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Emperor Operations pricing

Priced on scope.
Nothing hidden.

Every operations engagement starts with a paid assessment that produces a fixed-price proposal. Implementation is scoped, not estimated. Managed operations is a flat monthly retainer. Prices are in US dollars; Canadian clients are invoiced in CAD at the prevailing rate.

Emperor Operations

Assessment. Implementation. Managed operations.

Three stages, each priced on its own. The assessment is where the implementation number comes from — no proposal is written before the business has been mapped.

Operations assessment

$2,500 one-time
Credited in full against implementation if you proceed within 60 days

We map how work actually moves through your business: every document type, handoff, system, and every place a person is doing what software should.

Written map of how work moves through your business
Automation candidates ranked by impact and risk
Fixed-price implementation proposal with milestones
Yours to keep, whoever you build with
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Managed operations

$3,000/month
Extended: $5,000/month · Starts at go-live · 60-day notice

Customers change formats. Rules change. Exceptions arrive. We keep the system running and extend it as the business changes.

Standard: monitoring, failure alerts, exception handling, minor changes, platform costs to a cap, one named person
Extended adds 12 hours/month of new workflow work
Extended adds new customer document formats as they appear
Extended adds a quarterly operations review
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Implementation price is set by complexity: how many systems are involved, how many document formats arrive, how much testing is needed, and what has to work before go-live. Change orders are written and priced separately; the scope at the end of the assessment is the contract.

Managed front-office support

A dedicated assistant, priced by the hour.

For businesses that mainly need people: calls, scheduling, inbox, CRM, follow-up, and the admin that needs judgment. One dedicated, trained assistant working your hours, managed by us. Light automation is included from Standard up.

Part-time

$1,100/month
40 hours per month · $500 setup

Coverage for the hours that matter most — a morning block, end-of-day follow-up, or a few hours of admin every weekday.

Dedicated assistant, not a shared pool
Calls, scheduling, inbox, and CRM updates
Daily end-of-day summary
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Full

$2,800/month
120 hours per month · $500 setup

Near full-time coverage for businesses where the front office is a full role.

Everything in Standard
Coordinating with vendors and your team
Monthly workflow review
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All support plans are month-to-month with 30 days' written notice. Hours are per calendar month and don't roll over. Optional 24/7 call coverage is available as an add-on. Support hours are the human side; anything beyond light automation is scoped through Emperor Operations.

Inside a managed operations retainer

What $3,000 a month actually buys.

Monitoring and alerts

Every workflow reports to one monitor. A new failure alerts us immediately; repeats are counted and summarized daily. Nothing fails silently.

Exceptions handled

Uncertain reads, unknown senders, missing fields — anything the system isn't sure about goes to a person, who resolves it and feeds the fix back into the system.

Platform costs covered

Workflow hosting, AI usage, and cloud API costs are included up to a stated monthly cap, on your accounts, so there's no second invoice.

A named person

When a report doesn't go out, you know who answers. Minor changes are included; larger ones are scoped under the Extended tier or as a change order.

Three things that never change

Fixed price. Written scope. You own it.

The price you're quoted is the price you pay — set from the assessment, not from hours. The scope is written down before anything is built, and changes are priced separately, in writing. Everything runs on your accounts, in tools you license, so if you ever leave, it keeps running.

Quick questions

Before you book.

What decides the implementation price?

How many systems are involved, how many document formats arrive, what has to be calculated or generated, and what must be working before go-live. A single document type into records and a board is near the floor; a complete system with reporting and billing is not.

Do I own what you build?

Yes. It's built on your Google Workspace, your board, your accounting software, and your cloud accounts, and it's documented. The retainer keeps it running; it doesn't decide whether it's yours.

What if the scope changes mid-build?

Every change order is written and priced separately before it's built. The scope from the assessment is the contract; we don't reopen it to sell you more.

USD or CAD?

Prices are listed in US dollars. Canadian clients are invoiced in Canadian dollars at the prevailing rate on the invoice date, plus HST.

Can I skip the assessment?

No. It's how the fixed price is set, and the assessment fee is credited in full toward implementation when you proceed.

Can I stop the retainer?

Yes, with 60 days' notice. The system keeps running on your accounts; you're stopping monitoring and support, not the automation.

Ready to see your business clearly?

Start with the assessment.

Bring the documents your customers send you and the spreadsheet holding it together. We'll map where work stalls, rank what to automate, and put a fixed price on it.

Book an Operations Assessment