Victor Lipov
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Pricing

An external tech team, for a fraction of a hire.

No fixed-scope projects and no per-hour billing. You pay a time-boxed rate to build, then a monthly fee to keep the system working and improving. The number is scoped to how critical the system is and what it's worth to you, so here is how it works and where it starts.

The idea

Your business isn't software, but it runs on it. Technology is a support function, the ground the business stands on, not the business itself. Most owners know they need an IT strategy and never get to it. I am that function for you: a tailored technology strategy you can see, control, and trust, so your attention stays on the business, not on the systems underneath it.

Two phases, one subscription

Build is intense and time-boxed: I ship into your production, in any direction, and own the outcome. When it's live and stable it steps down to Run, an ongoing fee to keep it healthy and improving. A new push later just steps the rate back up for a while, so you are never capped, and never paying build intensity for a system that's just running.

€ / month time → Run · ongoing baseline Build time-boxed, a few months development push

Start high while I build, settle into a low ongoing fee, step up again only when you want new work. You get a budget envelope, not a scope document.

One thing sets the price: how critical the system is

Not how many features it has, how much it would hurt if it broke. A system that holds sensitive data, takes payments, or stops your business when it's down is priced differently from an internal tool where a day of downtime is fine. That single call sets both the build rate and the monthly Run fee.

Simple

Internal & low-risk

An internal tool, no sensitive data, no money on the line. Down for a day is fine.
Build
from €1,000 /mo, time-boxed
Run
from €150 /mo per system
Standard

Public & multi-user

Public-facing or multi-user, holds contact data or invoicing. Matters if it's down more than a day.
Build
from €2,500 /mo, time-boxed
Run
from €350 /mo per system
Critical

On the critical path

Takes payments or holds sensitive data, and your business stops if it's down. Highest care.
Build
from €4,500 /mo, time-boxed
Run
from €600 /mo per system

Each system you have with me is one line on one monthly invoice: a base coverage line, plus a line per system at its tier. Add a system, add a line. Nothing hidden.

Every Run fee includes

What you're actually paying for

Not maintenance. The running is nearly automatic, that's the point. You're buying three things a single in-house hire rarely delivers:

Risk transfer

GDPR, uptime, a vendor API breaking, the law changing. When it goes wrong, it's on me, not on you.

Capability access

Decision-systems and process expertise on call, without hiring and running a technical team of your own.

Focus

You stay on your business. I run the systems it depends on, and keep improving them.

These are starting points, not a menu. The real number is scoped to your operation and what the system is worth to you, a system that wins or serves customers is priced against that value, never against my hours. Larger estates and higher-criticality work scale from here. The quickest way to a real number is the free read below.

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