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Autopilot vs. build-then-leave
Most shops — agencies, freelancers, even productized “unlimited” dev — build your app and vanish at launch. That’s exactly when the real cost starts. Autopilot is the one that stays to run it.
Side by side
Honestly, side by side.
| build-then-leave shops | Autopilot | |
|---|---|---|
| At launch | Code is handed over. The relationship ends. | Launch is day one of us running it for you. |
| Uptime | Your problem now — hope you staffed for it. | 99.9% uptime SLA. We’re paged before you are. |
| Updates & security | Dependencies rot; CVEs are yours to chase. | Patch updates plus 72h critical CVE patching, included. |
| Backups & recovery | Whatever you set up. Or didn’t. | Daily backups, one-click rollback, fast restore. |
| New features | Re-hire, re-scope, re-onboard. | Same queue, same flat fee — indefinitely. |
| Total cost of ownership | Cheap to build, expensive to keep alive. | One number covers building and running. |
The difference
The build is 20% of an app’s life. We’re here for the other 80%.
Shipping v1 is the easy part; keeping software alive, secure, and improving for years is where the cost and the risk actually live. Autopilot is priced and staffed to be there for the whole life of your app — not just its first week.
Priced in the open
The price is the price.
- No hourly billing.
- No surprise invoices.
- No change-order games.
Flat monthly numbers, published on this page. What you see is the whole deal.
The numbers
Questions
Straight answers.
Because most of an application’s cost and risk come after launch — uptime, security patches, backups, and the endless stream of changes. A shop that hands off at launch leaves all of that to you. Autopilot is built to own it.
Most build and hand off — you still host, monitor, patch, and operate the result. Autopilot includes running your app under an SLA, which is a different (and stickier) product than a build queue alone.
That’s a common starting point. We can take over an existing codebase, stabilize it, and run it — and larger rescues run through Custom Engagements.