Pricing & Engagement

Pricing by buyer path.

Start now with self-serve products, scope a project through productized engagements, or build an enterprise partnership. From a $797 recordings purchase to a $2M+ multi-year bundle, the numbers stay visible.

Start now $797-$4,997 THEUS $1K-$1M+/yr Scope $5K-$200K Enterprise $150K-$2M+Retainers $5K-$50K/mo How we work FAQ

Warm abstract illustration of ascending tiers, suggesting a pricing ladder from self-serve to enterprise

Start now

$797-$4,997

Buy, enroll, or license a seat.

Recordings, live course access, and the AI Toolkit are for individuals and teams ready to move immediately.

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Scope a project

$5K-$200K

Turn a defined problem into a proposal.

Audits, Forethought studies, custom models, dashboards, and workflow builds use productized scopes with three alternatives.

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Enterprise partnership

$150K-$2M+

Deploy Memory, Foresight, and Decision at scale.

THEUS enterprise, Forethought licenses, deployment options, retainers, and full platform partnerships live here.

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01 · Under $5,000 · Credit card · No call required

Start now. Buy or enroll.

Self-serve education and tools for individuals or teams who want to start fast. Everything in this section can be purchased without talking to us. Returning students get 50% off.

Course Recordings

AI Course Cohort 1 Recordings

$797

one-time

All 10 Cohort 1 sessions and supporting materials, ready to watch on your schedule.

10 full session recordings
Full transcripts for every session
12 weeks of office hours notes
9 session deck PDFs
Master Datakit (12 mock report PDFs)
2 production-ready meta-prompts
Completion certificate

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AI Toolkit

Aigora AI Toolkit

$1,000

per year

A curated set of tools that turn AI from a chat box into a workflow.

Slide-maker
Image-maker
Slide-swapper
Document parser
Chart beautification
Annual updates included
Free for AI Course enrollees

Best value bundle

$1,297

one-time, saves $500

All Cohort 1 recordings plus a full year of the AI Toolkit. The fastest path to self-serve AI fluency.

Everything in Course Recordings
One year of the AI Toolkit
Saves $500 vs separate purchase
Same completion certificate
Annual toolkit updates included

Buy bundle

AI Course (Live)

AI Course, Full

$2,297

both parts, saves $497

10-week live cohort. Tuesdays 9:30-11am ET with biweekly office hours. Dozens of Fortune 500 alumni.

Part 1: AI fundamentals for insights
Part 2: Applied AI workflows
Live cohort, biweekly office hours
AI Toolkit free during course
Part 1 or 2 alone: $1,397 each

Enroll

VIP Executive Accelerator

AI Course VIP

$4,997

cohort + private sessions

Full course plus three private sessions with Dr. John Ennis on applying AI to your team's roadmap.

Everything in AI Course Full
3 private sessions with Dr. John Ennis
Custom roadmap deliverable
Direct Slack channel with the team
Priority access to new tools

Enroll VIP

02 · THEUS Solo through Enterprise · Monthly or annual

THEUS Memory platform.

THEUS is the research intelligence platform at theus.aigora.ai. Two AI assistants: Dr. Sinclair (evidence answers with citations) and Dr. Reed (simulated focus group moderator). The Solo plan is designed for individual researchers. Larger teams move into the Team, Business, and Enterprise bands below.

THEUS Solo Monthly

Month to month, cancel anytime

$1,000/ month

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THEUS Solo Annual

Best Value

Save $2,000

$10,000/ year

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Every Solo seat includes

Up to 30 documents ingested per month
Up to 1,500 pages parsed per month
Up to 500 questions to Dr. Sinclair per month
Up to 5 Deep Research tasks per month
Up to 5 Focus Group Simulations per month
Up to 10 Knowledge Supplementation runs per month
1 Knowledge Workspace

Team, Business, and Enterprise bands

Sized to your team. THEUS Team starts at 10 seats; Business adds SSO and a dedicated success engineer; Enterprise gives you unlimited seats and on-prem options.

THEUS Team

For a single research team

$75K-$150K/yr

10 to 25 seats. Pooled allowance. Shared Knowledge Workspaces. Annual contract.

