Published rates
What things cost
Most firms make you sit through two meetings to learn a number. Here are ours. Honest ranges, not bait — and at the bottom, what moves a project up or down within a band.
Consulting & fractional leadership — Mohsin Shah, personally
| Service | Rate | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Fractional CTO / Head of Engineering | £800/day | Typically 1–4 days a month. Strategy, hiring, architecture, vendor management. |
| Architecture / AWS review | £2,400 fixed | Two weeks part-time; written report and prioritised plan. |
| Technical due diligence | £2,950 fixed | For acquisitions and investments; report within 10 business days. |
| Ad-hoc advisory day | £950/day | Single days, short notice. |
UK market for this seniority runs roughly £900–£1,400/day. We price below that range deliberately while we build the named-client base — early clients get the early price.
Blended delivery — how most projects run
| Configuration | Rate | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Delivery pod | £6,700 / sprint | UK technical lead (architecture, review, your point of contact) + 2 senior engineers full-time + QA. Sprints are 2 weeks. |
| Larger pod | £9,800 / sprint | As above with 3 engineers and dedicated QA. |
| Single senior engineer | £2,450 / sprint | For steady, well-defined workstreams, with light-touch UK oversight. |
A comparable UK-agency pod bills £25,000–£40,000 per sprint. Our delivery engineers are senior members of our global delivery team — working outside the UK, led from inside it — which is how the same fortnight of senior work lands at £6,700 with UK leadership included. That's the business model in one sentence, because you'd work it out anyway and we'd rather be the ones who told you.
Typical UK agency pod
£25–40k / sprint
CloudMSD delivery pod
£6,700 / sprint
Fixed-price offers
| Offer | Price | Timeline |
|---|---|---|
| Discovery Sprint | £2,400 | 2 weeks — workshop, spec, architecture, prototype, fixed build quote |
| AI assistant on your own data | from £5,500 | 3–6 weeks |
| Workflow automation build | from £3,800 | 2–5 weeks |
| MVP | from £20,000 | 6 weeks |
| Legacy stabilisation package | from £3,800 | 2–4 weeks |
| Support onboarding review | from £1,000 | 2 weeks, then retainer |
Essentials
£400 /month
1 day of engineering time · monitoring · monthly patching · verified backups · next-business-day critical response.
Standard
£800 /month
2.5 days · 4-hour critical response · quarterly improvement review · unused time rolls over one month.
Priority
£1,650 /month
5 days · 2-hour critical response, 7 days a week · 24/7 monitoring · weekly patching.
No long lock-in on any tier — 30 days' notice. Critical means your system is down or losing you money.
A worked example
Ravens North Investment Limited
A UK supported-accommodation provider was running a growing portfolio on spreadsheets and memory. We built them a single operations platform: rooms, tenants and tenancies in one place; monthly rent tracking with Universal Credit and council payment workflows; payment logging with batch reconciliation; maintenance, inspections and compliance with automated reminders; and dashboards that show this month's position at a glance.
The result: around 50 hours a week saved on tenant management, and rent arrears down 30%. Projects of this shape typically run £6,000–£12,000 over 4–6 weeks.
How to read these numbers
What pushes a project to the top of its band: payments or anything regulated; integrations with systems that fight back; messy data migration; many user roles. What keeps it at the bottom: one sharp workflow, clean data, and a decision-maker who answers questions inside a day.
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