Why Avanest
Every studio says it is experienced, passionate and quality-driven. None of that is checkable. These are commitments specific enough that you would know if we broke one.
Proposal
Invoice capture into existing ERP
You commit one phase at a time. Stop at any boundary and the work so far is yours.
Source code, infrastructure config and documentation transfer to you on final payment. We keep no licence and reuse none of it elsewhere. You should be able to leave.
Ownership termsFixed price per phase, agreed up front, with a decision point at every phase boundary. No hourly meter, no invoice that surprises you.
How pricing worksWe use provider configurations that exclude your inputs from training, and we tell you in writing which providers touch what. If it cannot leave your infrastructure, we design for self-hosted models.
Data handlingA lot of work pitched as AI is better served by a database query or better-designed software. We say so, even when saying so costs us the project.
When we decline workNo account managers, no handoff to a delivery team you have not met, no subcontracting. The person on your first call is the person writing the code.
What happens nextEvery AI feature ships with an evaluation set — real inputs with known-good outputs, run on every change. That is how we can tell you what it gets wrong instead of showing you three examples that work.
How we evaluateWeb, mobile, desktop, ERP and SaaS under one roof. Nobody is coordinating three vendors and arbitrating whose fault the integration is.
What we buildModel providers deprecate versions and real usage drifts from what you tested. We monitor and maintain, or hand over the tooling to do it yourselves — documented either way.
The Operate stageSpeed & cost
Every studio claims to be quick and good value. Rather than give you a multiple nobody can verify, here is the actual mechanism — check it against how your last project went.
Scaffolding, test coverage, migrations, documentation, refactors across hundreds of files. Work that used to consume weeks of billable time now takes hours, so more of your budget goes to the parts that need judgement.
One small senior team covering design, backend, frontend and infrastructure. Nothing waits on a handoff between agencies, and nobody is arbitrating whose fault the integration is.
You see it running early rather than reading a document about it. Most timeline is lost to building the wrong thing carefully — seeing it early is what prevents that.
The person who scoped your project is the person writing the code. A question gets answered the same day instead of being routed through an account manager.
No account managers, no sales engineers, no bench to keep busy. A far higher share of what you pay is someone building your product.
Fixed price per phase with a decision point at each boundary. Your exposure is the current phase, not the whole project — which is a very different risk profile from a twelve-month contract.
Evaluation sets and clean boundaries around model calls mean changes stay cheap. Systems nobody dares touch are the genuinely expensive kind, and they do not look expensive on day one.
You own the code and infrastructure outright. Nothing is rented from us, and you are not paying anyone to keep the lights on afterwards.
Most attempts to control software cost target the wrong things. These are the levers that genuinely change what a project costs, and we will point you at them before you ask:
We will not be the lowest quote you receive. We will tell you before you spend anything whether the budget you have can build the thing you want.
The alternatives
You have four realistic options and each wins in different circumstances. If one of the others fits your situation better, take it.
| Option | Best when | The cost of it |
|---|---|---|
| Hire in-house | This is permanent core capability, and you can absorb three to six months of recruiting before anything ships. | Slowest to start, highest fixed cost, hardest to reverse. |
| A large consultancy | You need scale, formal procurement, or coverage across many workstreams at once. | The people who sell it are rarely the people who build it, and you pay for the structure around them. |
| A freelancer | The task is narrow, well specified, and you can manage it technically yourself. | One person is a single point of failure, and breadth across design, backend and ops is rare. |
| A small studio like us | The problem is not fully defined yet, AI is genuinely part of it, and you want a senior team that owns the outcome end to end. | We are not the cheapest, and we do not scale to twenty parallel workstreams. |
Bring the problem and push on whichever commitment matters most to you. If we cannot back it up in a conversation, none of it was worth writing down.
Worth reading first: who we work best with, and who should hire someone else.
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