Transparent pricing.
No discovery call required to get a price.
A flat monthly subscription. One active sprint at a time. The work starts within 48 hours of your scoping call, not after a six-week proposal process.
You're not buying hours.
You're buying a shipped sprint.
Every agency will tell you they're different. Most of them charge the same way: by the hour, or by the project, with a quote that takes three weeks to produce and a contract that commits you to six months before a line of code is written.
DaaS Labs works on a flat monthly subscription. You pay one number. In return, you get one active sprint track, a focused, scoped, 48-hour-start development cycle that ships real work into your repository on a continuous cadence. No timesheets. No scope creep invoices. No surprises at the end of the month.
The subscription continues for as long as the work is moving. When it isn't, you cancel. There are no lock-in contracts, no minimum terms, and no renegotiation every time your roadmap changes.
This is the model that funded startups actually need and, the one that traditional agencies have never been willing to offer.
Find your track. Know your starting price.
Every engagement starts with a scoping call where we map your exact build to the right track. The prices below are where that conversation starts, not where it ends.
Commerce Lab
Shopify Plus development, custom checkout, and e-commerce infrastructure.
- ✓Custom Shopify theme and app development
- ✓Checkout extension and cart experience builds
- ✓Klaviyo, attribution, and third-party integrations
Dev Lab — Web Track
Full-stack web application and SaaS product development.
- ✓Next.js / React full-stack development
- ✓API design, auth, payments, and third-party integrations
- ✓Staging environment and QA gate every sprint
AI Lab
LLM integrations, RAG pipelines, and AI-native product features.
- ✓Open AI / Anthropic API integration and architecture
- ✓RAG pipeline and vector database configuration
- ✓Production-grade rate limiting, cost controls, and fallback logic
ADD-ON TRACKS
Most clients start with one primary track. These four run alongside your primary sprint when your build requires it, scoped and priced in combination at your scoping call.
Dev Lab — Mobile Track
React Native iOS and Android development.
DevOps Lab
CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure, and deployment architecture.
UI/UX Lab
Product design, UX audit, and interface development.
QA & Testing
Automated testing, regression suites, and quality gates.
Premium tiers launching Q3 2026.
Standard · Pro · Enterprise tracks with expanded sprint capacity and dedicated team options. Current clients lock in Phase 1 pricing permanently.
This is standard. Not a premium add-on.
Every DaaS Labs subscription includes the following regardless of which track you're on or what you're building. These are not selling points. They are the baseline.
Unlimited sprint requests within track scope
Submit as many requests as your roadmap requires. We prioritise and execute one active sprint at a time, no throttling, no per-ticket fees.
48-hour sprint kickoff
From the moment your scoping call ends, your first sprint brief is written and your first commit is in your repository within 48 hours. Not next week. Not after onboarding documentation.
Async daily progress updates
Every working day, your sprint lead sends a progress update directly to your communication channel of choice. You always know exactly where the work stands without scheduling a status call.
Full IP ownership from day one
Every line of code written in your sprint belongs to you the moment it's committed. No licensing, no usage restrictions, no IP held hostage at contract end.
14-day satisfaction guarantee
If the first two sprints don't demonstrate the quality and velocity we've committed to, we refund your first month. No negotiation. No case to make.
Direct sprint lead access
You communicate directly with the engineer leading your sprint, not an account manager relaying messages. The person who understands your codebase is the person you talk to.
Cancel anytime
No lock-in contracts. No minimum terms. No penalty clauses. If the engagement isn't working, you cancel. The only thing keeping you is the quality of the work.
What moves the number up from the starting price
The starting prices above range from $1,250 for a focused QA track to $4,950 for the AI Lab and that range is intentional. Specialist engineering commands a specialist price. A Shopify cart rebuild and a production-grade LLM integration with RAG pipelines are fundamentally different problems, and pricing them identically would be dishonest to both.
