Amar Harolikar bills for brain-time, not clock-time, across two modes. Sessions, where you are in the room and the work happens live, are ₹9,600 per hour. Execution, where he does the build, is ₹2,400 per hour of brain-time. Brain time is the time he spends planning with the AI, steering it, validating its output and researching, not the AI's coding time. Rates vary by region and engagement, so the above are indicative.
Calls during an execution project are billed on call time, at the execution rate. Both modes are prepaid, by PayPal, Razorpay, UPI or bank transfer. You approve the hours for each stage of execution up front, so the cost is bounded, with no open-ended commitment and no surprise invoices. The code and documents stay with you, and output goes live before it is finished.
Ongoing work can run as a monthly retainer instead, starting at ₹24,000 a month. That is a minimum rather than a fee on top: it is set off against actual work at a reduced rate, so what you pay for is the work, with the monthly figure as the floor. See does he work on a retainer for what it includes.
Full rates and the working model behind them: https://www.tigzig.com/how-i-work. For what the hours actually look like on real work, see how many hours a project takes, and for how an engagement runs, what working with him looks like.
For a specific quote on your project, email amar@harolikar.com.
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