10-25 seats with pooled allowance
Shared Knowledge Workspaces
Dr. Sinclair and Dr. Reed for every seat
Email and Slack support
Custom onboarding workshop

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THEUS Business

For an insights organization

$150K-$350K/yr

25 to 100 seats. SSO. Dedicated success engineer. Advanced admin controls.

25-100 seats
Single sign-on (SSO)
Dedicated success engineer
Advanced admin controls
Custom Knowledge Workspace retention
Quarterly business reviews

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THEUS Enterprise

For a global business unit

$350K-$1M+/yr

Unlimited seats. On-prem deployment available. Dedicated infrastructure. Custom SLA.

Unlimited seats
On-prem deployment available
Dedicated infrastructure
Custom SLA
Royalty-free perpetual code access
Annual model refresh included

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03 · $5K-$200K · Three-alternative pricing · 2-6 months

Scope a project.

Every productized offering is scoped against the same proposal pattern: three alternatives (Alt 1 = the focused version, Alt 2 = the standard scope, Alt 3 = the comprehensive build). 50/25/25 milestone payments with a 10 business day acceptance window. 12-month support retainer included on engagements over $75K.

Strategy & audits

The decision-quality work that frames every engagement.

Data Readiness Audit

$10K / $14K / $20K

A scored inventory of your historical research and the gaps that would block a knowledge base. 2-3 weeks.

3 weeks · Audit report

Scope this offer

AI Opportunity Assessment

$15K / $22.5K / $35K

A ranked list of AI investments for your team with ROI estimates and recommended sequencing. 4-6 weeks.

4-6 weeks · Roadmap

Scope this offer

THEUS Knowledge Workshop

$15K / $18.5K / $25K

A 2-day workshop where we ingest a slice of your historical research and demo what queryable memory looks like for your team. 3-4 weeks total.

3-4 weeks · Workshop + demo

Scope this offer

Simulation & foresight

HUSK probabilistic unfolding, synthetic consumer panels, concept space exploration.

Simulated Panel Starter Kit

$2.5K / $3.75K / $5K

A single synthetic panel run on a category you specify, with a written interpretation. Lowest-friction way to evaluate Forethought.

2 weeks · Single category

Scope this offer

Simulated Category Appraisal (Standard)

$10K / $12.5K / $15K

A full category appraisal using synthetic consumer panels with HUSK unfolding. 3D perceptual map deliverable.

4-5 weeks · One category

Scope this offer

Simulated Category Appraisal (Complex)

$15K / $20K / $25K

Multi-category or multi-region appraisal with cross-category mapping and Stage 0 spread-optimal selection.

6-8 weeks · Multi-category

Scope this offer

Concept Space Workshop

$10K / $17.5K / $25K

A workshop that builds a 3D tetrahedral concept space with four anchors of your choice, plus a live Concept Explorer instance to keep.

3 weeks · Concept Explorer

Scope this offer

Forethought Pilot Study

$65K / $80K / $100K

A full pre-fieldwork simulation run for one launch decision, including 200 synthetic panels, HUSK fitting, and a written recommendation.

10-14 weeks · Signed pattern

Scope this offer

Custom models

Fine-tuned local models. CPU-native int8 serving. Client owns the weights.

Profile-to-Notes, Single Model

$10K / $12.5K / $15K

One fine-tuned T5Gemma 2 model (forward: profile to tasting notes, or inverse: notes to profile) on your corpus. 6-week delivery.

6 weeks · 1 model

Scope this offer

Profile-to-Notes Model Pack

$25K / $30K / $35K

Forward + inverse + Gemma 4 E2B rollback + topic and sentiment classifiers. The full bidirectional stack.

10 weeks · 4 models

Scope this offer

Sensory Intelligence Platform

$40K / $50K / $60K

The Profile-to-Notes stack delivered inside a three-tab dashboard (Profiler, Chemistry, Open Ends). Includes the dashboard you keep.

12-14 weeks · Dashboard + 4 models

Scope this offer

Optimization & concept space

Spread-optimal product selection, attribute vector overlays, claim portfolio decisions.

