Clouditive

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Fixed-price software and engineering packages

Nine packages from USD 2,500 for 1 week, each with fixed price, duration and written scope.

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Nine time-boxes on one scale

Nine time-boxes on one scale. Bars share one scale, 0 to 4 weeks. The architect and the fractional CTO are billed monthly. The architect has no end date, and the fractional CTO has a 6-⁠month minimum. On a narrow screen the weeks run from top to bottom.
PackageDurationPrice (USD)
Cloud Cost Review1 weekUSD 2,500
CI/CD & IaC build or re-architecture2 weeksUSD 4,000
IDP Foundations2 weeksUSD 5,000
AI Agent Pilot2 weeksUSD 5,000
QA Automation Foundations2 weeksUSD 5,000
SRE / Observability Foundations2 weeksUSD 5,000
Discovery1–⁠4 weeksUSD 7,000
Architect consultingOngoing, 20 h a weekUSD 4,480 a month
Fractional CTO6-month minimum, 30 h a weekUSD 6,000 a month

Which package fits

Each package belongs to the service that delivers it. The service page explains the work and the cases behind it.

  1. Your cloud bill keeps growing and nobody can say why

    Cloud Cost Review

    • A complete backlog of the changes, so your team knows what to fix and can start.
    • A FinOps report that shows which areas to optimize and what to improve in each.
    • A clear picture of the state of all your resources: what is running and how it is set up.
    • The places where you are spending more than you need to.
    • The places where you are at the limit and need to configure better, named one by one.
    What Cloud Cost Review delivers

  2. Your pipelines or infrastructure code need building or rebuilding

    CI/CD & IaC build or re-architecture

    • Build or re-architect your CI/CD pipelines.
    • Build or re-architect your infrastructure as code.
    What CI/CD & IaC build or re-architecture delivers

  3. Your developers need an internal platform

    IDP Foundations

    • Set up and build your internal developer platform.
    • Connect the services you choose in the kickoff to it.
    • Basic views on top of it, for example the service and API catalog, deploy status, cost, image vulnerabilities and CI health, as in MPI's portal.
    What IDP Foundations delivers

  4. You want to know if an AI agent can do a real task, and what each task costs

    AI Agent Pilot

    • One AI agent working on one real use case of yours.
    • Evals that score its output on that use case.
    • Cost per task, measured.
    What AI Agent Pilot delivers

  5. Your critical flows break without anyone noticing until users do

    QA Automation Foundations

    • A Playwright suite for your 5 critical flows.
    • The suite running in your CI.
    • Accessibility checks on those flows.
    What QA Automation Foundations delivers

  6. You can't see what production is doing, or your alerts have never fired

    SRE / Observability Foundations

    • Metrics, logs and traces wired.
    • 3 SLOs defined.
    • Alerts tested until they fire, and a runbook.
    What SRE / Observability Foundations delivers

  7. You don't know yet what to build first

    Discovery

    • Understand your product end to end, or turn your idea into a backlog if there is no product yet.
    • A full roadmap: backlog, roles, critical changes and needs.
    • Daily meetings and progress reviews with your team.
    What Discovery delivers

  8. You need architecture judgment every week

    Architect consulting

    • 20 hours a week of an architect.
    • Architecture design, and hands-on building of it.
    • Consults and follow-ups with your team.
    What Architect consulting delivers

  9. You have no CTO and need someone to own the direction

    Fractional CTO

    • A technical roadmap: what gets built, in what order, and why.
    • Architecture decisions, made with your team.
    • Hiring and team review.
    • A weekly meeting with your leadership.
    What Fractional CTO delivers

Not a package

90 minutes with Mat

Mat reviews your platform, DevOps, cloud cost or AI agent architecture with you and sends a written summary within 2 business days after the session.

USD 300 90 minutes

  • 90 minutes with Mat Caniglia on the architecture of your system.
  • A review of how your platform, DevOps, cloud cost or AI agents are built today.
  • A written summary within 2 business days after the session.
  • A call on Microsoft Teams, with up to 4 people from your team.
Request the sessionWhat the session covers

No CTO and production keeps breaking?

Start with Discovery to learn what you have, then keep an architect as your technical lead, 20 hours a week.

Start with Discovery

Fixed scope or hours?

A package fits a bounded outcome. When the work is open-ended, or your team wants engineers inside it, staff augmentation bills by the hour at published rates, with a 6-⁠month minimum for hourly teams and an interview with the engineer who will do the work. Packages have no minimum term.

Fixed scope

1–⁠4weeks

  • Cloud Cost Review1 week
  • CI/CD & IaC build or re-architecture2 weeks
  • IDP Foundations2 weeks
  • AI Agent Pilot2 weeks
  • QA Automation Foundations2 weeks
  • SRE / Observability Foundations2 weeks
  • Discovery1–⁠4 weeks
  • Architect consultingOngoing, 20 h a week
  • Fractional CTO6-month minimum, 30 h a week

Hours

USD30–⁠60per hour

  • Lead / ArchitectUSD55–⁠60per hour
  • SeniorUSD45–⁠50per hour
  • MidUSD35–⁠40per hour
  • JuniorUSD30per hour

Hourly rates side by side

Frequently asked questions

What is a fixed price?

A total agreed before the work starts, for a stated scope and duration. It does not change with the hours spent.

What is the typical cost of developing software?

We don't publish market averages, so here are our own numbers. The Cloud Cost Review is USD 2,500 for 1 week, and the other fixed-price packages run USD 4,000 to 7,000. By the hour, a Senior is USD 45–⁠50. A Lead plus a Senior with AI agents, our default for a new product, is USD 16,000–⁠17,600 a month, with a 6-month minimum for hourly teams.

How much does custom software development cost in 2026?

Custom software at Clouditive costs USD 16,000–⁠17,600 a month for a Lead and a Senior (published rates, October 2026). A new product usually starts with a USD 7,000 Discovery. Discovery plus the first two months of that team is USD 39,000–⁠42,200, a worked example and not a quote. The team bills by the hour, with a 6-month minimum for hourly teams. Fixed-price packages for a single outcome start at USD 2,500.

What is the discovery phase in software development?

The first stage, where the product is understood end to end and the work is planned. Ours ends with a full roadmap: backlog, roles, critical changes and needs.

Does every package have a written scope?

Yes. All nine list what is delivered, the price and the duration, in the table on this page and on each service page.

In which language is the work delivered?

In English or Spanish, 100% of the service.

Can a package continue as hourly work?

Yes. Work after a package can continue by the hour at the published rates by seniority, or in another 2-week package. Only an hourly team has the 6-month minimum.

What happens after a Cloud Cost Review, an AI pilot or Discovery?

We implement what they find with 2-week fixed-price packages, one after another if you want, with no minimum term. The 6-month minimum applies only to hourly teams.

Mat (Matías) Caniglia, Founder and CEO

I lead every project and I interview every engineer before you meet them. Bring the problem and we'll know in 30 minutes if we fit.

We reply to every request within 1 business day. We sign an NDA before the call if you ask.

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