The first installation is a focused engineering engagement. It connects the platform to your environment, proves the delivery loop on real product work and leaves behind a working environment with its operating model.
Week 01Install
Install AxiaCraft and OpenClaw, then establish the gateways, model routes and core runtime.
Week 02Integration
Connect repositories, identity, CI/CD, engineering tools and delivery environments to the factory.
Week 03Build the first app
Take the first application from product intent through planning, implementation, review, remediation and release.
Week 04Handover
Transfer the operating model, runbooks, observability, cost controls and prioritised improvement backlog.
Installation, licence and support
An entry configuration for around the annual cost of hiring one junior developer.
Give your team specialist AI agents covering senior engineering roles in planning, development, architecture, quality and security. They work in parallel inside your environment, with human control over delivery, so your team can build and improve more software.
The smallest one-app, licence-only configuration is approximately £47,000 in year one, including installation and quiet hosting. This budget comparison applies to that entry configuration; larger workloads and support packages cost more.
Four-week entry installation£20,000Install, integrate, build the first agreed application and hand over to your team.
Licence£1,000 / month£12,000 per year. One organisation’s factory, including Gallery, production and test environments, unlimited applications and users.
Fixed installation price for the agreed entry scope. Larger or more complex installations are quoted separately. Infrastructure and AI usage are paid directly by the customer. All prices exclude VAT.
What the junior-developer comparison includes
The smallest one-app, licence-only setup is projected at £47,034 in year one: £20,000 installation, £12,000 licence and approximately £15,034 for initial build AI, shared infrastructure and quiet hosting. Its following annual baseline is £26,972. Additional development and application usage add to this baseline.
Illustrative UK salaries of £30,000–£40,000 give annual employment costs of approximately £34,463–£46,263 with standard 2026/27 employer National Insurance and minimum pension contributions. Adding the same £4,603 application-hosting allowance gives £39,066–£50,866. The National Careers Service lists £30,000 as a starting software-developer salary; £35,000 and £40,000 are illustrative budgets.
The employment calculation assumes an employee aged 22 or over and standard contributions before Employment Allowance or other reliefs. Recruitment, equipment and management costs are excluded. This compares budgets; delivery output depends on scope, workload and human oversight.
Salary reference · Employer NI rates · Employer pension contributions
Choose how much support you need.
Every package below includes the licence. Choose the level of ongoing help your team needs to operate and develop its factory.
Licence only
£1,000/month£12,000 per year
Operate the factory with your own team. Includes product updates, security patches and defect reporting.
Essential
£2,000/month£24,000 per year · licence included
Issue triage, operating guidance and a monthly health review.
Up to 4 hours of assistance per month.
Standard
£4,000/month£48,000 per year · licence included
Essential plus priority support, governance reviews, upgrade assistance and builder coaching.
Up to 12 hours of assistance per month.
Managed support
£8,000/month£96,000 per year · licence included
Standard plus hands-on operational support, agreed remediation and delivery coaching. Your team retains day-to-day operating responsibility.
Up to 28 hours of assistance per month.
Reviews count towards the monthly assistance allowance. Additional work is agreed separately. Support operates during UK business hours; 24/7 cover is quoted separately.
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