Within each track, three things affect where your engagement sits relative to the starting price:
Combining multiple tracks simultaneously
A founder building a Shopify store who also needs AI-powered product recommendations is running a Commerce Lab sprint and an AI Lab sprint in parallel. Combined track engagements are scoped as a single blended price, not two starting prices added together, but a scope that reflects the actual sprint capacity required across both tracks. Multi-track engagements typically run at a meaningful discount to the sum of two separate starting prices.
Technical complexity of the build
The starting price for each track reflects a well-defined, scoped build within that domain. Projects that require deep systems engineering, custom hardware communication, proprietary algorithm implementation, non-standard API architectures, or safety-critical logic are scoped above the starting price. The scoping call is where this gets established, not after three weeks of work.
Sprint velocity requirements
The standard sprint operates at a pace that ships clean, tested, production-ready code on a consistent cadence. Engagements with hard deadlines, such as investor demos, product launches, conference dates, can be scoped for accelerated delivery at an increased monthly rate.
If you're unsure where your build sits, that's exactly what the scoping call is for. We'll scope it honestly, and if the number doesn't make sense for your situation, we'll tell you before you commit to anything.
Every alternative has a trade-off. Here's what they are.
Before you book a call, it's worth understanding what you're choosing between. Every model has legitimate use cases. This is an honest comparison of the four options most funded startups consider.
| Traditional Agency | Freelancer | Dedicated Team | DaaS Labs | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Project quote | Hourly / daily | Monthly salary cost | ✓$1,250–$4,950 flat monthly |
| Time to first deliverable | 4–12 weeks | 1–2 weeks | 2–4 weeks onboarding | ✓48 hours |
| Minimum commitment | 3–6 month contracts | None | 3–6 months typical | ✓None |
| Scope flexibility | Requires renegotiation | High but unstructured | Limited by team capacity | ✓Unlimited within track |
| Accountability for outcomes | Deliverable-based | Variable | Management overhead | ✓Sprint-based with guarantee |
| Pricing transparency | Proposal required | Varies | Salary + overhead | ✓Published starting prices |
| IP ownership | Contract-dependent | Varies | Usually clean | ✓Day one, always |
| Satisfaction guarantee | Rarely | Never | Never | ✓14 days, always |
The ones founders always ask.
No. DaaS Labs runs on a month-to-month subscription with no minimum term. You can cancel at any time, we require 30 days notice to wind down the sprint cleanly and hand off everything in order.
Yes. If your build enters a planned pause, such as a fundraising sprint, a hiring period, a go-to-market phase, you can pause your subscription and resume when development picks back up. We retain the sprint context so there's no re-onboarding cost.
It means there is no per-ticket fee, no request throttling, and no cap on how many items you add to your sprint backlog. The constraint is that we work through one active sprint at a time, the team is focused on completing what's in progress before starting what's next. This is intentional: focused sprints ship faster than scattered ones.
We scope a combined engagement. Rather than two separate subscriptions running in parallel, your scoping call produces a single blended scope that covers both tracks. Most multi-track engagements run at a discount to two separate starting prices.
A retainer buys you hours. At the end of the month, whether the work moved or not, the hours are spent. A DaaS Labs subscription buys you sprint outcomes, specific, scoped deliverables that are committed to your repository on a cadence. If a sprint doesn't ship, the guarantee applies. Hours don't have a guarantee. Sprints do.
If your first two sprints don't demonstrate the quality and velocity we've committed to in your scoping call, you're entitled to a full refund of your first month's subscription. You keep everything that was built. We don't require a dispute process or an explanation. The guarantee exists because we're confident in what we deliver and because no founder should have to take a risk on a development partner they've never worked with before.
Yes and this is actually one of our most common engagement types. A non-technical founder with a clear product vision and capital to build is exactly the situation the DaaS model is designed for. Your sprint lead acts as the senior technical voice in the room: scoping what to build, sequencing the work, and shipping it while you focus on product and growth.