Every project starts with paid Discovery. After Discovery, your work becomes a monthly Subscription or a fixed-price Build. The Discovery fee credits 100 percent against whichever model fits.
Two to three weeks. We work alongside your team to identify what is actually slowing your operation down, and we deliver a written diagnosis and a proposal — either a monthly Subscription or a fixed-price Build.
Credits 100 percent against your post-Discovery work. If you walk away, you keep the diagnostic and owe nothing more.
What is broken, where the cost lives, and why.
What to build, what to buy, what to leave alone.
Price, timeline, and the model that fits the work.
If you do not move forward, the diagnostic is yours to keep.
Discovery picks the model. We decide based on two criteria: is the solution productizable, and does it contain proprietary content you need to keep exclusive? The proposal names the model — it is not a customer choice.
For productizable solutions with no proprietary content. The Discovery credit burns down month by month from signing. 12-month minimum, then month-to-month. Maintenance and feature updates included.
Monthly fee, project-specific. Named in your Discovery proposal.
Illustrative: at $400/mo, the $4,313 credit pre-pays ~10 months.For work that needs exclusivity, or is not productizable. The Discovery credit reduces the at-delivery total. Next313 retains the codebase; you receive a perpetual license plus source-code escrow. Maintenance is 18 percent of Build cost per year, paid annually.
At-delivery total, project-specific. Named in your Discovery proposal.
Illustrative: on a $20,000 Build, the $4,313 credit reduces the at-delivery total to $15,687, plus $3,600 annual maintenance.Discovery is never wasted. Whichever model your project becomes, the $4,313 credits 100 percent against the post-Discovery work.
Most agencies do unpaid scoping, which either rushes the diagnostic or pads the build to cover the unbilled work. Discovery is the most valuable part of what we do — the project depends on getting it right. The fee also pre-qualifies the engagement. If you proceed, you get the fee back as credit. If you do not, you keep the diagnosis.
Two objective criteria: is the solution productizable, and does it contain proprietary content you need to keep exclusive? Productizable and not proprietary becomes a Subscription. Not productizable, or proprietary, becomes a Build. Discovery names the model in the proposal — it is not a customer choice because the model is what the work actually is.
Because they are project-specific. Publishing a band would anchor your expectations to a project that is not yours. Discovery is $4,313 for everyone, the credit is 100 percent applicable, the Subscription minimum is 12 months, and Build maintenance is 18 percent per year. Your project number is named in your Discovery proposal.
On a Build, Next313 retains the codebase and you receive a perpetual license to use the software indefinitely. A third-party service (Iron Mountain, NCC Group, and similar) holds a copy of the source code that releases to you under defined conditions written into the contract. The escrow is your continuity insurance and is included in the Build maintenance fee.
Subscriptions are billed monthly with a 12-month minimum commitment from the start of service, which is what unlocks the Discovery credit. After 12 months, the Subscription continues month-to-month and can be cancelled. The minimum protects against taking the diagnostic, subscribing briefly to consume the credit, and cancelling.