Plans & pricing

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You have almost certainly already paid for AI that did nothing.

A subscription here. A tool there. A consultant who left you a deck and a login and a vague feeling that you were now “doing AI.” The industry's own numbers say the rest out loud: nearly half of companies now call their AI spend a disappointment, and barely one in four ever see a return. Not because the technology fails. Because no one owned it, governed it, or tied it to how your business actually runs.

And while that sits unused, the quieter cost compounds. The enquiry that waited nine hours for a reply. The follow-up that never went out. The website that tells a serious buyer you are smaller than you are. A competitor, no better than you, simply faster, taking the client that should have been yours. One in four owners have already lost business to exactly this. None of it feels like a crisis. All of it is a tax you pay every month you wait.

You do not need another tool. You need the one thing none of them came with: an owner. Arkadia engineers how your company attracts, responds, operates and protects itself into one private system, governed by us, owned by you, with a human accountable for every part of it. Below is exactly what that is, priced in the open.

The mechanism

One system, assembled from five working parts.

"AI agency" means nothing. Here is the concrete machine. Each part is a real deliverable with a real outcome. You can buy one part, or the coordinated whole.

Presence

A site and digital footprint that makes a serious buyer trust you in seconds. Fast, search-ready, unmistakably premium. The visible proof that you are who you say you are.

Acquisition

A quiet engine that finds, qualifies and routes the right demand to you around the clock, connecting search, content and outreach to a pipeline you can see.

Automation

The repetitive hours your team loses, handed to controlled systems that never go off-script. Onboarding, reporting, proposals, triage, follow-up, wired and documented.

Defense

The single incident that could embarrass you, prevented. Public-facing systems hardened, access controlled, AI workflows governed. Defensive only, always.

Engineering

Senior technical leadership and custom software on demand. The judgment of a world-class team, without the cost or risk of building one.

Coordinated, not scattered.

Bought separately, these are five services. Governed as one system, they compound: presence feeds acquisition, acquisition feeds automation, defense protects all of it.

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Add it up

What it would cost to build this yourself.

To assemble the same machine in-house, you would hire, manage and pay for each of these separately. Here is what the market charges for each part, and what you would carry every year:

  • A senior in-house technologist to own the systems and the judgment$180,000+/yr
  • A premium website & brand presence built to convert serious buyers$15,000+
  • An AI client-acquisition system wired to your pipeline$30,000+
  • Workflow automation built, governed and documented$40,000+
  • Defensive security & monitoring for everything public-facing$25,000+/yr
  • Positioning, messaging & executive copy that holds up$12,000+
  • Strategy, oversight, reporting & total discretionpriceless
Assembled yourself, year one $300,000+ from $500/month with Arkadia

You are not paying for salaries, recruiting, or the risk of building a team that may not work. You are buying the finished system, run by one partner, starting at the price of a single junior tool subscription. That gap is the entire point.

Figures are illustrative market ranges for assembling each function independently in year one. Your actual scope and pricing are shown plainly in the plans below.

Founding cohort, Europe

We are choosing our first European clients right now. That is the rare moment.

Arkadia is new on purpose. We will build our name the way we build everything else, on real results and never on borrowed hype. So instead of inflated promises, we are opening a small founding cohort across the UK, Switzerland, Germany, France, Monaco and the wider European market, at preferential founding terms.

The exchange is simple and quiet: founding clients receive our full attention and founding pricing, and in return allow us to share the results privately, as a reference, once they speak for themselves. No logos paraded, no fabricated testimonials. Just early proof, earned.

Founding terms apply to the engagements below for a limited number of firms this quarter. When the cohort is full, pricing returns to standard. See the engagements →

The six engagements

Choose your starting point. Begin in minutes.

Every price is shown. Monthly engagements are billed monthly and can be cancelled anytime. One-time engagements are exactly that. Not sure which fits? The guide below this section decides for you in three questions.

Foundation
$3,000/ month

Your presence and authority, built and kept current. For firms that need to look as credible as they are, before chasing volume.

  • Premium website or rebuild
  • Positioning, messaging & executive copy
  • Technical & AI-search visibility
  • Ongoing content & maintenance
  • Monthly reporting
Start Foundation
Operating Partner
$15,000/ month

We become your embedded digital function. For firms that want the whole system owned, run and advanced by one partner.

  • Everything in Growth
  • Defensive cyber protection
  • CTO-as-a-Service & custom software
  • Priority delivery & direct line
  • Quarterly strategy & roadmap
Start Operating Partner

Prefer to start smaller

AI Opportunity Snapshot $490 one-time A fast, paid diagnostic: where leverage and exposure actually are, prioritised. Delivered in days. Get the snapshot
Starter $500 / month A light, ongoing foothold: priorities, guidance and small builds, month to month. Cancel anytime. Start Starter
Private AI & Digital Audit $2,500 one-time The full audit: current state, opportunity map, risk review and a sequenced roadmap, with an executive readout. Get the audit

Payments are processed securely by Stripe. Monthly plans renew automatically and can be cancelled anytime from your receipt or by emailing us. Prices in USD.

