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title: "AI Automation Agency Pricing — Audit, Sprint & Retainer"
description: "Transparent AI automation pricing for growing businesses: a fixed-fee workflow audit, build sprints and a month-to-month retainer. Built on your stack or replacing costly SaaS — you own the code."
url: https://tribehq.ai/pricing/
section: "Pricing"
updated: 2026-10-26
questions:
  - "Will this cost less than our current software?"
  - "Who owns what you build?"
  - "Do tool subscriptions come out of the retainer?"
  - "Can we skip the audit?"
  - "What if a workflow breaks?"
  - "Where are your clients based?"
  - "How much of our team’s time does this take?"
---

# AI Automation Agency Pricing — Audit, Sprint & Retainer

> Transparent AI automation pricing for growing businesses: a fixed-fee workflow audit, build sprints and a month-to-month retainer. Built on your stack or replacing costly SaaS — you own the code.

Source: https://tribehq.ai/pricing/

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Pricing

# Clear pricing. No lock-in. 

Audit, build, then keep us only if it earns its place.

[Start with an audit](https://calendly.com/hello-tribehq/30min) [Compare options](#compare)

Step 1

## Workflow Audit

Map what to automate before spending on builds.

\[PRICE\] fixed fee

1 week · ~3 hrs of your time [Get started ](https://calendly.com/hello-tribehq/30min)

- 60-minute discovery with your team
- Map of your onboarding, lead and ops workflows
- Stack and SaaS licence-spend review
- Hours-saved scoring for every workflow
- Build plan: keep your stack, or replace what’s overpriced
- Yours to keep — build with us or anyone

Step 2 Most chosen

## Build Sprint

Ship production workflows in your own accounts.

\[PRICE\] per sprint

2–4 weeks · ~1 hr/week of your time [Start with a sprint ](https://calendly.com/hello-tribehq/30min)

- 2–4 production workflows or agents
- Built on your stack — or replacing costly SaaS
- Human-in-the-loop approval gates
- Testing, evals and error handling
- Code in your repo, with docs and a CLAUDE.md
- 30 days of post-launch fixes

Step 3

## Tribe Retainer

Your on-call build team.

\[PRICE\] / month

Monthly · ~30 min/month [Get started ](https://calendly.com/hello-tribehq/30min)

- Monitoring and maintenance of live workflows
- New workflow every month
- Reviews of changes you make with AI tools
- Weekly report: hours saved and what’s next
- Slack / Teams channel in your business hours
- Cancel anytime — the code stays yours

## Rent, hire or own.

What you’d pay elsewhere — and what you’d own.

| Compare | TribeHQ | Off-the-shelf SaaS | In-house hire |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Time to first live workflow | 2–4 weeks | Weeks of setup and training | 3–6 months incl. hiring and ramp |
| Fits your process | Custom-built around it | You adapt to the tool | Depends on the hire |
| Cost structure | Fixed audit + sprint, then an optional retainer | Per-seat fees that rise at renewal | $120K–$180K salary + benefits |
| Who owns it | You — code, data and docs | The vendor | You |
| Changing it later | Edit it with any AI tool, or ask us | Feature request, then wait | Depends on who’s still there |
| Commitment | Month-to-month | Annual contracts are common | Permanent headcount |

In-house range reflects typical 2026 US salaries for a GTM or automation engineer, plus benefits.

## Pricing questions

### Will this cost less than our current software?

Often, yes — especially if you pay per seat for features you barely use. The audit compares your licence spend with the cost of a custom build, so you see the numbers before deciding.

### Who owns what you build?

You do, end to end. Code lives in your repo, automations in your accounts, with docs — no licence fees to us and no lock-in.

### Do tool subscriptions come out of the retainer?

No. Software is billed to your accounts at cost, so you always own and control it — and see exactly what you pay.

### Can we skip the audit?

If you already know the workflow you want, we can scope a sprint directly after one call.

### What if a workflow breaks?

Every build ships with error alerts and a runbook. Sprints include 30 days of fixes; retainers cover it ongoing.

### Where are your clients based?

Anywhere. We work with clients in the US, UK, Australia and beyond — asynchronously, with calls scheduled in your business hours.

### How much of our team’s time does this take?

Under 10 hours of your team’s time from audit to go-live: about 3 hours during the one-week audit (a kickoff call, short walkthroughs of how you work today and a plan review), then about 1 hour a week during the build sprint for a check-in, quick questions and testing. After launch, about 30 minutes a month.

## Start with the audit.

[Book a workflow audit](https://calendly.com/hello-tribehq/30min) [Contact us](https://tribehq.ai/contact/)