# Pricing - Buildooor

Last updated: Jul 17, 2026

Buildooor is a forward-deployed engineering service for useful-but-brittle AI code. Cold inbound meetings default to a $300 Initial Consultation that maps issues and next steps. Hands-on work defaults to a 4 hour work session in the buyer's real stack, producing a code delta or workflow improvement, a written diagnosis, and one defended next step.

## Public Offers

### initial consultation
- Price: $300
- Time to money: same-week
- Summary: paid gate for cold inbound meetings: learn the client's issues and map next steps for working together
- Details: $300 paid gate for cold inbound "can we meet?" requests; learn the client's issues and map next steps for working together
- Public URL: https://buildooor.com/contact

### 4 hour work session
- Price: $800-$1,400
- Summary: hands-on diagnosis in the real stack, with working output and a defended next move
- Public URL: https://buildooor.com/?folder=pay

### Implementation sprint
- Price: $12k-$30k
- Time to money: 1-3 weeks
- Summary: shared-core implementation or carve-out work with named deliverables

### Private Agent Box Setup & Migration
- Price: $1.5k-$12k
- Time to money: 1-3 weeks
- Summary: one operator or small team gets a working private agent box, migration brief, and handover path before any retainer

### Box Stewardship
- Price: $1.2k-$3.5k/mo
- Time to money: 2-6 weeks
- Summary: recurring ops layer for agencies, fractional operators, and small teams whose AI coding workflow now depends on the box working

### high-judgment domain work
- Price: custom scope
- Summary: Used only when the work genuinely overlaps finance, HOA, or health judgment surfaces where the artifact and the downside of being wrong matter more than the software shell.

## 4 Hour Work Session Deliverables

- a real code delta or working workflow improvement
- a written diagnosis of what is brittle, blocked, or mis-scoped
- one explicit next-step recommendation with price shape and reason

## Post-Session Routing

| Branch | When it wins | Next money shape |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Hardening / implementation sprint | the problem is bounded and can be solved with concrete production hardening, rescue, audit, or explicitly scoped code / deployment work | fixed-scope project, usually 1-3 weeks |
| AI Operating Playbook | the buyer needs one real workflow made execution-grade for a team, with playbook artifacts that survive beyond the session | scoped playbook / workflow sprint |
| Private Agent Box Setup & Migration | the client now needs a persistent private box and should get onto a stable owned environment before recurring support | scoped setup fee or sprint |
| Box Stewardship | the client already depends on that private box for real shipping work and now needs ongoing reliability coverage | recurring monthly retainer |
| Diagnosis only / no-go | the buyer can keep shipping alone or the portfolio is not the right fit | no forced upsell |

## Managed Follow-On Plans

### setup / migration
- Summary: Private Agent Box Setup & Migration — get one operator or small team onto a working private box with handover docs
- Money shape: scoped setup fee or sprint

### stewardship
- Summary: Box Stewardship — drift review, backup checks, cost/log review, lightweight incidents, and a visible monthly steward report
- Money shape: low-thousands monthly retainer

### private accelerators
- Summary: client-specific blueprints, skill packs, and overlay templates that reduce repeated implementation work
- Money shape: add-on to setup or Box Stewardship

### light SLA add-on
- Summary: response targets and clearer severity handling for buyers with real production dependence
- Money shape: add-on to Box Stewardship, not default

## Source Concepts

- Commercial Contract State: Offer, Handoff, and Proof: updated Jul 9, 2026
- Direct-to-Consumer Monetization: Own the Relationship: updated Jul 17, 2026
- Buildooor: Forward-Deployed Engineering for Vibe Coders: updated Jul 9, 2026

## Contact

- Paid diagnosis: https://buildooor.com/?folder=pay
- Quick fit call: https://buildooor.com/contact
- Email: buildooor@gmail.com