Pricing

From scattered schemas to one Core Model your agents can trust.

Five fixed-scope engagements that map your context supply chain, assess the connectors you need, and build and operate your Core Model — each priced before it starts, each ending in something you keep.

Before any rung

Every engagement starts with an interview

A structured conversation about your schema landscape that ends in a working map of your context supply chain: the connectors you need and the wiring and remediation it will take to reach one governed Core Model. Yours whether or not you go further; there is no rung to buy first. Within ten days of the interview, a paid half-day Diagnostic Briefing is available for teams that want written findings and a buy/no-buy.

Engagement ladder

Five rungs

Rung 1

Diagnostic Briefing

$4,500 Half day — the paid close of the interview

Teams that want the interview map turned into written findings and a decision.

  • Half-day working session within ten days of the interview
  • The interview map turned into written findings
  • Maturity levels L0–L5 placement, reasoning shown
  • A buy/no-buy on rungs 2 and 3, in writing
  • A written no-go when the evidence says wait — you get the finding either way
  • Written summary for stakeholders

Rung 3

Core Model Blueprint

$32,500 3 to 4 weeks — Diagnose $15,000 plus Blueprint $17,500

Enterprises ready to diagnose one workflow's connectors and blueprint its Core Model.

  • One named agent workflow, diagnosed across seven stages
  • Diagnose: the connector assessment
  • Blueprint: the Core Model, sequenced
  • Conformance and efficiency protocols review
  • A go or no-go recommendation — including 'do not implement yet'

Rung 4

Implementation

$75,000 First quarter, fixed — import three systems, one Core Model, the MCP endpoint, licence included; expansion quarters $60,000 – $180,000 by scope

Buyers with an approved blueprint ready to deploy.

  • First quarter fixed: three systems imported, one Core Model, the MCP endpoint
  • Stages wired into operations
  • Retrieval and agent operations standup
  • Validation gates in the supply chain
  • Handoff criteria and runbooks
  • CoreModels licence included for the engagement term
  • Expansion quarters $60,000 – $180,000 by scope

Rung 5

Managed Operations

$9,000 – $18,000 Per month — Care $9,000 · Ops + Eval $18,000; quarterly rolling; CoreModels licence included

Teams keeping the Core Model and the chain around it true after go-live.

  • Care ($9,000): source freshness and Core Model drift monitored monthly
  • Care: new connectors as systems change, mappings kept in step
  • Care: quarterly ROKA report
  • Ops + Eval ($18,000) adds: the evaluation harness run on schedule against ground truth
  • Ops + Eval adds: incident attribution by layer — context, model, application
  • Ops + Eval adds: on-call for the named agent workflows
  • CoreModels licence included for the engagement term

How this works

Fixed scope. Fixed fee. Priced before we start.

You can enter at any rung and stop after any rung. Assessment deliverables are yours outright and can be executed by your own team or another partner.

At a glance

The whole ladder in one table

Engagement ladder: rung, engagement, price and basis
Rung Engagement Price Basis
1 Diagnostic Briefing $4,500 Half day — the paid close of the interview
2 Agent Context Cost & Failure Audit $12,000 2-week fixed engagement — one named agent workflow
3 Core Model Blueprint $32,500 3 to 4 weeks — Diagnose $15,000 plus Blueprint $17,500
4 Implementation $75,000 First quarter, fixed — import three systems, one Core Model, the MCP endpoint, licence included; expansion quarters $60,000 – $180,000 by scope
5 Managed Operations $9,000 – $18,000 Per month — Care $9,000 · Ops + Eval $18,000; quarterly rolling; CoreModels licence included

Software

The platform is priced separately

Developed by ARAMAI (Ariesnet's product group) · integrated and operated by Ariesnet.

Integrated into the systems you already run. Ariesnet integrates the Context Supply Chain into the systems you already operate — your sources, your schemas, your agent platforms — so governed context reaches every agent without replacing anything that works.

Buying the platform alone? CoreModels is priced per builder, per team, or for the enterprise at coremodels.io. Implementation and Managed Operations engagements include the licence for the engagement term — licensed to your team and readable by your MCP tools on your own agent API key; Managed Operations keeps it current.

How CoreModels fits an engagement

Buying advice

A subscription is not required to buy an assessment

The engagements above deploy against CoreModels where the blueprint calls for governed schema authoring. A subscription is not required to buy an assessment, and an assessment is the right first purchase if you do not yet know which stage is failing you. Buying the platform alone? Its plans are on coremodels.io.