Pricing is a conversation,
not a table

There is no price list on this page, and that is on purpose. Tell us what your week actually looks like and you get back a written scope and one fixed monthly number for it.

Two operations can look identical from the outside — same headcount, same city, same trade — and be nothing alike once you open them up. One takes every request through a single inbox. The next has four channels, a shared voicemail and a whiteboard. One has a real API on its scheduling system; the next has a vendor who does not answer email. One is sitting on a clean vendor list; the next has a decade of spreadsheets with three spellings of the same company. A published number would be wrong for almost everybody who read it, and the people it was wrong for are exactly the ones who would never call.

So we do it the slow way: thirty minutes on your actual workflow, then a real number. If you would rather read first, the six systems are described on the services page, and who you would be working with is on the about page.

How pricing works

Three steps, and
no surprises in either direction

Nothing here is a negotiating tactic. This is just the order the work happens in.

01

A free 30-minute discovery

We walk your workflow end to end — how a request arrives, who touches it, where it waits, and which parts only live in someone's head. Then we name three automations worth doing first and rank them by what they give back soonest.

  • No deck, no discovery fee, no obligation
  • You keep the map whether or not you hire us
02

A written scope and a fixed monthly number

You get the scope in writing — the systems, what each one touches, what it does not do, and what we need from you to build it. One monthly figure covers the lot.

  • No setup fee and no onboarding charge
  • No per-seat pricing — add a person, pay the same
  • No surprise invoice in month three
03

Start with one system, or all six

Most operations should take the one thing that eats the most attention and live with it for a few weeks first. The systems are built to sit beside each other, so the second one is an extension rather than a rebuild.

  • Add systems later without redoing the first
  • Month to month — and you can stop
The honest drivers

What actually
changes the number

Six things move a quote up or down. None of them are levers we pull — they are just how much work the build is. You will see each one named in your scope.

Channels
How many different places a request can land. One shared inbox is one intake. Email, phone, text, a client portal and a clipboard on a truck is five, and each one needs its own path in and out.
Call volume & coverage
Roughly how many calls a week the phone agent would carry, whether it covers business hours or around the clock, and whether it needs to answer in Spanish as well as English.
Systems & APIs
How many pieces of software have to talk to each other, and whether they have a real API or have to be worked around. A documented API is an afternoon. A portal with no API is a different conversation.
Regulated data
Whether protected health information touches the workflow. If it does, the build runs on HIPAA-eligible infrastructure under a signed BAA, and we sign a BAA with your practice. That changes the architecture, not just the paperwork.
Human gates
How much of the process has to stop and wait for a person. Every approval point is another screen, another state to hold, another thing to test — and it is the part we will not cut to save you money.
Data cleanup
What shape the existing records are in. A tidy vendor list is a morning's work. A decade of spreadsheets where the same company is spelled three ways is a project of its own, and we would rather say so up front.

If you want to see how a couple of these play out in practice, the long version is written up in the field notes: work order automation from intake to paid, and putting an AI on the front desk without breaking HIPAA.

Ask for a quote

Tell us how the
work reaches you today

Five minutes of typing is enough. Rough is fine — we are looking for the shape of the operation, not a specification.

Tom reads every one of these himself and replies within one business day — an actual reply about your operation, not a drip sequence, and nobody else calls you afterwards. Please keep patient information, protected health information and anything else confidential out of this form; there is a proper channel for that once a BAA is signed. What you send here is used to answer you and nothing else — see the privacy policy.

Or skip the form

Three other ways to start

Book the call directly

Pick a slot on the calendar and skip the back and forth. Thirty minutes, camera optional, no deck.

Open the calendar

Email instead

If it is easier to just write a paragraph, write a paragraph. Forward the thread that is annoying you if that says it better.

tom@saida.us

Call and talk it through

A real phone number that reaches Tom. If you get voicemail, leave one — it comes back the same day.

(610) 246-7969
Before you ask

The five questions
everybody asks first

Still deciding what to ask for? Read what each system actually does on the services page, or see how we think about this work in the field notes.