What it costs
Four steps. Each one priced, and each one refusable.
Every step buys more access and produces more evidence, and the price rises with both. Each step is complete in itself: it produces something you keep and can act on without buying the next one. Nothing starts without a fixed price agreed in writing first, and there is no hourly rate anywhere on this page.
You can stop after any step. The analysis does not oblige you to buy the inspection, the inspection does not oblige you to buy a build, and I would rather you stopped at a step that was worth it than continued into one that was not.
Step one
Analyse · £150 fixed
Access required: none. No credentials, no login, nothing inside your accounts.
An examination of an agreed public surface of your business, from the outside. You get one named written report in which every finding is labelled as observed, reproduced or inferred, and which ends by stating what cannot be established from outside.
If the analysis tells you nothing you didn’t already know, tell me and the invoice is cancelled. You decide whether it told you something; I do not arbitrate that. What the analysis covers, in detail
Step two
Inspect · £750 fixed
Access required: read-only, on credentials you issue and can revoke. In your own admin, at your own permission level, revocable at any moment.
This is bounded on purpose, and the boundary is the product. You name one workflow that matters and that you suspect is not behaving: an order reaching fulfilment, a signup reaching the email platform, a published claim reaching the page a customer actually sees. We agree in writing which systems that workflow crosses, and that agreed set is the whole scope.
I then follow that one workflow across those systems and report where they disagree with each other. You receive the findings, the evidence behind each one and a reproduction path for each, in the same observed, reproduced and inferred form as the analysis.
What £750 does not buy
- It is not an audit of your whole business, and it is not unlimited systems. One workflow, across the systems named in writing before I start.
- Nothing changes state. It is read-only throughout: no settings altered, no records edited, no messages sent, no data written.
- It is not legal, clinical, regulatory or advertising sign-off. Your named experts approve claims and eligibility, not me.
- If the workflow turns out to cross more systems than we agreed, I tell you and we re-price it or stop. I do not widen the scope quietly and bill it later.
Step three
Build · from £2,500
Access required: write access, gated by a named approver in your business.
Only where the evidence justifies changing or building something. The scope and the price are agreed in writing before any work starts, and the price is fixed for that scope: £2,500 is where builds start, not what a build costs. A larger scope costs more, and you see the number before you agree to it, not after.
If the inspection does not justify a build, I say so and there is no build. That has to be a real possibility for the inspection to be worth anything.
Step four
Operate · from £750 a month
Access required: standing, gated access, revocable by you.
Only where there is a real recurring workload worth operating. If there is not, this step does not apply to you and I will say so rather than sell it.
This is worked operation, not an unattended service. The agents run inside sessions I start, watch and end. Nothing monitors your systems on its own, nothing acts while nobody is looking, and no part of this is software left running in your business. What you are buying is one engineer, directing software, staying with the system after it goes live.
Scope and price are reviewed quarterly against the documented evidence of what the work has actually done. Nothing changes without your agreement.
Every session is recorded, and that record is what the review reads. A quiet quarter is reported as a quiet quarter, not left blank and not written up as activity.
Who I work with
I only work on businesses I am comfortable helping succeed.
HigherSelf Systems is selective about the work it takes on. I will not build systems designed to mislead customers, conceal material facts, evade safeguards or exploit people. If I do not believe I can help your business in a way I can stand behind, I will not take the engagement.
This is a limit on what I sell, not a claim to judge your business from outside. I am not certifying anyone and I am not scoring anyone. It only means that if I am not comfortable, I say no, and I would rather say it before you have paid me than after.
The same for everyone
- One price list. The same step costs the same whoever asks.
- Fixed prices, agreed in writing before work starts. No hourly billing, and no estimate that grows.
- No revenue, conversion or deliverability outcome is promised at any step, at any price.
- The always-on agent I am working towards is a specification, not running software, and it is not part of anything I sell.