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Most integrators make you book a call to find out whether you can afford them. Here are the numbers. Each offer is sized so one engineering manager can sign for it without opening a procurement cycle.

Test automation assessment$3,500 to $5,000

I audit your current test process and hand back an architecture, a bill of materials, and a firm quote for building it.

Timeline
2 weeks
Delivery
Remote
  • Written audit of the current test sequence and where the time goes
  • Proposed architecture with the instrument list and a bill of materials
  • Driver coverage confirmed instrument by instrument, before anyone commits
  • Phased roadmap with effort per phase
  • Firm fixed-price quote for the build

Good fit when: You know test is the bottleneck but cannot yet put a number or a scope on the fix.

Robotic cell feasibility study$4,000 to $8,000

Cycle time, payback period, and a simulated cell layout, so the robot decision gets made on numbers instead of a vendor demo.

Timeline
2 to 3 weeks
Delivery
Mostly remote
  • Cycle-time analysis and a payback calculation on your real volumes
  • Cell layout with reach, fixturing, and part presentation worked out
  • Offline simulation video of the cell running your sequence
  • Safety concept referenced to RIA R15.06 and ISO/TS 15066
  • Firm build quote, so the study leads somewhere

Good fit when: You are short of people on a repetitive load, test, or inspect loop and want to know whether a cobot actually pays.

Migration pilot$6,000 to $10,000

I port one LabVIEW or TestStand sequence to Python end to end, so you can see the pattern before betting the rack on it.

Timeline
3 to 4 weeks
Delivery
Remote
  • One complete sequence running in Python against your instruments
  • Instrument drivers written behind the Testral Core abstraction layer
  • Side-by-side results proving the port matches the original
  • The hybrid path documented, so TestStand can keep calling Python during the transition
  • Effort estimate for the remaining sequences, based on measured work

Good fit when: The rack still works, but the seat licenses keep climbing and the people who can maintain it keep leaving.

Results and reporting bolt-on$4,000 to $8,000

Traceability and reporting added to a rack that already works, without touching the test sequence.

Timeline
2 to 4 weeks
Delivery
Remote
  • SQL results database, per station to start, plant-wide when you are ready
  • Full traceability on every record: serial number, operator, station, firmware revision
  • Limits files, so specification changes stop being code changes
  • HTML and PDF reports generated per unit and per batch
  • Yield and first-pass-rate views over the data you have been throwing away

Good fit when: Your tester passes and fails correctly, but nobody can answer what changed when yield dropped last quarter.

Instrument driver packFixed price per driver

Clean Python drivers for the instruments you own, written behind one abstraction layer so swapping a box does not mean rewriting a sequence.

Timeline
1 to 2 weeks per driver
Delivery
Remote
  • One driver per instrument, behind the Testral Core hardware abstraction layer
  • Simulation mode, so sequences can be developed and tested with no hardware attached
  • Unit tests against the simulated device
  • Documentation your engineers can read without calling me

Good fit when: You have an instrument with no usable Python support and a sequence waiting on it.

Benchtop test set for one product line$15,000 to $40,000

A complete functional tester for a single product, built on the standard core, delivered with the operator UI, reports, and traceability already working.

Timeline
6 to 12 weeks
Delivery
Remote, then on site
  • Full test sequence, from power-up to pass or fail stamp
  • Operator interface built for a technician, not for an engineer
  • Fixture design coordinated with your machine shop
  • Results database, limits files, and per-unit reports
  • Factory acceptance test against a written checklist you sign
  • Ninety-day warranty on defects

Good fit when: One product line is eating your test bench and you want it off the bench and onto a station.

Integrator overflow development$75 to $110 per hour

Defined development packages under your brand, for integrators who are capacity constrained rather than short of work.

Timeline
Defined packages, by agreement
Delivery
Remote
  • Scoped development packages with fixed deliverables
  • Work delivered under your name, to your standards and your client
  • Python, LabVIEW, TestStand, and machine vision
  • Own insurance and certificate of insurance ready before the first package

Good fit when: You have signed more test software work than your team can absorb this quarter.

Remote support retainerFrom 5 hours per month

Fixes, tweaks, and operator questions on a system that is already running, billed monthly instead of chased by purchase order.

Timeline
Monthly, 60 days notice
Delivery
Remote
  • Bronze, 5 hours a month, next business day response
  • Silver, 10 hours a month, next business day plus priority scheduling and a quarterly health check
  • Gold, 20 hours a month, same day or four business hours, emergency line, annual on-site preventive visit
  • Billed monthly in advance at roughly ten percent under standard rate
  • Unused hours roll one month, new capability over eight hours is quoted as a change order

Good fit when: The tester is in production and you need someone on the hook when it stops.

How the numbers are built

Where a fixed price comes from

A fixed price is a rate, an estimate, and a contingency factor. Publishing all three is the only way you can tell whether the number is serious.

Rates

Direct work
$125 to $200 per hour equivalent
Subcontract to integrators
$75 to $110 per hour
LabVIEW and TestStand
LabVIEW and TestStand work is priced 15 to 25 percent above standard rate

Fixed bids are estimated hours times rate times a contingency factor of 1.3 to 1.5. I track what each job actually took against what I bid it at, which is the only thing that makes the next estimate better than the last one.

Payment

Up to $10,000

  1. 50 percent on signing
  2. 50 percent on acceptance

Net 30. Acceptance is a written checklist agreed in the statement of work, walked through on a call.

$10,000 to $50,000

  1. 40 percent on purchase order
  2. 40 percent at acceptance
  3. 20 percent at commissioning

You buy the hardware on your own purchase orders from my bill of materials. No markup, no floated cash.

System and cell builds

  1. 25 percent on purchase order
  2. 25 percent at design review
  3. 40 percent at factory acceptance
  4. 10 percent at commissioning

Factory acceptance is a written procedure with a signed acceptance sheet, plus safety validation on any cell with a moving arm.

Before you write

What I will turn down, and why

Saying this upfront saves us both a call. None of it is a judgement on the work, it is a judgement on whether I can do it well from here.

It has to ship this week

Deadlines in weeks are workable. Deadlines in days mean somebody has already been let down and adding me will not fix it.

It needs someone in your daily standup

Written status weekly, calls at lunch or after five. If the work needs a person in the room every morning, it needs an employee.

Scope is vague but the price has to be fixed

That combination only ends one way. Start with a paid assessment and the fixed price becomes possible.

It goes through full corporate procurement

A twelve-week purchase order cycle for an eight-week project does not work for either of us yet. Under about ten thousand dollars usually sits inside one manager’s signing authority.

Next step

Tell me what your test bench is holding up.

Thirty minutes, at lunch or after five, on your product and your current test process. No deck. If it is not a fit I will say so on the call, and if I know someone better placed I will tell you who.

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