Every price on this page is published.

A Tier 2 engagement is a fixed price, a scope written down before you pay the balance, one senior engineer, a written deliverable and a walkthrough call on it. The published engagements run from three days to three weeks, from the $2,500 vendor AI assessment to the $8,900 ISO/IEC 42001 gap assessment. Every deliverable ends with an explicit section listing what you do not need us for.

Aniruddh Atrey, Founder and CTO of MetaMinds. He scopes the engagement, does the technical work and signs the deliverable, and he is the person on the scoping call before you pay a balance. There is no account manager in between, no partner who appears at the kickoff and is never seen again, and no junior carrying the parts you paid a senior rate for. That is the single structural reason these prices work, and it is also the honest limit on how many engagements run at once.

No certification and no attestation, because those come from an accredited certification body or a licensed CPA firm rather than from us. No program running for months, no workshops for stakeholders who are not engineers, no partner at your steering meetings, no document written to be read by a board, and no general CRM or CMS build. If your problem is not on this page, we say so on the first call rather than stretching a scope to fit it.

The deposit reserves a named start week, which is held for you and offered to nobody else. It is $900 on the two one-week engagements, the EU AI Act readiness assessment and attestation readiness scoping, and $1,500 on the longest one, the ISO/IEC 42001 gap assessment; every deposit on this page is printed next to the price it belongs to, so you can check it rather than take our word for it. It is part of the fee and not a charge on top of it. A scoping call with the engineer who would do the work follows within two business days, and if the scope is agreed the balance is invoiced with the deposit credited in full against it. The vendor AI assessment is the one engagement with no deposit at all: three days, prepaid in full.

It is refunded in full if we decline the work, and in full if the scope turns out to be materially different from what you described when you booked. Not a portion of it, and not a credit note. If you cancel a reserved week for reasons of your own, with less notice than our terms require, the deposit is not refunded, because the week was held and cannot be filled at that notice. With more notice we move the booking or refund the deposit, your choice. The notice period itself is still pending in our terms.

One. The $2,500 vendor AI assessment runs three days and the deliverable lands before an invoice for a balance would clear, so it is prepaid rather than deposited. Every other Tier 2 engagement starts with a deposit.

You pay on the product page and the file arrives immediately. One payment in USD, no account, no subscription and no scoping call. Nine of the ten are instant downloads; the Article 50 readiness report is the exception, because a person reads your questionnaire and writes the classification back to you. Because a downloaded file cannot be returned, the checkout asks you to confirm before paying that downloading ends your 14-day right to withdraw, which is what the law requires us to do.

Yes. Nothing here is a launch discount, an introductory rate, or a figure that depends on when you arrive. Every price on this page is read from one module in the codebase, and a build gate checks each one against a written claims register before the site ships.

The published price is the price. It does not move with the size of the buyer, the quarter it is asked in, or how the first call went, and there is no launch discount, no introductory rate and no pilot pricing. What is adjustable is scope, which is the honest lever: a smaller question is a smaller engagement, and if the right answer is a cheaper tier, or no engagement at all, that is what you get told on the first call. A price that varies with who is asking is a price you have to negotiate to discover, which is the thing this page exists to avoid.

Because a price you have to ask for is a price that varies with who is asking. Every figure on this page is read from one module in the codebase rather than retyped per page, and a build gate checks each one against a written claims register before the site ships. The structural reasons the number is what it is are printed beside it rather than saved for a call.

Yes. Every Tier 2 and Tier 3 price is published in USD, EUR, GBP and SGD. They are set per market rather than converted, so the euro figure is a price and not today's exchange rate. Prices exclude VAT, and EU businesses with a valid VAT ID are invoiced under the reverse charge.

Because a fixed number quoted before anyone has seen your data is a guess wearing a suit. Each build publishes a floor, from $18,000 for a retrieval and document intelligence build to $35,000 for a vertical management system, with its typical band drawn beside it on the scale at the top of this page. The number in a proposal comes after a call and a look at the system.

Yes, and it is quoted separately when it does. A Tier 2 engagement ends in a written deliverable rather than in a proposal, so nothing in its scope is held back to manufacture the need for a larger one. If what the work finds is a system that has to be built, that is a Tier 3 build priced from its own published floor after a call and a look at the system, and if what it finds is that you can do the remaining work yourselves, the deliverable says so in the section that lists what you do not need us for.

Three scopes, monthly. Conformance Watch is $690 a month and is evidence maintenance: a dated brief on what changed in the instruments that apply to your systems. Maintain starts at $2,400 a month and adds your evaluation suite run on a fixed cadence against the current model and corpus. Operate starts at $6,000 a month and is the full engagement, including incident response inside an agreed window. Maintain and Operate carry a three-month minimum.

Maintain and Operate carry a three-month minimum. Conformance Watch does not, and carries no notice period either. The reason is the deliverable rather than the commercial term: an evaluation cadence shorter than a quarter does not produce a trend, and on Maintain the trend is what you are paying for, while Operate adds a quarterly re-test that cannot be demonstrated inside a shorter period. Watch is a dated brief on what changed, which stands on its own month by month. Nothing on this page renews into a longer commitment than the one written into the engagement letter, and no tier outside the retainers carries a minimum term at all: a fixed-scope engagement ends when its deliverable lands, and a build ends at handover.

An engagement is a fixed price for a fixed scope that ends in a written deliverable: it has a named start week, an end, and nothing after it. A retainer is monthly work that keeps a system's evidence current once that system exists, from $690 a month for Conformance Watch up to Operate, which starts at $6,000 a month. The usual order is the engagement first, so there is a documented baseline, and then a retainer to hold it. If you already have a baseline from someone else that is fine and often better: we will read it, tell you what in it has a shelf life, and you can decide whether any of it is worth paying to maintain. Either can be bought without the other.

By what ends the work, not by what it costs. A fixed-scope engagement is a question about a system you already run: it has a price agreed before you pay the balance, a named start week, and it ends when the written deliverable lands. A build is a system that does not exist yet: it is priced from a published floor after a call and a look at what you already run, because a fixed number quoted before anyone has seen your data is a guess wearing a suit, and it ends at handover. They sit three orders of magnitude apart, from the $99 worksheet at the bottom of the scale to the $35,000 floor on a vertical management system, which is why the figure at the top of this page uses a logarithmic axis: it is the only one both ends fit on and still read. If you are not sure which one your problem is, that is the first thing the call settles.

Tier 2, for most people. It is the tier where a fixed price buys a written deliverable from a senior engineer on a scope agreed before the balance is due. Tier 1 is repackaged artifacts for a team that intends to do the work itself. Tier 3 is for a system that has to be built, handed over and then run.

ISO/IEC 42001 certification comes from an accredited certification body, and a SOC 2 report from a licensed CPA firm, each after its own audit that you commission directly and pay for separately. What MetaMinds delivers is the gap assessment, readiness, control design and evidence preparation that goes in front of that audit, which is the part that decides whether the evidence holds up when somebody finally asks for it. Taking them in that order is cheaper than finding the gaps while an auditor is watching.

Engineering artifacts, built for your team to fill in and your counsel to review: each product page states the license that comes with it, and each is structured so the output is something a reviewer can actually read. They are not a substitute for the advice or services of an attorney, so anything carrying legal effect goes past your own counsel before you rely on it, the same way an internal draft would.