A Fixed Scope,
A Fixed Price,
a Shipped Product.
A fixed-price project from KodeWolfez takes an enterprise AI initiative with a defined finish line, locks the architecture and the single budget number in writing, and delivers it to production. You review verifiable milestones and watch weekly code demos. We carry the engineering team, the delivery timeline, and 100% of the budget overrun risk.
"You approve the scope and the milestone criteria up front. Nothing is invoiced until code is merged and verified in your sandbox."
What is an enterprise
fixed-price AI project?
A fixed-price project is built with a documented scope, an agreed flat price, and a strict finish line. We write down what will be delivered, what it will cost, and when it will ship before any code is written. If our estimate was wrong, the overrun is our problem — not a ballooned invoice.
The Time & Materials Squeeze
Traditional dev shops sell you engineering hours. When models hallucinate, prompt chains break, or integration takes double the projected time, your invoice grows. The agency makes more money when things go wrong.
- ✕ Open-ended hourly burn with zero completion guarantees
- ✕ Risk is pushed 100% onto client balance sheet
- ✕ Senior devs pitch the deal; junior contractors write the prompts
- ✕ Endless "discovery sprints" with no working production artifact
Milestone-Gated Determinism
We define clear inputs, outputs, schemas, and test criteria. If building the RAG pipeline or fine-tuning the model takes 120 extra engineering hours to hit the latency target, you don't pay a cent extra.
- ✓ Single locked number approved by leadership in one meeting
- ✓ Overruns are absorbed 100% by KodeWolfez — not billed as change orders
- ✓ Senior engineers only: specialists in LangGraph, vLLM, and LlamaIndex
- ✓ Full IP, VPC code, and weights transferred with 30-day post-launch warranty
Which model fits
the work ahead?
Fixed-price works when the project has a clear finish line. If your requirements are exploratory R&D with moving targets, an agile pod is honest. When the objective is clear, a fixed-price project shields you from budget risk.
| Operational Factor | Staff Augmentation | Agile AI Pod |
Fixed-Price Project
RECOMMENDED
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|---|---|---|---|
| Team Composition | Individual engineers you add to staff | Cross-functional team with a lead | System-managed senior project team |
| Who Manages Delivery | You do, like your own team | We do, against your prioritized backlogs | We do, strictly against the signed scope |
| Scope Definition | Whatever you assign each week | A living backlog, reprioritized each sprint | Fixed and documented up front |
| When Priorities Shift | You redirect your people | Next sprint handles iteration | Formal change requests; pre-priced before work starts |
| Budget & Risk Carrier | 100% Client Risk (Hourly Burn) | Shared across multi-month engagement | 100% KodeWolfez Risk (Overruns absorbed by us) |
| Pricing Mechanism | Monthly rate per engineer | Monthly rate per pod, month to month | Fixed price tied to tangible demo milestones |
Unsure which model fits? If your scope is exploratory R&D with unknown endpoints, we will honestly tell you to hire an agile pod before taking your deposit.
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When is a fixed-price project
the right move?
Select an engagement profile that matches your corporate reality. If three or more apply, a fixed-price milestone contract is the highest-leverage route.
Scope is Clear & Defined
You know the system inputs, the expected outputs, and the third-party integrations. The scope is unlikely to undergo radical changes mid-build.
Single Board / CFO Approval
You need one exact, deterministic number that executive leadership or your CFO can approve in a single meeting without surprise overage requests.
One-Off Build with a Finish Line
A specific mission: an enterprise customer support bot, a regulatory RAG tool, an internal copilot, or an MVP to unlock a Series A round.
Zero Bandwidth to Babysit Devs
Nobody on your internal team has 20 hours a week to run daily standups, review PRs, and manage backlog tickets. You want turnkey delivery.
Strict Hard Deadline
There is a firm milestone attached: a product launch keynote, a demo day, an executive summit, or an investor board presentation.
Enterprise Procurement & SOW
Compliance or enterprise vendor onboarding demands an exhaustive Statement of Work, fixed cost gates, and formal mutual NDAs upfront.
What do teams build
for a fixed price?
Chatbots & Intelligent Assistants
Omnichannel customer service bots with human handoff, structured actions, and strict safety guardrails. Deployed across WhatsApp, Web, Slack, and Zendesk.
Agentic & Workflow Automation
Multi-agent swarms designed with LangGraph and CrewAI that execute end-to-end knowledge work: invoice extraction, CRM sync, cold pipeline enrichment, and automated reporting.
