Ten research agents, ten competitive segments, one question: who is actually standing where we stand — and what are they charging for it?
Straight from lunivate.com — the position the market is comparing against.
"Custom software and consulting, built by our own team of engineers and designers."
Build — custom web and mobile, end to end.
Advise — architecture, strategy, roadmaps.
Staff — our own engineers on your projects.
We run on our own platform — BusinessOS and MIOSA — plus agentic delivery with human engineer review.
Founder-led. No forms, no funnel, no sales team. Text, call or email the founder directly. Austin, Texas.
Healthcare, regenerative medicine, staffing, investing, marketing. The Health Institute, ClinicIQ, Better Stem, ProTrade Staffing, DiversyFund, Team Brandit.
Nothing published. A buyer has to ask to learn anything — while every segment below has at least one competitor showing a number.
Segment by segment, with the pricing each one actually publishes.
| Company | Base | Offer | Published price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alpenglow AI | Colorado Springs | Automation for home services, real estate, e-comm | $1,200 + $250/mo |
| Leads Under Control | Fort Lauderdale | Lead capture + instant AI follow-up | from $299/mo |
| QueryNow | Plano, TX | AI implementation in two weeks, teams of 10–500 | pay when it works |
| Axe Automation | North America | Audit → buildout → engineer placed → SOPs | free consult |
| The AI Agency USA | Las Vegas | AI audit, voice AI, apps & CRM, Shopify | not published |
| Hestur AI | San Francisco | Workflow automation, voice agents, RAG, fixed scope | custom quote |
Clutch's Austin rankings carry Kingsmen Digital Ventures, Simform, Designli, Twin Sun, BRIGHTSCOUT, Rubico, Empat, Vention, Iron Forge, Ancient, Syberry, Austin Custom Software and Praxent. Only one profile gave up full data.
| Firm | Rate | Project range | Mix |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clarity Ventures | $100–$149/hr | $5k–$150k | 40% e-commerce, 25% web, 10% custom software |
| Praxent | not published | not published | AI agents for financial services; $2B/day reconciliation case study |
Tecla publishes all-inclusive hourly averages: Junior $28/hr, Mid $48/hr, Senior $58/hr. Data roles run $24–$42. You pay only after you hire.
Assort Health runs an AI voice agent for the healthcare front desk and call centers — scheduling, triage and routing, patient intake, after-hours coverage, proactive outreach, medication refill, referral automation, payment resolution. Specialty focus on orthopedics, dermatology, ophthalmology and women's health.
Zapier Automation Agency prices per automation: Basic $20/zap for 2–3 steps with 7-day email support; Professional $49/zap for multi-step with conditional logic and 30-day support. Pay after delivery.
Continuum (Matt Turley) is a solo operator aimed explicitly at non-technical founders: $500–$10,000/mo, month to month, weekly 1:1 plus async availability. Three further firms confirmed their scope but not their pricing.
Techpotions sells fixed-price agents from $2,497 — scope includes evals, tool-call guardrails, cost caps, fallbacks and traces. Target: businesses that want a customer-facing agent, not a demo.
PatientGain sells HIPAA-compliant healthcare marketing at $199–$5,000/mo. Paladin, Snappy Kraken, FMG Suite and Indigo all publish pricing for financial-advisor marketing. DoctorLogic and Cardinal Digital run healthcare performance marketing; Buzzbox Media publishes the cost benchmarks.
What it costs to become someone's first purchase in this market — and where we sit on that ladder.
All-in, published by Tecla. The floor every staff-augmentation proposal is measured against.
Published by Clarity Ventures. Projects typically $5k–$150k, most under $49,999.
The strategic read, in order of how much it should change what we do.
Every adjacent segment has at least one firm publishing a number — and the ones publishing are the ones getting found. A buyer with three tabs open sees everyone's number and none of ours.
Techpotions at $2,497 fixed and Alpenglow at $1,200 + $250/mo prove the pattern: a small, fixed, low-risk first purchase that leads into the real engagement. Our smallest visible unit today is an entire project.
At $58/hr all-in for a senior nearshore engineer, the Staff line needs an explicit reason to command more — the platform, the review process, or US-based accountability. Rate alone loses.
Assort Health is attacking the clinic phone with a verticalized voice agent. ClinicIQ should lead with a named outcome — appointments booked, calls answered, hours saved — not a platform description.
We are not in the Austin developer rankings that buyers browse, while shops with a fraction of our portfolio are. That is discovery we are simply not receiving.
Nobody in this study sells "your own open-source business OS, plus the team to customize it." That story is unique in the entire set — and it is the one segment the research did not finish.
The research run hit its budget ceiling before finishing. These are the holes, not the conclusions.