Portfolio Coverage Sprint (TURF-style)

$25K / $50K / $75K

A TURF-style coverage analysis on your portfolio, executed with the Aigora method. Recommends a spread-optimal subset.

8 weeks · Portfolio analysis

Scope this offer

Claim Portfolio Optimization

$50K / $97.5K / $150K

A multi-objective optimization run on your claim portfolio with attribute vector overlays. Picks the spread-optimal subset for any target k.

10-14 weeks · Decision report

Scope this offer

Product Development Decision Dashboard

$55K / $77.5K / $100K

A bespoke decision dashboard for one product development workflow. Integrates simulation, optimization, and your own data.

16 weeks · Dashboard

Scope this offer

Predictive Workbench Dashboard

$55K / $77.5K / $100K

A predictive workbench that wraps your custom models in an interactive dashboard. Real-time scoring, batch upload, audit logs.

14-16 weeks · Workbench

Scope this offer

Category Intelligence Dashboard

$35K / $47.5K / $60K

Category-level dashboard combining social listening, panel data, and chemistry into one decision view.

10-12 weeks · Dashboard

Scope this offer

Copilots & custom agents

Voice, conversational, and selling agents tuned to your category and tone of voice.

Custom Copilot Agent (Small)

$20K / $30K / $40K

A custom copilot trained on your category, tone, and process. Sits inside Slack, Teams, or your internal portal.

8 weeks · Single deployment

Scope this offer

Voice Research Agent

$25K / $50K / $75K

A voice-enabled research assistant for your panel or stakeholders. Multi-turn conversational with topic-conditioned sentiment.

10 weeks · Voice agent

Scope this offer

Voice-Enabled Survey Setup

$15K / $25K / $40K

Convert one or more existing surveys into a voice-enabled flow with auto-coding and topic-sentiment output.

6-8 weeks · 1-3 surveys

Scope this offer

Inbound Qualifying Agent

$20K / $30K / $40K

An inbound qualifying agent that triages incoming requests, asks clarifying questions, and routes to the right internal team.

8 weeks · Agent

Scope this offer

Outbound Selling Agent

$30K / $50K / $75K

An outbound agent that prospects, qualifies, and books meetings in your tone. Honors your brand voice and category language.

10 weeks · Agent

Scope this offer

Internal training & productivity

Bring the AI Course on-site, generate decks, or run quick reports.

Internal Corporate Training

$10K / $12.5K / $15K + travel

A custom version of the AI Course delivered to your team. Half-day, full-day, or two-day formats with your data and case studies.

4 weeks prep · On-site

Scope this offer

AI Slide Deck Generation

$2K-$8K per deck

Production-ready dynamic slide deck built from your data. Tables, charts, narrative. Same engine Mane uses.

1-3 weeks · Per deck

Scope this offer

AI Consumer Simulation Study

$5K-$15K per study

A one-off simulation study for a specific decision. Lighter-weight than the Forethought Pilot.

2-4 weeks · Per study

Scope this offer

AI Deep Research Report

$500-$2K per report

A Deep Research report on a topic of your choice. Includes citations and a 30-minute readout if requested.

1 week · Per report

Scope this offer

Social Listening Report

$1.5K-$5K per report

A topic-conditioned social listening pass on a category, brand, or claim. Output is sentiment-per-topic, not overall affect.

1-2 weeks · Per report

Scope this offer

04 · $150K-$2M+/year · Annual contracts · SSO, on-prem, dedicated infra

Enterprise partnership.

Platform licenses and the full Aigora partnership, on annual contracts. First-time client minimum is $20,000. Enterprise onboarding fee is $10,000, waived for existing clients. THEUS Team, Business, and Enterprise seat bands are listed in the platform section above.

Forethought Enterprise License

Pre-fieldwork simulation platform

$150K-$500K

/yr

Unlimited synthetic panels. HUSK fitting at scale. Concept Explorer integration. Annual model refresh.

Unlimited synthetic consumer panels
HUSK probabilistic unfolding at scale
Concept Explorer integration
Annual model refresh
Dedicated success engineer

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Aigora Enterprise Bundle

The full platform partnership

$400K-$2M+

/yr

THEUS Enterprise + Forethought Enterprise + Custom Models + Retainer. Multi-year contract.

