Transparent Pricing · No Hidden Costs

Services & Pricing

Fixed-fee project pricing with milestones and deliverables agreed upfront. No billing surprises, no scope creep charges, no junior staff on senior rates.

All engagements start with a free 30-minute scoping call — no commitment required.

Service Pricing

What Each Service Costs

Indicative pricing ranges for typical engagements. Final pricing is scoped per project after a discovery call.

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Cloud Engineering

Multi-cloud architecture, migration, cost optimisation, and enterprise reliability on AWS, Azure & GCP.

Cloud Cost Audit & Optimisation€3,000 – €8,000
Cloud Migration (per workload)€8,000 – €25,000
Full AWS/Azure Architecture Build€15,000 – €50,000
Monthly Retainer€3,500 – €8,000/mo
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DevOps & Automation

CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, GitOps, SRE practices, and platform reliability engineering.

CI/CD Pipeline Build€5,000 – €20,000
IaC Migration (Terraform)€8,000 – €25,000
Full DevOps Transformation€20,000 – €60,000
Monthly Retainer€4,000 – €10,000/mo
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AI & MLOps

Production AI pipelines, model governance, scalable training and inference platforms.

MLOps Platform Setup€12,000 – €35,000
Model Deployment Pipeline€8,000 – €20,000
Full AI Infrastructure Build€25,000 – €70,000
Monthly Retainer€5,000 – €12,000/mo
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DevSecOps

Shift-left security, automated vulnerability scanning, policy-as-code, and zero-trust architecture.

Security Audit & Remediation€5,000 – €15,000
DevSecOps Pipeline Integration€8,000 – €25,000
Zero-Trust Architecture Build€15,000 – €50,000
Monthly Retainer€3,500 – €8,000/mo
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Monitoring & Logging

Full-stack observability with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry, and anomaly detection.

Observability Stack Setup€5,000 – €15,000
Alerting & Runbook Build€3,000 – €8,000
Full Observability Platform€12,000 – €35,000
Monthly Retainer€2,500 – €6,000/mo
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Business & Data Analysis

KPI frameworks, stakeholder alignment, process optimisation, and executive reporting dashboards.

KPI Framework & Dashboard€4,000 – €12,000
Process Optimisation Audit€3,000 – €8,000
Full Data Platform Build€15,000 – €40,000
Monthly Retainer€2,500 – €6,000/mo

Market Positioning

How We Compare

Typical project cost for a mid-complexity DevOps transformation (CI/CD + Cloud + Observability). Indicative pricing in EUR.

Accenture / IBM (Big Enterprise)
ENTERPRISE€300,000 – €2,000,000+
Contino / Mid Enterprise Firms
MID-MARKET€75,000 – €300,000
Gart Solutions / Mid Boutique
BOUTIQUE€30,000 – €100,000
✦ ESSEMVEE (Senior Boutique, Dublin)
OUR RANGE€25,000 – €80,000
Dysnix / Small Boutique (Eastern EU)
OFFSHORE€12,000 – €50,000
IT Outpost / Lean Remote
REMOTE€8,000 – €30,000
ESSEMVEE's sweet spot: Premium boutique quality at mid-market prices. Senior-only delivery, Dublin-based compliance expertise, and FinTech/SaaS domain depth — without the enterprise overhead of Contino or Accenture, and with the security and regulatory rigour that smaller offshore firms lack.

How It Works

What to Know Before You Engage

Our pricing philosophy and how we structure every engagement.

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Fixed Project Fees

Every project is scoped upfront with milestones, deliverables, and acceptance criteria. You know the full cost before work begins — no billing surprises, no scope creep add-ons.

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Discovery / Audit First

All large engagements begin with a paid Discovery (€3,000 – €8,000) to scope accurately. This produces a technical audit report and delivery roadmap — useful even if you don't proceed.

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100% Senior Delivery

Every engagement is led and delivered by Mohammed personally. No junior staff, no offshore handoff. The person you meet in the consultation is the one doing the work.

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FinTech & GDPR Premium

Financial services and regulated SaaS projects include compliance-ready architecture, GDPR-aligned delivery, and audit-trail documentation — typically 20–40% more than standard cloud projects.

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Retainers vs. Projects

Projects are ideal for specific transformations (migration, CI/CD, MLOps build). Retainers suit teams that want continuous engineering capacity, platform ownership, or fractional SRE support.

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Free 30-Min Scoping Call

Before any proposal, book a free 30-minute call. We'll assess your stack, your pain points, and give you an honest view of what it would take — no sales pressure, no obligation.

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