broke2builtWhat custom work costs.
Rough ranges for the jobs we're asked for most. Anthony Snider designs each system and directs the AI agents that build it, and he signs off before anything ships.
Scrapers and data extraction
Public data, collected on a schedule or once, into rows you can use.
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Custom scraper, Starter
One public site, up to 10 fields.
Turnaround 2 to 5 business days$250–400 per project -
Custom scraper, Standard
Up to 3 sites, pagination, schedules and changed-since-last-run diffs.
Turnaround 1 to 2 weeks$600–1,000 per project -
Custom scraper, Pro
4 or more sites, or one hard site, with anti-bot handling and alerts.
Turnaround 2 to 4 weeks$1,200–2,500 per project -
Scraper run-and-care plan
Plus compute at cost.
Turnaround Ongoing$99–299 a month -
One-off dataset
Up to 10,000 records from a site one of our tools already covers, plus compute.
Turnaround 1 to 3 business days$150–350 per dataset -
Document extraction pipeline
PDFs, scans, Excel or invoices into CSV, JSON or Sheets.
Turnaround 1 to 3 weeks$400–1,500 per project
Sites, APIs, chat agents and automations
Built on Cloudflare in your own account, with the source and a plain-language runbook.
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Website or landing page
1 to 5 art-directed pages on Cloudflare.
Turnaround 1 to 3 weeks$500–1,500 per project -
API or backend on Cloudflare Workers
With D1, KV, R2 and scheduled jobs.
Turnaround 1 to 3 weeks$500–2,000 per project -
Website chat agent
Runs on your own model API key.
Turnaround 1 to 3 weeks$900–2,500 per project + $99–299 a month care -
Automation or integration workflow
Connects 2 to 4 apps.
Turnaround 3 days to 2 weeks$250–800 per workflow
Research, outreach drafts and audits
Public business information only. You send every email from your own account.
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Lead and market research
Public business information only.
Turnaround 2 to 5 business days$99–149 per 50 businesses -
Outreach email sequence
3 to 5 emails, disclosed as AI-drafted, sent by you from your own account.
Turnaround 2 to 4 business days$250–400 per sequence -
Outreach drafting retainer
Up to 40 drafts a month, plus research.
Turnaround Ongoing$400–900 a month -
Website speed and SEO audit
Up to 25 URLs, with a ranked fix list.
Turnaround 1 to 3 business days$99–249 per audit
Hourly and retainers
Hours over a plan bill at the hourly rate, and only after you approve them in writing.
Prepaid in 5-hour blocks. 2-hour minimum; unused hours roll over one month.
Up to 5 hours a month: monitoring, fixes when a site changes, small edits.
Up to 15 hours a month: ongoing builds and changes.
Up to 30 hours a month: several projects in parallel.
Ready-made tools are different: each is paid per result on its Apify listing. See all cloud tools for those prices.
What a few real asks would cost
Each is an estimate for a typical version of that job. Estimate only, final quote after scoping.
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“Scrape 10,000 product pages every week.”
- Standard scraper
- $600–1,000 one time
- Care
- $149–249 a month
- Apify compute, at cost
- $5–150 a month
Compute is low when plain HTTP works, high when the site needs a browser or proxies.
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“A chat agent like this site's, for my site.”
- Setup
- $900–2,500 one time
- Care
- $99–199 a month
- Model usage on your own key
- $5–50 a month
Model usage depends on how many chats you get.
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“Turn our PDF invoices into a spreadsheet automatically.”
- Setup
- $400–1,200 one time
- Care, optional
- up to $99 a month
Scanned pages are read at our OCR tool's listed rate.
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“Watch 5 competitors' prices daily and email me the changes.”
- Setup
- $700–1,200 one time
- Care
- $99–199 a month
- Compute, at cost
- $2–40 a month
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“Send our form leads to Sheets and Slack, tagged by AI.”
- Build
- $250–600 one time
- Care, optional
- up to $99 a month
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“Transcribe our 200-hour podcast back catalog.”
- Done-for-you handling
- $99–199 one time
Plus the minutes at our transcription tool's listed per-minute price, or run that tool yourself.
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“Find 200 local businesses in my niche and draft intro emails.”
- Research, 200 businesses
- $396–596 one time
- Whole job, with a 3-email sequence
- $650–1,000 one time
Business contacts only. You send the emails from your own account.
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“Why is my 20-page site slow, and what do I fix first?”
- Audit with a ranked fix list
- $99–199 one time
Deposits and terms
Every job is invoiced through PayPal, and that's the only way we take payment.
100% upfront
50% upfront, 50% on delivery, before handover
40% upfront, 30% at a working demo, 30% before handover
- Retainers are prepaid each month. Cancel any time before the next month starts.
- Hours over a retainer bill at the hourly rate, and only after you approve the overage in writing.
- Third-party costs (Apify compute, proxies, model API, domains) are billed at cost, or run on your own accounts, which we prefer.
- Fixed packages include 2 rounds of revisions, then hourly.
- Payment is by PayPal invoice only.
In writing, in your accounts
All in writing
Quotes and questions happen over email, with no calls.
Built in your account
We build on Cloudflare in your own account by default.
Public data, no spam
Public data only: no login-walled scraping, no scraping people's personal data, and no sites whose terms ban scraping. Outreach is low-volume, personal and disclosed as AI-drafted, and you send it from your own account.
Tell us the job. Get a real number.
What goes in, what should come out, and where it gets stuck today. Estimate only, final quote after scoping.
The quote buttons open a note in the guide's chat. You can also write to us on the contact page.