Hiding prices wastes everyone's time. These anchors are what the smallest credible version of each engagement costs — bespoke scope is quoted in writing after a short discovery.
A fast, conversion-built site that makes a small company look like the most credible option in the room. Designed and engineered by the same hands.
Fixed scope, fixed price · typical 2–4 weeks
from £4,500
Production software with real users in it: dashboards, portals, internal tools, SaaS products. Built to be maintained, not rescued.
Scoped in a one-week discovery · typical 6–12 weeks
from £18,000
Retrieval over your real documents, agents that take real actions, evaluated against your real questions — not a chat widget bolted to a prompt.
API-first builds, not model training · typical 4–8 weeks
from £12,000
Multi-agent systems that run a process end-to-end — orchestration, human-in-the-loop checkpoints, observability and the boring reliability work that makes autonomy safe to ship.
Custom scope · qualification first · typical 3–6 months
from £40,000
Your product keeps getting better after launch. Monitoring, dependency updates, fixes within an agreed SLA, and a monthly block of iteration time.
Monthly, pause or cancel anytime · typical Ongoing
from £450/mo
Budget under £5k? Skip the form — book a call directly
Focused add-ons that bolt onto any engagement — or stand alone.
Brand sprint
£2,500
Naming, wordmark, type and colour system in one focused week.
AI feature add-on
from £6,000
One well-scoped AI capability added to an existing product.
Performance rescue
£3,500
Core Web Vitals audit and fix pass on a site we didn't build.
Second opinion
£1,200
A senior review of an agency quote, codebase or AI build plan.
The people you meet on the first call. Lathe is deliberately small and senior — nothing is delegated to juniors or outsourced overseas. That's the product.
Because hiding them wastes your time and ours. The anchors above are real: they're what the smallest credible version of each engagement costs. Bespoke work is quoted after a short discovery, against a written scope.
We run at most three engagements at once. Current availability is on the booking page — typically two to four weeks out. Enquiries get a reply within one UK business hour.
Rarely, and only when the evidence demands it. Most products need well-engineered retrieval and tool use over frontier APIs — an order of magnitude cheaper, and faster to ship. We'll tell you plainly if your use case is the exception.
Every build includes 30 days of fixes. After that, most clients move to a Care plan; the rest get full handover docs and a walkthrough so any competent team can take over. No lock-in, ever.
Yes — skip the form and book a call directly. If a productized tier fits, we'll say so; if not, we'll point you somewhere honest rather than upsell you.
Four short questions, then a call with the people who'd actually build it.
We reply within one UK business hour.