THEUS Enterprise (unlimited seats)
Forethought Enterprise License
Up to 4 custom models per year
Technical retainer included
Royalty-free perpetual code access
Annual model refresh included
Quarterly executive business reviews

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Deployment add-ons

On-prem or Aigora-hosted

+$15K-$60K

on-prem setup $40K-$60K · hosted cloud from $15K/yr

Add on-prem or Aigora-hosted cloud to any enterprise tier. BYO AI keys supported.

On-Prem: +$40K-$60K setup, +$25K-$40K/yr support
Aigora-Hosted Cloud: $15K-$25K/yr base + BYO AI keys
SOC 2 audit landing 2026
Currently inherits from Vercel + Neon infrastructure
Zero-Persistence Architecture by default

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05 · $5K-$50K/month · Continuous partnership · Annual or month-to-month

Retainers.

Most large engagements include a 12-month support retainer. These are the standalone options when you want continuous access to the team without committing to a new build.

Annual Support Retainer

$25K-$40K/yr

The default retainer attached to most large engagements. Maintenance, bug fixes, and minor improvements for a deployed platform or model.

Advisory Retainer (Executive)

$5K-$15K/mo

Monthly executive advisory with Dr. John Ennis. AI strategy, roadmap input, and direct access for your insights leadership. Pairs well with VIP course.

Technical Retainer

$10K-$25K/mo

Direct access to the engineering team. Pre-allocated hours each month for feature requests, integration work, and pipeline tuning.

Managed Services

$15K-$50K/mo

We run your platform for you. Includes monitoring, updates, model retraining, and end-user support. The fullest service tier.

Annual Model Refresh

$15K-$35K/yr per model

Yearly refresh of one or more custom models on your latest data. Includes validation report and rollback model. Required to keep custom model performance current.

Copilot Support Retainer

$5K/mo

Light-touch monthly retainer for a deployed copilot agent. Prompt tuning, light bug fixes, monthly performance report.

06 · Sales process patterns from real proposals

How pricing works.

Calibrated against a portfolio of signed proposals. The patterns below apply to every engagement over $5K. Under $5K is self-serve via the storefront.

Three-alternative pricing

Every scoped proposal has three alternatives. Alt 1 is 60-65% of Alt 3. Alt 2 is 75-82% of Alt 3. Alt 3 is the comprehensive build.

50/25/25 payments

Milestone-based payments: 50% on signature, 25% at midpoint deliverable, 25% on final acceptance.

10-day acceptance

Ten business day acceptance window per milestone. Auto-accepts on day 11 if no feedback. Keeps the cadence honest.

12-month retainer

A 12-month support retainer is included in 4 of 5 large proposals. You keep the team that built it, on call, for a year.

Royalty-free code

Every engagement includes royalty-free perpetual code access for the client. You keep what we build.

First-time minimum

First-time clients have a $20,000 minimum. Can bundle services to hit it. Existing clients can engage at any size.

Volume discount

10% off after 3+ projects in a 12-month window. Applies to all subsequent projects until the rolling window resets.

Net-30 invoice

Under $5K is credit card via the storefront. $5K+ is invoice net-30. Wire, ACH, and check accepted.

The thinking behind the numbers

Why three alternatives

Every productized engagement comes with three options. This isn't upselling. It's scope discipline. Alt 1 is typically the focused version: the core deliverable, delivered well, at a price that clears most procurement hurdles. Alt 3 is the comprehensive version: deeper analysis, more data ingested, a more refined output, or a longer support window. Alt 2 is the sensible middle.

Most of our clients choose Alt 2. That's expected. It's designed to be the right answer for most situations. But we've had clients choose Alt 1 because they have the internal expertise to build on a solid foundation, and clients choose Alt 3 because they're standing up a capability for the first time and want the depth. The choice is always yours.

How payment milestones work

For all engagements over $5,000, we invoice in three payments: 50% at project start, 25% at mid-project delivery, and 25% at final delivery. You have 10 business days to accept each deliverable. If something in the deliverable isn't right, raise it within that window and we'll address it before the next milestone payment is due.

