Pricing
Pricing
Five ways to run Creytix — from a free toolbelt to a fully managed Done-For-You tier.
Flat pricing. No token meter.
Replaces $1,200+/mo of separate tools.
Pricing tiers
Free
Toolbelt
Free business tools, a live site preview, and limited AI — enough to see what Creytix does before you commit.
- Free business tools, no card required
- 1 site preview
- Limited AI
Launch
Your first live site
A live site with hosting, basic SEO, a steady content cadence, and email — everything a small business needs to be found online.
- Site + hosting
- Basic SEO
- 30 posts/mo
- Takumi on request
Business OS
Most complete
Build + Be Found + Systemize, all the way — the full SEO / AI-visibility loop, a content pipeline, invoicing, agents, and Takumi turning your repeated work into tools you own.
- Full SEO + AI-visibility (GEO) loop
- Content pipeline
- Invoicing
- Agents
- Takumi by Creytix, included
Agency / White-label
Run Creytix under your own brand
Run Creytix under your own brand for clients — the agency and white-label layer.
- White-label the platform
- Multi-client workspace
- Agency billing
Done-For-You
We operate Creytix for you
We operate Creytix for you — our own team runs the platform on your behalf, end to end.
- We operate Creytix for you
- Fully managed setup + ongoing operation
- Priority support
The math
The receipts
What the fragmented stack actually costs, before anyone has connected any of it together.
| Line item | Typical cost |
|---|---|
| Site / app builder tools | $25–100/mo |
| Content stack (Canva, Jasper, Buffer…) | $145–185/mo |
| SEO / GEO tools (Semrush, Profound…) | $600–1,500/mo |
| Back-office (QuickBooks, Gusto…) | $425–465/mo |
| Separate-tools total | $1,200–2,200/mo |
| Creytix Business OS | $199/mo |
Why flat pricing is possible for us and not for them
Creytix routes AI through its own local, free-first model layer instead of metering every call through a third-party API. That is the actual mechanism behind “flat price, no token meter” — not a subsidised intro rate, a different cost structure.
Done-For-You
Or hire someone to do it
“AI Agent Manager” is one of 2026’s fastest-growing job titles — someone who runs a team of AI agents day to day instead of doing the work by hand. Here is what that costs.
| Hire this yourself | /year | /month |
|---|---|---|
| AI Agent Manager (average) | $103,178 | $8,598 |
| AI Agent Manager (senior, 90th pct) | $175,000 | $14,583 |
| Marketing Operations Manager | $112,717 | $9,393 |
| Creytix Done-For-You | — | $750–1,500 |
Even at the low end, hiring the role yourself runs 3–6× what Done-For-You costs — before payroll tax, benefits, onboarding, or turnover.
Salary figures: ZipRecruiter and Glassdoor, August 2026.
Forward Deploy
Or we send you an engineer
Takumi can read anything about your business that already lives in a system — your site, your analytics, your orders, your competitors. That is also its ceiling.
For most businesses, the expensive part isn’t in any system. It’s on a clipboard, in a group text, in a spreadsheet one person maintains, or in the owner’s head. So we send someone to go and see it.
A forward deployed engineer works inside your business, maps how it actually runs, builds the tools that remove the repeated work, trains your people to run them — and then leaves.
Where this comes from. Palantir invented the role, and OpenAI, Anthropic and AWS all hire for it now: instead of selling software and hoping it gets adopted, you embed an engineer in the customer’s building until it actually works. It’s the most effective model in enterprise software and it has always been priced for the Fortune 500 — engagements start around $50,000 and run past $200,000, because one senior engineer does every part of it by hand.
We can offer it to a business your size for one reason: Takumi does the building. The engineer does the part that has to be human — watching the real work, deciding what matters, and teaching your team. That’s roughly a fifth of the labor, so it’s roughly a fifth of the price.
Hiring an AI Agent Manager
$103,178/yr
≈ $8,598/month, before benefits, before ramp, before they know your business
Embedded Forward Deploy
$9,000/mo
An engineer, the platform, and the tools — and they leave you the tools
Deploy Sprint
$7,500 once
Less than one month of that salary, and you keep the process map either way
Three ways to run it
Deploy Sprint
Find out what's actually costing you
$7,500one-time
- Duration
- 2 weeks
- On site
- Remote + 1 day on site
The smallest honest version of the engagement. An engineer maps how your business actually runs, prices the work that repeats, and ships one tool before they leave.
- Process Map — every step, how often, how many minutes, what it costs you
- Systemization Plan — ranked by hours returned per dollar
- One working tool, in production, that you own
- Fee credited in full against a Forward Deploy engagement if you upgrade within 30 days
Best for: You suspect you're losing hours somewhere and want it measured, not guessed.
Forward Deploy
The full engagement
$24,000total
- Duration
- 8 weeks
- On site
- 1 day per week on site
An engineer embedded in your business for two months. They map it, build against your real data, put it in production, and train your people to run it without them.
