agreed up front.
// à la carte
Or just buy the phase you need.
// always included
In every engagement.
A working, maintained product
You get a running product and you own your data; DVM keeps the underlying IP. Want it outright? Full license + complete source code as a priced add-on — total control and portability.
Security built in
OWASP Top 10, encryption at rest + in transit, reviewed on every commit.
Async progress + dev access
Access to a live dev environment with your first working demo, often as early as ~2 weeks. Online-first updates, no status-report theater.
30-day warranty
Bug fixes and stabilization included for the first 30 days post-launch.
// next step