Under $5,000: credit card payment in full at time of purchase. $5,000 and above: invoice net-30. For new clients, the first invoice sometimes requires a purchase order. We're accustomed to that process and can provide all standard documentation.

First-time client minimum

Our minimum engagement size for a new client relationship is $20,000. This isn't a revenue floor for its own sake. A useful engagement requires a real data audit, a substantive kickoff, and the kind of back-and-forth that produces something worth having. Engagements below $20K almost never have the scope to do that well.

If you have a $10K budget and a clear, bounded problem, we'll tell you honestly whether it can be scoped appropriately within that number or whether we're not the right fit at this stage. For existing clients: no minimum on subsequent projects.

No hourly billing

We don't publish hourly rates, and we don't bill by the hour. Every engagement is scoped against a specific deliverable and a specific outcome. You know what you're getting and what it costs before the work begins.

This requires more work on our side upfront. The five business days we ask for to prepare a proposal isn't a formality. It's when we're actually designing the engagement. We'd rather spend time there than have an ambiguous scope cause friction later.

Frequently Asked Questions

Payment, refunds, customization, security

What are your payment terms?

Under $5,000 is credit card via the storefront with immediate access. Engagements over $5,000 are invoiced net-30, with milestone payments of 50% on signature, 25% at midpoint, and 25% on final acceptance. We accept wire, ACH, and check.

Can I get a refund on storefront purchases?

The AI Course offers a satisfaction guarantee through the end of week 2: full refund, no questions. After week 2, refunds are pro-rated against weeks completed. Course Recordings and the AI Toolkit are non-refundable once accessed; we ship a free preview sample on request so you can evaluate before purchase.

How customizable is a productized engagement?

Every productized engagement has a fixed scope and three pricing alternatives, but the scope itself is negotiated against your specific data and category. Alt 1 is the focused version, Alt 2 is the standard scope, Alt 3 is the comprehensive build. If your situation doesn't fit any of the productized offerings, we'll quote a fully custom engagement on a separate proposal.

Who owns the code and models?

The client owns royalty-free perpetual access to all code and model weights produced in the engagement. We retain the right to use generalized methods and methodology learnings in future work, but never your data, your prompts, or your trained model weights.

What's the security posture?

SOC 2 Type II audit is in progress, landing 2026. Currently, our infrastructure inherits SOC 2 from Vercel (compute) and Neon (Postgres). Our THEUS platform uses Zero-Persistence Architecture by default: a 24-hour ephemeral cache, with durable storage only after explicit org admin opt-in. Audit logs are emitted on every workspace lifecycle event. For deeper review, request the Trust Center pack.

Do you offer on-prem deployment?

Yes. On-prem deployment is an add-on to any enterprise tier: +$40K-$60K setup and +$25K-$40K/yr support. We also offer Aigora-Hosted Cloud as a middle ground: $15K-$25K/yr base, with you supplying your own AI provider keys. Both options support BYO AI keys to keep token spend visible to your team.

How long does a typical engagement take?

Productized engagements run 2 to 6 months end-to-end. Audits and assessments are 2-6 weeks. Most full builds (a custom dashboard, a Forethought pilot, a Sensory Intelligence Platform) are 10-16 weeks. Enterprise platform partnerships are annual contracts with quarterly business reviews and milestone-based deliverables throughout the year.

Can I start with a small project before committing?

Yes. The Simulated Panel Starter Kit ($2.5K-$5K), AI Deep Research Report ($500-$2K), or AI Slide Deck Generation ($2K-$8K) are designed as low-friction entry points. First-time clients usually start with a $10K-$25K audit or assessment before scoping a larger build. The $20,000 first-time minimum can be hit through any combination of these.

Not sure where you fit?

Talk through your problem with our scoping assistant. Describe what you are trying to decide, what data you have, and the budget you are working with, and it will point you at the tier that fits.

Try the scoping assistant

Map your problem to the right tier.

Thirty minutes with Dr. John Ennis or Dr. Vanessa Rios de Souza. We'll match your problem to a productized offering, a custom proposal, or a self-serve product. No pitch deck, no sales pressure.

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