Start with a Blueprint. Scale the colony to match your ambition.
ANTS isn't priced like a one-off project because the work doesn't stop at launch. Every engagement starts with a scoped assessment, then moves into a 12-month retainer sized to how much of the business you want covered. A colony that matters to your revenue, your customers, and your risk exposure deserves a real commitment on both sides.
Nothing gets built before it's scoped.
Too many AI consultancies shoehorn in new tools without adapting to what's already working. The Blueprint exists so that doesn't happen here.
The Colony Blueprint
A full assessment of the tools, workflows, and people you already have — across sales, finance, or operations — plus a prioritized roadmap of which workers to deploy first and why. Includes an inventory of any agents already running in your stack, the access it holds, and where it's exposed.
One retainer. A colony that builds, runs, and governs your agents like infrastructure.
Every tier includes build, weekly tuning, uptime monitoring, incident response, governance and reporting. What changes is how much of the business gets covered and how fast.
Outpost
- 3–4 workers live in the first 30 days
- 1 new worker built every month after
- Weekly tuning based on live data
- Uptime monitoring & incident response
- Monthly Colony Report
- Direct Slack channel to your ANTS team
Colony
- 8–10 workers live in the first 60 days
- 2 new workers built every month after
- Priority tuning & faster response times
- Full worker inventory, access control & audit trail
- Monthly Colony Report + exec review
- Direct Slack channel to your ANTS team
Supercolony
- 15+ workers live in the first 90 days
- 3 new workers built every month after
- Dedicated pod & priority SLA
- Advanced governance, security & compliance
- Weekly exec reporting
- Direct Slack channel to your ANTS team
Multi-brand, multi-region, or heavily regulated?
Custom scope, custom governance, and a dedicated AI ops team built around your structure.
Independent colonies that stop competing and start cooperating.
A supercolony, in nature, is what happens when independent colonies stop competing and start cooperating across a shared territory — some span hundreds of miles. Argentine ants are the famous case. That's the idea at this tier: every worker in every department, working from what the others have already learned.
Full tier comparison
Worker counts are targets set during the Blueprint, not hard caps. What matters more is which parts of the business get covered and how quickly.
| Outpost · $5,000/mo | Colony · $9,500/mo | Supercolony · $17,000/mo | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Workers live at start | 3–4 in first 30 days | 8–10 in first 60 days | 15+ in first 90 days |
| New workers per month | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Tuning cadence | Weekly, based on live data | Weekly, priority queue | Weekly, dedicated pod |
| Uptime monitoring & incident response | Included | Included, faster response | Included, priority SLA |
| Worker inventory & access control | Inventory | Full inventory, access control & audit trail | Advanced governance, security & compliance |
| Reporting | Monthly Colony Report | Monthly Colony Report + exec review | Weekly exec reporting |
| Direct Slack channel | Included | Included | Included, dedicated pod |
| Term | 12 months | 12 months | 12 months |
All tiers run on a 12-month term and require a Blueprint first.
The things people actually ask
More in the full FAQ, including security, governance and what happens to your agents if the engagement ends.
Why a 12-month term instead of month-to-month?
Because the work doesn't pay off in 30 days. The first month is deployment. The value compounds in months three through twelve, as workers get tuned against live performance data and the colony adapts to how your business actually changes.
A month-to-month arrangement would let either of us walk away before the work has had time to prove itself, which would push us toward quick wins over the things that actually move revenue. A colony that matters to your revenue, your customers, and your risk exposure deserves a real commitment on both sides.
Is the Blueprint fee refundable, or credited?
Credited, not refunded. The Blueprint is $9,500 one-time, and 50% is credited toward year one if you sign a retainer. The deliverable is yours to keep either way, including if you decide ANTS isn't the right fit and take the roadmap to someone else.
Can I move between tiers?
Yes. Moving up mid-term is straightforward and takes effect the following month. Moving down is reviewed case by case, because the agent count and governance scope in the higher tiers usually can't be unwound cleanly without turning agents off.
What happens if we want out before the 12 months are up?
We look at it case by case rather than enforcing a rigid penalty. If the work isn't landing, we'd rather understand why than hold you to a contract. Whatever gets agreed is confirmed in writing. See the Terms for the formal position.
Are there costs beyond the retainer?
The retainer covers ANTS' work: building, tuning, monitoring, governing and reporting. It does not cover third-party costs you already own or would need to add, such as your CRM seats, enrichment data, sending infrastructure, or model API usage where an agent runs against your own account. Those get identified and estimated during the Blueprint so there are no surprises.
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