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Limite Arrojado

Retainer

A technical department on call for whenever you need it.

Nobody counts hours and nobody raises a quote for every change. For as long as the retainer runs, whatever your business needs in development, automation or technical guidance gets done — and the invoice is the same every month.

Starting at

$650*/mo

The final amount depends on the size of the operation and the pace of work, and it's fixed in the contract. There are no tiers and no packages: there's a proposal built for your case, and a price that doesn't move halfway through.

  • You stop waiting

    A request doesn't go through a quote, an approval and a scheduling call. It joins the queue and it gets done.

  • You stop getting surprises on the invoice

    The contracted amount is the amount that shows up every month. No extras, no overage, no work reclassified as out of scope.

  • You stop depending on one person

    Everything we do is documented and delivered in your company's name. The knowledge doesn't leave when we do.

  • You stop postponing improvements

    When improving a process costs nothing extra, improvements stop getting pushed to next quarter — and that's where costs fall and margin rises.

Ground rules

If it's development or technical guidance, it's in.

There's no list of permitted requests and no categories excluded for being a different kind of work. If it's software, it's ours.

Included

  • Process automation and system-to-system integration
  • New features and internal tools
  • AI implementation and ongoing tuning
  • Websites, landing pages and content changes
  • Mobile apps and evolution of existing ones
  • Integrations with APIs, ERP, billing and CRM
  • Fixing any problem in anything we built
  • Maintenance, updates and 24/7 monitoring
  • Technical SEO and ranking monitoring
  • Backups and recovery
  • Technology advice and help with purchasing decisions
  • Documentation and team training

Not included

  • Third-party software licenses, hosting and domains
  • Paid advertising budget
  • Social media management and editorial content production
  • Photography and video production
  • Equipment and hardware

These are third-party costs that pass straight through to you, with no markup from us. We help you choose and negotiate; the invoice comes from whoever provides the service.

6 months
initial term, renewable
30 days
notice to cancel
24 h
to respond to any request
4 h
to respond to a real emergency

The math

Run the numbers before you call us.

A retainer gets compared against two things: what it would cost to hire someone, and what it's costing you to carry on with nobody.

  • Senior developer in-house

    $10,000 – $14,000/mo

    • Salary, payroll taxes, benefits, PTO and training
    • Two to four months to recruit
    • One specialty only
    • If they leave, the knowledge leaves with them
  • Traditional agency

    quote by quote

    • Every change is a request, a wait and an invoice
    • Overhead margin baked into the price
    • A team that rotates between projects
    • Priority goes to the larger accounts
  • Limite Arrojado retainer

    from $650*/mo

    • No hour counting and no quote per request
    • Starts next week
    • Automation, AI, web, mobile and integrations on one invoice
    • Documentation and repository always yours

Questions

Before you sign.

  • No limit on requests? Really?

    There's no hour counting and no table of allowed requests. There's a work queue and a priority order you set with us. If a client's volume grows structurally — you were a ten-person company and now you're sixty — we sit down and revise the amount at the next renewal. Never mid-contract, and never on the invoice without warning.

  • How do you measure whether this paid off?

    Before we start, we write down the number we're trying to move: hours spent on a process, monthly license cost, orders that fall through, sales per hundred visits. At the end, we compare. If costs didn't fall, revenue didn't rise and nobody got time back, the work wasn't worth doing — and we want to be the first to say so.

  • Why is there no portfolio on this site?

    Because most of what we do ships under someone else's name. We work white-label for agencies and under NDA with direct clients — publishing that work would break a contract, and a studio that breaks one client's contract will break yours. Judge us by this site instead: we designed and built it, with the same tools and the same care.

  • What if I want out?

    The term is six months and it renews. To cancel, thirty days' notice is enough. No penalties, no hidden clauses. You take everything: repository, access, domains, documentation, and the handover documents for whoever comes next.

  • How fast do you respond?

    Within 24 hours for any request. Within 4 hours for a genuine emergency — operations down, broken checkout, data leak. It's in the contract, not a sales promise. And there's no cap on how many emergencies you can raise.

  • Isn't AI going to replace my team?

    That's not what we use it for. Where it makes sense, AI handles the repetitive part — reading documents, classifying requests, summarizing information — and gives people back the time they were spending on it. When we assess a case and conclude there's no return, we say it isn't worth doing and we don't do it.

  • Do you work with WordPress?

    We'll maintain an existing WordPress site without complaining. We don't build anything new on it, because after two years the maintenance cost exceeds whatever was saved at the start. If you insist, we'll say no and explain why — we'd rather lose the project than hand over something we know will cause you problems.

  • How does working across time zones actually go?

    We're in Portugal, on Western European Time. Our afternoon is your morning: from 9am Eastern onwards we're both at our desks, every working day, which is more overlap than most US companies get from an offshore team. Anything asynchronous is written down, so you read it when you start your day rather than waiting for a call.

Contact

Want the number for your case?

Describe the operation in two lines. We reply within one business day with a proposal, or with the question we're missing.