Decide in three questions

Which one is for you.

I am not sure there is a real opportunity yet.

Start with the AI Opportunity Snapshot ($490) or the full Audit ($2,500). You get a clear, prioritised picture with zero commitment to anything larger. Most clients use it to decide exactly what to build next.

I know I need it, but want to start measured.

Starter ($500/mo) for a light ongoing foothold, or Foundation ($3,000/mo) if your presence is the priority. Both can be expanded the moment you see results.

I want growth, or I want it all handled.

Growth ($7,500/mo) if acquisition and automation are the priority. Operating Partner ($15,000/mo) if you want the entire digital function owned and advanced by one partner, so you can stop thinking about it.

The standard guarantee.

If the first deliverable of any engagement does not meet the standard we set together, we rework it until it does, or you do not pay for it. Monthly engagements have no lock-in: cancel anytime and you keep everything built to that point, documented and yours.

We can promise the standard of the work and the discretion around it. We do not promise specific financial outcomes, and we will never fabricate proof. That restraint is exactly why the firms we serve trust us with what matters.

What good looks like

The outcomes we build toward.

Representative targets of a well-run engagement. Your results depend on your starting point and scope.

Hours back
Repetitive work moved off your team and into governed automations.
Minutes, not hours
Inbound enquiries acknowledged and routed the moment they arrive.
One system
Presence, acquisition, operations and defense, governed from a single point of control.

These describe the design intent of each engagement, not a guarantee of figures. Client references and selected work are shared privately, under approval.

The real objections

What is actually stopping you, answered.

“We tried AI already and it was a disappointment.”

You are in the majority. Nearly half of companies now call their AI spend a disappointment, and only about one in four ever see a return. It almost never fails on the technology. It fails because the tools were scattered, unowned, and never tied to how the business actually runs. Arkadia inverts that: we map the workflow first, build one governed system, and put a human accountable for every part of it. You are not buying another tool. You are buying the operating model that finally makes it pay.

“Will this make our business feel less personal?”

This is the fear most owners name out loud, and it is the right one. We automate the friction, never the relationship. The repetitive work disappears; the judgment, taste and human contact your clients pay for stay exactly where they are. Done correctly, your clients feel faster, sharper service from you, not a chatbot wearing your logo.

“What if it embarrasses us or damages our reputation?”

Reputation is the centre of how we build, not an afterthought. Nothing autonomous touches a client unchecked. Every workflow has human oversight, every public-facing system is hardened, and we never fabricate proof or make claims that are not true. For firms whose entire value is trust, that restraint is the point.

“Our team will just resist another tool.”

They resist tools that are imposed on them and make their job stranger. Roughly eight in ten employees quietly avoid forced AI. We do the opposite: we remove the work your people hate and leave the decisions to them. When the system serves your team instead of policing it, adoption stops being a fight.

“How is this different from the agency that overpromised last time?”

We make no income guarantees and we fabricate no proof. We guarantee two things only: the standard of the work and the discretion around it. If the first deliverable of any engagement does not meet the standard we set together, we rework it until it does or you do not pay for it. Agencies that overpromise cannot offer that. We can.

“We are quietly falling behind and we know it.”

One in four owners have already lost business to a competitor who was simply faster, not better. Every month of “almost” is ground you do not get back. The entire system is built to close that gap quietly and fast: presence that earns trust in seconds, acquisition that runs while you sleep, operations that stop leaking hours.

“Is our data, and our clients' data, safe?”

Yes, by design. Access control, data boundaries and audit trails on every system. No advertising trackers. Nothing sold, ever. We work with a small number of clients precisely so confidentiality is never a numbers game.

“We do not have time to manage another thing.”

You will not. We carry strategy, build, testing, deployment and iteration. You keep oversight and control; we carry the execution. After you choose a plan, the next move is ours, not yours.

“Do we have to get on a sales call first?”

No. Everything you need to decide is on this page, on purpose. Choose an engagement and begin, or reply to any of our emails and a real person answers, usually within one business day. No pressure, no funnel games.

“What does it really cost, and can we stop?”

Every price is shown above, in full, in USD. Payments are processed securely by Stripe and you receive a proper invoice. Monthly engagements renew automatically and you can cancel anytime with no penalty, keeping everything built to that point.

You have read the whole page. You already know.

Choose the engagement that fits and begin today, quietly and precisely, on the standard you came here for.

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