Engineering. AI. Automation. Clear route.
Productized engagements with fixed scope — AI reliability audits, RAG and agent ops, automation pipelines, customer-facing AI products, retainers, diagnostic on-ramps, and full done-for-you bundles. Or scope something custom: free 30-minute call, 48-hour proposal, no asterisks.
audit entry
$750
self serve
Stripe
proposal window
48h
operator model
1:1
Choose by situation, not by guessing.
The services page should answer the buyer's real question fast: what do I need, what does it cost, how long does it take, and what should I click next?
01 · diagnose
Sage Audit
I know something is leaking, but not exactly what.
A focused findings report, priority map, and credit toward a larger build.
starts
$750
best when
I know something is leaking, but not exactly what.
02 · launch
Site / Brand sprint
I need a premium site, offer, or launch surface.
Positioning, site architecture, conversion flow, and a production-ready surface.
starts
$3.5k+
best when
I need a premium site, offer, or launch surface.
03 · automate
AI automation build
I need AI inside the business, not a toy demo.
Agents, retrieval, workflow automation, internal tools, and measurable operating lift.
starts
$2.6k+
best when
I need AI inside the business, not a toy demo.
04 · build
Product build
I need a real app, SaaS, or product system built.
Database, auth, billing, product UI, observability, launch, and iteration loop.
starts
scoped
best when
I need a real app, SaaS, or product system built.
05 · operate
Care plan
I already shipped and need care, content, or operations.
Maintenance, measurement, fixes, content support, and steady improvement.
starts
$600/mo+
best when
I already shipped and need care, content, or operations.
06 · learn
Academy path
I want to learn the system before hiring or building.
Courses, build notes, templates, and practical lessons from the same studio system.
starts
forming
best when
I want to learn the system before hiring or building.
Fixed scope, fixed price, Stripe checkout.
The original Sage Ideas catalog — strategy audits, marketing-site sprints, brand work, and platform builds. Audit is the self-serve on-ramp and credits toward a larger engagement.
Sage Audit
A focused set of eyes on your stack — in one week.
- Prioritized list of the 10 highest-leverage fixes
- Loom walkthrough you can share with your team
- 60-minute review call to triage next steps
- Optional credit toward a follow-on engagement
Ship
A production marketing site, in two weeks.
- Live, fast, indexable marketing site
- CMS your team can update without engineering
- Analytics and SEO foundation in place from day one
- 90+ Lighthouse across Performance, A11y, SEO, Best Practices
Automate
One critical workflow, automated end-to-end.
- One workflow runs without human supervision
- Monitoring + alerting in place — you know when it breaks
- Runbook your team can operate independently
- Cost-of-ops baseline established + tracked
SEO Sprint
Technical SEO + on-page foundation, fixed in 30 days.
- Every technical SEO blocker fixed — crawl, schema, vitals, sitemaps
- Programmatic SEO scaffolding for templated landing pages
- Tracking dashboard: rankings, clicks, vitals, indexation
- 60 days of post-sprint support to monitor and tune
Content Engine
Editorial-grade long-form, every week, for compounding reach.
- 4 long-form pieces per month — research-backed, editorially tight
- Distribution kit for every piece (LinkedIn, X, newsletter)
- Internal linking strategy that compounds month-over-month
- Performance dashboard: traffic, rankings, conversions
Brand Sprint
Verbal + visual identity, ready to ship — in 2 weeks.
- A brand identity that looks like it belongs to a real company
- Verbal system: positioning, voice, taglines, messaging hierarchy
- Visual system: logo, type, color, spacing, motion principles
- Production-ready design tokens — no friction handing off to web build
Scale
SEO + Content Engine running in lockstep — the compounding stack.
- Compounding organic traffic — typically 3–9 month payback
- A content moat in your category
- Technical SEO that does not regress
- Distribution that compounds with the content library
Build
Site + app + automation + SEO. Live in one sprint.
- A live, full-stack business in production
- Site + app + automation + SEO under one strategy
- 90 days of operator-grade support post-launch
App Development
A purpose-built web app for your small team — spec, prototype, build, launch.
- A live, custom web app your team and customers can use
- A spec, a prototype, then a real production app — in that order
- Tests, monitoring, and a runbook so the app survives without me
- Mobile-friendly responsive design out of the box
Operate
Engineering ownership on retainer. About twenty hours a week.
- A dedicated engineer who owns one critical surface area
- Weekly syncs + async availability
- Architecture decisions you can stand behind
Twenty-plus more ways we can help.
AI reliability, automation pipelines, customer-facing AI products, productized retainers, diagnostics, and full bundles. Inquiry-first — every engagement is scoped and priced in writing before you commit.