- Everything in Deploy Sprint
- 3–5 tools built on your real data and running in production
- Your staff trained — a named person on your team runs it unaided before we close
- Handoff Pack — runbook, docs, named owner, escalation path
Best for: You know the problem is real and you want it gone, not documented.
Embedded
A named engineer, ongoing
From $9,000/month
- Duration
- Rolling, 3-month minimum
- On site
- Fixed days per month
The same engineer stays. Fixed days each month against whatever the business needs next — new processes, new tools, new people to train.
- A named engineer with fixed monthly days
- Continuous mapping and tooling as the business changes
- Monthly reporting on hours returned
- Cancel with 30 days' notice — nothing here holds you hostage
Best for: The business keeps changing faster than a fixed engagement can cover.
Where we can actually come
Within about a two-hour drive, an engineer is on site one day a week for the whole engagement. Further out, we run a full week on site at the start — the part that genuinely needs someone in the building — then weekly remote with return visits at the gates. Same price either way; we'll tell you which one you are on the first call.
What actually happens
Week 1–2
1. We watch
An engineer sits with the people doing the work. Not a survey — actual observation of the actual process, including the parts nobody wrote down.
Week 2–3
2. We price it
Every repeated step gets a number: how often, how long, what it costs. You get told which work is worth automating and, more usefully, which isn't.
Week 3–6
3. We build
Takumi does most of the building; the engineer directs it and reviews every line. Tools run against your real data, not a sample.
Week 6–8
4. We train and leave
Someone on your team runs it unaided while we watch. That's the exit condition — not a document, a person who can do it.
Why this isn’t consulting
You get code, not a deck
Consultants deliver a recommendation. A forward deployed engineer delivers working software in your environment and is accountable for it after it ships.
It's designed to end
The engagement has a fixed exit: your people running your tools without us. We're not trying to become a line item you can't remove.
You own what we leave
Own Your Algorithm applies here too — export the code, see every decision, take it with you if you go.
The tools get better after we go
Anything we build for you that generalizes gets hardened into the Creytix catalog. The next client's engagement improves yours, and Takumi keeps running what we left behind.
We’re hiring forward deployed engineers. See the role.
Pricing FAQ
- No — that's the opposite of what it does. Takumi studies how your business actually runs, installs a deterministic tool for the work that repeats, and then leaves. It comes back on a schedule, not continuously. You're paying for the tools it leaves behind, not for it to keep running.
- Yes. Own Your Algorithm means bring your own key, see every routing decision, and export your code any time. Nothing here is designed to hold your business hostage.
- Allowances are generous by design and usage meters only apply above them — never the default experience. You'll see it coming well before it happens; there is no silent overage.
- Launch gets you built and found. Business OS gets you found by AI search too, adds the operational layer (invoicing, agents, content pipeline), and includes Takumi systemizing the work that repeats — that's the Systemize step.
- Free if you're exploring — business tools and a site preview, no card required. Launch once you want a real live site with hosting, basic SEO, content, and email. Business OS is the flagship: the full SEO / AI-visibility loop, content pipeline, invoicing, and agents, all in one flat monthly fee. Agency is for running Creytix under your own brand for clients. Done-For-You is for teams that want our own people operating the platform for them.
- Every tier is flat-rate — no token meter. Free covers free business tools plus one site preview and limited AI. Launch adds a live site, hosting, basic SEO, a 30-post/mo content cadence, and email. Business OS adds the full SEO / AI-visibility (GEO) loop, a content pipeline, invoicing, and agents. Agency / White-label wraps the whole platform in your own brand for clients. Done-For-You means our team runs Creytix for you.
- A consultant gives you a recommendation and leaves. A forward deployed engineer works inside your business, builds working software in your environment, trains your staff to run it, and stays accountable for it afterwards. Palantir invented the model and OpenAI, Anthropic and AWS all hire for it now — it's normally priced from $50,000 because one senior engineer does every part by hand. We can start at $7,500 because our agent does the building and the engineer does the part that has to be human.
- Agency / White-label is coming soon — tell us you're interested and we'll follow up when it opens. Done-For-You is available now: talk to us and we'll scope what we'd operate on your behalf, starting from $750/month.
Is Takumi an extra AI agent I'm paying to run forever?
Can I export my code and leave?
What happens if I go over the included AI allowance?
What's the difference between Launch and Business OS?
Which tier should I start with?
What's included at each tier?
What's a forward deployed engineer, and how is it different from consulting?
When does Agency open, and how do I start on Done-For-You?
Not sure which tier fits?
Tell us what you're building and we'll point you at the right tier — including whether Done-For-You makes sense.
Questions
Not sure which tier fits your team?
Tell us what you're building and we'll help you figure out whether Launch, Business OS, Agency, or Done-For-You is the right fit.
Pricing updated August 2026.