Service packages & engagement retainers
Transparent monthly pricing. Zero surprises.
We don't sell decks or open-ended statements of work. Pick the hours and active streams you need, and get a managed engineering team for less than the cost of a single senior hire.
Starter Retainer
Prove the value on one stream
£2,500per month
- Developer hours
- Up to 40 hours / month
- Active streams
- 1 active project stream
- Ideal for
- Scoping proof-of-concepts and targeted single-stream enhancements.
- Weekly progress calls
- Code reviews
- Email support
- Managed coding or a single AI feature rollout
Growth Retainer
Scale data and AI together
£5,500per month
- Developer hours
- Up to 100 hours / month
- Active streams
- 2 active project streams
- Ideal for
- Growing businesses scaling data pipelines and AI product capabilities.
- Full Data Engineering & AI included
- Dedicated Slack workspace channel
- Bi-weekly strategic reviews
- Architecture oversight
Scale Retainer
End-to-end managed execution
Custompricing
- Developer hours
- Unlimited scope / dedicated engineering team
- Active streams
- Dedicated engineering team
- Ideal for
- Mid-market enterprises needing end-to-end managed execution.
- Full enterprise AI transformation programme
- Executive reporting
- Dedicated project manager
- Guaranteed SLA & 24/7 support
Special offer
Founding Client Pilot Programme
StrataHub is selecting 3 founding clients to partner with us at a preferential pilot rate of £1,000–£2,000 per month. In return, you receive priority engineering access and a tailored product roadmap.
- Preferential pilot rate of £1,000–£2,000 per month
- Priority engineering access ahead of the standard queue
- A product roadmap tailored to your operation
- Three places only
Comparison
Retainer, in-house hire, or agency
The honest version of the trade-off, so you can rule us out quickly if we’re the wrong fit.
| StrataHub Retainer | Hiring in-house | Traditional agency | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost | £2,500 – £5,500, fixed | £70k+ salary per senior hire | Project fees plus change requests |
| Time to start | Days | 3–6 month hiring cycle | Weeks of scoping |
| Breadth of skill | Coding, data, AI and AIOps in one team | One person, one specialism | Varies by account staffing |
| Output | Production systems in 90 days | Depends on ramp-up | Deliverables against a statement of work |
| Commitment | Monthly, cancel or resize | Permanent headcount | Fixed contract term |
| Ownership | You own the code and the IP | You own it | Often licensed back |
Process
3-Phase Delivery Framework
From audit to measured ROI
No 6-month roadmaps. No endless scoping. Working software in your environment within 90 days.
Discover & Audit
We analyse your existing data, technology stack, and operational workflows to identify high-impact opportunities where AI and automation deliver genuine return on investment.
Build & Integrate
We build working software and data pipelines directly integrated into your existing environment within 90 days — no endless roadmaps or non-functional demos.
Ship & Measure
Deployed into production with clear, trackable KPIs: operational hours saved, errors caught, cost per transaction reduced, and transparent ROI.
FAQ
Common questions
A stream is one workstream running in parallel — for example a managed coding build, a data pipeline programme, or an AI automation rollout. Starter runs one at a time; Growth runs two.
Hours are allocated per month and reset at the start of each cycle. If your workload is uneven, tell us at the review call and we will shape the plan around the actual delivery schedule.
Yes. Most clients start on Starter to prove value on a single stream, then move up to Growth once there is a second workstream worth running in parallel. You can move down again just as easily.
Yours. We deploy into your AWS, GCP, or Azure account so your data, models, and code stay in your control. Our Google and Microsoft startup partnerships can offset infrastructure cost during the build phase.
You do. Every codebase, pipeline, and model we build under a retainer is yours outright, delivered into your repositories with documentation and handover notes.
A single senior hire costs more than a Growth retainer and gives you one specialism. An agency sells you a project and leaves. We run as your managed engineering function — coding, data, and AI under one fixed monthly cost.
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Not sure which retainer fits?
Tell us about the use case. We'll recommend the right package on a 30-minute discovery call.