How pricing works
What you pay for, and how we get to a number
You’ll know the price before anything starts
What this costs depends on what you need, so the first call is about understanding your situation. After that you get a number in writing, and nothing begins until you’ve seen it and agreed to it.
We can explain the model now, so you know the shape of it before we speak. It also helps if you share your cost expectations early on. If what you have in mind and what the work takes are far apart, that’s much better to find out in the first conversation than the third.
It starts with a free call
Thirty minutes. You tell us what you’re dealing with, we tell you whether we can help and what it would involve. If the scope is clear enough by the end of the call, you’ll get a rough range there and then. If it isn’t, we’ll say what we need to know first.
No charge, no proposal deck, no follow-up sequence. If we’re not the right fit, we’ll say so on that call and point you somewhere better.
Then one of three shapes
You need answers
Advice, research, a check on a Czech company you’re about to sign with.
Charged by the hour, with a one hour minimum and 30-minute blocks after that. Research projects and partner checks are quoted as a fixed price once we agree what you need, so you know the number before we start.
You need setting up
Getting operational here: the entity, the address, banking, the accountant, the documents your customers will see.
This is different for every company, because it depends on your product, your obligations, and how much already exists. So we start with a paid assessment: we work out what your situation actually requires and send you a written plan with a fixed quote for the work. If you go ahead, you know the scope and the price before anyone starts.
You need us ongoing
The most common arrangement, and the one most clients end up in.
A monthly retainer with two parts:
- A fixed part for the things that happen every month whether or not you think about them. Watching your data box, receiving and reading your mail, keeping filing dates in view, coordinating with your accountant.
- A block of hours you spend on whatever that month brings. A meeting someone has to attend. A supplier to check. A batch of Czech support tickets. A document that needs fixing. Onboarding a new customer.
Three terms worth knowing up front:
Three months minimum, then month to month. The first weeks are setup, learning your business and building the file, and that isn’t billed separately. Three months makes it worth doing properly. After that you can stop whenever you like.
Unused hours carry over one month, then expire. We’d rather say that plainly than bury it. If hours rolled over forever you could bank twenty of them and spend them in a single week, which is capacity we’d have promised to somebody else.
Hours beyond the block are billed at the same kind of rate, and we’ll tell you when you’re getting close rather than after.
What the packages look like
Sizes rather than prices, since the fixed part is the same and the hours are what change.
Starter. Five hours a month. Suits a company with Czech customers or obligations but no entity here, or one where things are quiet and mostly need watching. Enough for the recurring admin plus a task or two.
Standard. Twelve hours a month. The usual choice once there’s a Czech entity, an accountant, and customers writing in. Enough for the admin, ongoing support, and a meeting or two.
Extended. Twenty-two hours a month, around five hours a week. For companies where Czechia is a real part of the business and something needs doing most weeks. Includes priority on response times.
Most clients start lighter than they expect to end up. That’s fine. Moving up a size is a conversation, not a renegotiation.
What’s free
The first call. A straight answer about whether we fit. And if the honest answer is that you don’t need us yet, you’ll get that too.
Ask us
Tell us what you’re dealing with and roughly what you had in mind. You’ll get a straight answer on both.