Knowledge & Enterprise RAG
Hybrid retrieval architectures combining sparse BM25 + dense Milvus/Pinecone indexing, semantic reranking, and citation anchors to eliminate hallucinations on private corpora.
AI Products & Full MVPs
Turnkey AI applications ready for revenue: frontend React/Next.js interface, user authentication, Stripe subscription billing, model serving backends, and telemetry observability.
You Own the Acceptance
The scope and the acceptance tests are agreed to in writing before kickoff. A milestone only counts as done when it matches every test you sign off on.
We Carry the Risk
The team, the timeline, and the budget are our problem. If the estimate was wrong, the overrun does not move the number. Your agreed price remains flat.
How do we scope & deliver
your AI system?
From technical intake to VPC production handover in five deterministic gates.
Walk Us Through The Build
A 30-minute deep technical session with an AI Systems Architect. You share the goals, stack, API constraints, and desired metrics.
Get the Scope & Price
Within 5 business days, we deliver an exhaustive architectural spec: milestones, tech stack, deliverables, and a single locked price.
Sign-Off on Milestones
You review and approve the written acceptance criteria. Each stage has objective test thresholds before any milestone invoice is due.
Weekly Production Demos
No black-box engineering. Every 7 days, we demonstrate working code, merged pull requests, and latency evaluations in your staging sandbox.
VPC Launch & Handover
Deployment to your AWS/GCP/Azure cloud, CI/CD pipeline handover, team training session, and a complimentary 30-day post-launch warranty.
What keeps a fixed-price
honest & predictable?
Fixed price only works when incentives are completely aligned. Here are the 6 structural rules embedded into every contract.
Exhaustive Architecture Spec
There are no vague expectations or handshake agreements. Everything we build is documented in technical detail before code is written, ensuring unambiguous alignment.
You Pay on Verified Outcomes
We bill only after tangible milestones are reviewed and approved. Money follows working software, not speculative hours logged on an agency timesheet.
Verifiable Working Code
A demo every seven days so that nobody is guessing or drifting. You see working software in your browser, not slides or Figma mockups.
Zero Surprise Invoices
Want to add a feature mid-flight? We scope it, price it with a written change order, and nothing begins until you formally approve. No surprise overruns at month-end.
100% Agency Liability
If a module takes longer than our lead architects estimated, the contract price does not budge. Our estimating mistake is our cost, keeping our delivery laser focused.
Guaranteed Production Stability
Bug fixes and latency tuning within the original scope are resolved free of charge during the warranty window. We don't vanish after the final invoice.
What does a fixed-price build
look like in practice?
Eona: Enterprise WhatsApp Multimodal Bot
Eona needed 24/7 customer support and delivery coordination on WhatsApp without scaling headcount. They needed to know the cost before committing to development.
A defined scope, agreed milestone acceptance tests, and weekly staging demos from a dedicated senior team. From conversation architecture to VPC launch and handoff.
Around 73% of customer queries handled autonomously by the assistant with 380ms response time. First-line support costs dropped 62% in the first 60 days.
"KodeWolfez has been instrumental in bringing SokratAI to life. Their team built advanced multi-agent systems, integrated Power BI with LLMs, and delivered a seamless exploration pipeline that exceeded our expectations. Truly appreciate the fixed milestone billing."
"These engineers were fantastic! Very affordable and worked fast. I am 100% going to work with them moving forward for updates and new projects. Highly recommended for any serious AI build where you need predictability."
Which stack do we build fixed projects in?
- • OpenAI GPT-4o / o1
- • Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet
- • Meta Llama 3.3 70B
- • DeepSeek V3 / R1
- • Mistral Large 2
- • LangChain & LangGraph
- • LlamaIndex Advanced
- • CrewAI Multi-Agent
- • Semantic Kernel
- • DSPy Optimization
- • Pinecone Enterprise
- • Milvus Distributed
- • Qdrant Vector Engine
- • pgvector (PostgreSQL)
- • Redis Hybrid Cache
- • AWS Bedrock & SageMaker
- • Azure OpenAI Service
- • Google Cloud Vertex AI
- • vLLM Self-Hosted
- • Docker & Kubernetes
Questions teams ask before
locking a fixed-price build
Ready to scope
your fixed AI build?
Tell us what you are building and any firm dates attached to it. You will get a written architectural spec, defined milestone tests, and one fixed number within five business days.