Pricing

Why there is no price list

A published price is only honest if it covers what the customer actually gets, and with AI work the same headline can mean very different amounts of effort. A chatbot trained on thirty documents and one trained on thirty thousand are both "a chatbot". An automation that reads one invoice layout and one that reads fifty are both "document processing". Publishing a single figure would either price the small job too high or the large one too low, and in both cases it would mislead.

So we quote each job after a short conversation about what you need. The quote is written, states what is included and what is not, and is agreed before any paid work begins. Where we can, we offer a fixed scope for a fixed fee, so you know the cost in advance. Where a job is genuinely open-ended, we say so and propose a limit you approve.

What affects the price

Several things move a quote up or down, and it helps to know them so you can judge a proposal from us or anyone else. The first is scope: how many tasks, document types, users or systems are involved. The second is the state of your data. Clean, reachable data keeps costs down, while scattered or inconsistent data means preparation work before any AI can help. The third is how many of your existing systems the solution has to connect to, because each connection needs to be built and tested. The fourth is how much checking is required, for example human review of outputs in regulated settings. The fifth is whether you want us to run the result afterwards or hand it over.

A fixed-fee assessment, which looks at one question and ends in a written report, is the lowest-cost way to settle the largest uncertainties before committing to a build.

How a quote is built (illustrative)

This example uses no real figures. Suppose a firm asks for an assistant that answers staff questions from its policy documents. First we note the scope: how many documents, how often they change, how many people will ask questions. Then we check the data: are the documents text or scans, are they current, who may see which ones. Then the connections: does it need to sit inside an existing chat tool? Then the checking: who confirms the answers are right before it goes live?

Each answer adds or removes work. We write those items down, group them into a first stage that gives you something usable and later stages you can choose or skip, and give a price for each stage. You can approve the first stage alone. If it does what you wanted, you decide whether to continue.

Partner and white-label pricing

Firms that want to offer TaxTrex or creditARMOR, both Swanson Reed products, under their own brand have a separate pricing page. Partner terms, review tiers and integrations are proposals until confirmed with Swanson Reed, so we do not state figures for them here. Please see the partner pricing page and contact us to discuss your firm.

What is not included unless we say so

Our quotes list their exclusions. Typical examples are third-party software licenses you already pay for, usage fees charged by an AI provider to your own account, extra training sessions beyond the agreed number, and changes to scope after approval. Where usage fees depend on volume, we explain how they work and help you estimate them, because they can matter as much as the build cost.