- AI Reliability Audit
Find out if your AI feature actually works — in two weeks.
from $4,5002 weeks - RAG Systems Engineering
Productionize the prototype your team has been demoing for six months.
from $9,5004–6 weeks - Agent Ops
Keep your agent from burning $400 in a loop overnight.
from $7,5003–4 weeks - Internal AI Copilot
A Slack/Teams bot trained on your docs that actually answers questions.
from $9,5004 weeks - Prompt & Eval Library Setup
Stop versioning prompts in Notion. Treat them like code.
from $3,5002 weeks - RAG-as-a-Service
Your docs, searchable by an agent that cites every answer.
from $1,8002–3 weeks setup - Churn Prediction Model
Know which customers are about to leave — while you can still save them.
from $3,8004 weeks
- Ops Automation Sprint
Five workflows shipped in one week. Boring, reliable, no no-code toys.
$4,5001 week - Incident → Postmortem Pipeline
Sentry alert → Slack thread → Notion postmortem → Linear actions. All automatic.
from $5,5002 weeks - Release Notes Automation
PRs → categorized changelog → customer email — automatically.
$3,5001 week - Customer Feedback Router
Intercom + Zendesk + email → deduped, categorized Linear tickets with frequency counts.
from $6,5003 weeks - Data Hygiene Bot
Find the broken data in Stripe, HubSpot, and Salesforce before your CFO does.
from $4,5002 weeks - AI Meeting Notes + CRM Sync
Every call summarized, every action item assigned, every CRM field updated.
from $9002 weeks - Stripe Integration Sprint
Production-grade billing in one week.
from $1,8001 week - Auth + Billing Foundation
The boring 2 weeks every SaaS skips and regrets.
from $3,2002 weeks
- Docs-as-a-Product
Your docs as an AI search experience that knows what your users keep asking.
from $7,5003 weeks - AI Onboarding Concierge
In-app guided activation that adapts to what each new user is trying to do.
from $9,5004 weeks - Support Deflection Layer
Tier-1 answers with citations. Clean handoff. Eval loop you trust.
from $9,5004 weeks - AI SDR Agent
Outbound prospecting that researches before it writes.
from $2,4004 weeks - AI Customer Support Agent
Triages every ticket, drafts every reply, escalates the hard ones.
from $2,2003 weeks - AI Internal Knowledge Bot
A Slack bot that knows your SOPs better than half your team does.
from $1,4002 weeks
- AI Quality Retainer
Monthly evals, regression report, one upgrade, one fix. Your AI ages well.
$2,500/moQuarterly minimum - Automation Retainer
Two new pipelines per month plus maintenance of everything we ship.
$2,000/moQuarterly minimum - Reliability Retainer
Own your alerting hygiene, run a quarterly chaos drill, ship a monthly scorecard.
$3,000/moQuarterly minimum - Founder's Tech Partner
Weekly strategy + async Slack + one ship per month. Half the price of fractional.
$3,500/moTwo-month minimum
- 48-Hour AI Readiness Assessment
A one-page scorecard that tells you where AI helps and where it doesn't.
$1,50048 hours - Stack X-Ray
Tooling spend + integration debt audit. Find $X/month and 5 automation wins.
$1,2005 business days - Hallucination Hunt
Two-day stress test of your AI feature. Ranked vulnerability list at the end.
$2,00048 hours
We ship these patterns ourselves first.
Every offer above is built on a pattern already running in production — in our Lab or in shipped client work. Three concrete examples:
Care plans for teams who already shipped.
Lightweight monthly retainers — upkeep on something you already launched. Real Stripe subscriptions, cancel anytime.
Site Care
Monthly site upkeep — patches, copy edits, perf tuning.
- Uptime + security patching
- Copy edits and content updates
- Performance tuning + Lighthouse upkeep
- Small feature tweaks each month
Brand Care
Monthly brand maintenance — logo updates, social, guideline upkeep.
- Asset library upkeep + new template requests
- Brand guideline edits as the company evolves
- Small-batch social / sales / event design
- Quarterly brand health review
Content Care
Monthly content maintenance — refreshes, internal linking, repurposing.
- Existing-post refreshes (every month)
- Internal linking + cluster strengthening
- Light social + newsletter repurposing
- Monthly analytics + topic suggestions
Proof, not promises.
The offer is a pipeline, not a menu.
Premium services pages should reveal the operating model behind the work. This section sets the pattern for every individual service page we upgrade next.
Living architecture
Scope → Ship → Operate
Every serious engagement moves through the same production path: diagnosis, architecture, build, validation, handoff, and operating loop.
Book the right path- 01ScopeWritten deliverables, constraints, acceptance criteria, and price before work begins.
- 02BuildProduction code, real integrations, analytics, SEO, checkout, or AI workflows depending on the route.
- 03VerifyLint, typecheck, tests, build, visual QA, browser smoke, and launch gates.
- 04OperateDocumentation, handoff, care plan, or continued studio engagement when the system needs stewardship.
Or scope something custom.
A hybrid engagement, a multi-month build, a retainer with a specific deliverable list — every engagement can be custom-scoped. Transparent quote, fixed price, no asterisks.