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What I charge

Two hundred and fifty euros an hour. That is the entire price list. Everything below it is that number multiplied, and I will tell you how many hours a thing takes before you have to ask.

€250 euros per hour
excluding VAT

The arithmetic, in full

There are no packages, no retainers, no day rates that quietly assume ten hours, and no discount for volume. One number, multiplied. If a piece of work needs fewer hours than you expected, it costs less, and I will say so rather than filling the time.

An hour the unit everything else is built from €250
A day eight hours, which is a real eight, not a billed eight €2 000
A week forty hours €10 000
A month of interim, three days a week ninety-six hours, the usual shape when something has to be run €24 000
A talk, prepared and delivered [N] hours, because it depends on how much of it is new [N] × €250
The seven principles free whether or not you ever book an hour €0

Count it yourself

There is only one number, so the arithmetic is the whole quote

× €250
€2 000 excluding VAT · €2 500 including

What the hours include

The work, the thinking between sessions, and anything I build while I am there, which is yours and stays yours when I leave. That last part is the point of hiring somebody who builds: you do not end up renting the thing that was made for you.

What they do not include

VAT. Travel outside Stockholm, at cost. Third-party costs such as model usage, hosting or licences, at cost and with the invoice attached, never marked up.

What I will not quote for, at any price

Why this page exists

Most people in this trade will not tell you the number until they have decided what they think you can pay. I would rather price than negotiate, partly because it saves us both a meeting, and mostly because a rate that changes depending on who is asking is not a rate.

It also makes the rest of this publication legible. Issue 09 lists the work I refuse. This one lists what the rest costs. Between them you can work out how I will behave before you have met me, which is the only thing a site like this can honestly do.

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