Clear starting points. Scope defined before execution.
Every engagement is scoped and approved before work starts, so the starting price is a starting point, not a guess you find out about later.
AI Solutions Architecture
- Best for
- businesses whose requirement spans multiple systems, vendors, or AI technologies.
- Business problem
- The business problem is real, but what to build, what to buy, and how it all connects is not yet known.
- What you receive
- Discovery, technology and vendor evaluation, a build/buy/hybrid recommendation, a written solution and integration architecture, an implementation roadmap, and technical leadership through production where you want it.
- What affects the final price
- Project complexity, the systems and integrations involved, implementation requirements, and how far through execution TechFortress leads.
from $7,500
Founding Client rate: $5,000
Third-party software, licensing, usage fees, and substantial custom development may be additional.
- Written solution and integration architecture
- Build / buy / hybrid recommendation with reasoning
- Phased implementation roadmap
- Acceptance criteria and production-readiness review
- Approval gate before any build; founder review before release
AI Voice Agent
- Best for
- businesses that miss calls after hours, during peak times, or while the team is on a job.
- Business problem
- Calls reach voicemail, and most of those callers don't call back.
- What you receive
- A voice agent answering your line: handling common questions, qualifying the caller, routing, scheduling where your systems allow, and escalating to a person when it can't help.
- What affects the final price
- Call volume, how many services and locations the agent has to know, and what it has to integrate with.
from $2,000 setup + $895/month
Founding Client rate: $1,500 setup + $695/month
- Configured and tested voice agent
- Call transcripts and summaries
- Monthly performance report
- Approved escalation rules
Intelligent Website
- Best for
- businesses whose website isn't producing leads.
- Business problem
- The site looks acceptable but gives visitors no clear reason or path to act.
- What you receive
- A conversion-focused site built around the one action you want a visitor to take, with real imagery, mobile-first pages, hosting, and basic SEO.
- What affects the final price
- Page count, how much content and imagery already exists, and what the site has to integrate with.
from $6,000
Founding Client rate: $4,500
- Up to 8 pages
- Conversion-focused structure
- Real imagery, not stock
- Hosting and basic SEO
- Live preview review before launch
Executive Presentation
- Best for
- executives with a board, investor, or leadership presentation.
- Business problem
- A strong recommendation loses the room because the message and visuals make the audience work.
- What you receive
- Message architecture built around the decision the deck must drive, executive-level visual communication, production, and a quality-control pass.
- What affects the final price
- How much of the argument and content already exists, and how much original research is required.
from $3,500
Founding Client rate: $2,500
- Up to 15 slides
- Editable source file
- PDF export
- Speaker notes
- Revisions within scope
Social Media Video Creation
- Best for
- businesses that need branded short-form video for Reels, TikTok, Shorts, LinkedIn, or paid social.
- Business problem
- The audience watches video on a phone, and a brand showing up with static posts gets scrolled past.
- What you receive
- A finished branded short-form video: creative direction, AI-enabled production, professional editing, sound, motion, captions, human quality control, and platform-ready versions.
- What affects the final price
- Length, how many platform versions, how much existing footage or brand material there is, and whether it is one video or a campaign.
from $1,500 per video
Founding Client rate: $1,250
Multi-video campaigns and ongoing content programs available by custom scope.
- One finished video, in each agreed platform format
- Captions and on-screen text where the platform calls for them
- Music and source assets documented
- One structured revision round within scope
- Founder review before delivery
Founding Client rates
A Founding Client rate stays open on a service until that service has its first published result, then it closes. See the Founding Client Program.
Fit
Probably not the right fit if…
TechFortress is probably not the right fit if your primary requirement is the lowest-cost website, template-quality slides, a basic chatbot, or commodity AI output.
The alternatives
What else you could do with this problem
| Option | What it's good at | What it asks of you |
|---|---|---|
| Build internally | High control and institutional knowledge that stays with you. | Requires internal capacity, expertise, management attention, and ongoing ownership. |
| Traditional agency or consultancy | Team-based delivery, appropriate when an engagement needs broad organizational coverage. | You are buying a team and the coordination that comes with one. |
| DIY AI tools | Low-cost experimentation, immediately available. | You define, manage, validate, integrate, and own the work. |
| TechFortress | Founder-led judgment with AI-scaled execution, approval gates, and controlled scope. | Accountable delivery through one operator — which is a fit for defined work, not for broad organizational programmes. |
Questions about price
The objections worth answering
- Why not just use ChatGPT or Claude myself?
- You can, and for plenty of tasks you should. What a general-purpose AI tool doesn't do is pick which problem is worth solving, turn that into requirements precise enough to build against, integrate the result with the systems you already run, validate what comes back, or stand behind it afterward. That work is the engagement; the model is one tool inside it.
- Why is this more expensive than a freelancer or a commodity AI service?
- Because you're buying the decisions, not just the output — which problem to solve, what the scope should and shouldn't include, what the risks are, and whether the delivered work actually holds up. Cheaper options can be the right call when the requirement is already defined and the standard is straightforward. When it isn't, the cost usually reappears as rework.
- How do I know AI is even the right answer here?
- That's what the Opportunity Brief is for. It can and does recommend a non-AI approach, or further discovery, when that's the honest read. TechFortress does not recommend AI where another approach fits better.
- Who is actually accountable for the work?
- Steve Dumont, the founder — for strategic oversight and for final quality control on every deliverable. AI increases execution leverage; it does not move accountability anywhere else.