Before we talk about cost, let's talk about what you're already spending.

Most mid-market operations teams are carrying $80,000–$150,000 per year in tools that don't connect. CRM, BI platform, project management, communication stack, billing system, HR platform — each bought to solve a specific problem, each doing that job, none of them talking to each other. The fragmentation isn't the tools' fault. It's just what happens when you add the right system for each job, one at a time, over years. Here's what that looks like in practice:

Current toolAnnual cost
CRM (HubSpot, Salesforce)$12,000–$36,000
BI / dashboard tool (Tableau, Looker, Power BI)$12,000–$40,000
Project management (Asana, Monday, Jira)$5,000–$15,000
Communication + email archive$8,000–$20,000
Other SaaS (various, some likely unused)$20,000–$40,000
Total current spend$57,000–$151,000/year
ResolvHQCost
Operational X-Ray (entry)$3,500–$7,500
Foundation Sprint (full deployment)$15,000–$25,000
Infrastructure Hosting, months 1–12$6,000–$18,000
Total, Year 1$24,500–$50,500

That stack produces individual answers in individual systems. It doesn't produce cross-domain visibility. It doesn't tell you why a metric moved. It doesn't surface the vendor behind four separate delays, the $127K in unbilled work, or the three accounts showing pre-churn behavior. **The math on switching:**

The question isn't whether you can afford it. The question is whether your current stack is telling you what you need to know — and whether the cost of not knowing is showing up somewhere in your P&L.

Operational X-Ray

One-time flat fee 5–10 business days

$3,500–$7,500

A point-in-time diagnostic run against your data exports. You send us CSVs or spreadsheet exports from your core systems. No API access, no credentials, no logins required. We run the Four Blind Spots analysis and deliver a written findings report.

$3,500 1–2 data sources, single domain
$5,000 3–4 data sources, cross-domain analysis
$7,500 5+ data sources, complex entity relationships, PE due diligence context

Deliverables

> Four Blind Spots Findings Report (PDF, 8–15 pages) with findings organized by Ghost Waste, Bus Factor Risk, Root Cause Blindness, and Revenue Decay

> Dollar-quantified findings where the data supports quantification

> Prioritized remediation roadmap, ranked by dollar impact and implementation difficulty

> 30-minute findings walkthrough call

Exclusions

No dashboard. No login. No ongoing system.

No follow-up support after the walkthrough.

Infrastructure does not remain running.

Dollar-quantified findings are extrapolated from your operational data to surface inefficiencies and direct attention. They are not audited financial statements and should not be used for accounting, tax, or formal valuation purposes. Where data is severely malformed, lacks reliable common identifiers, or requires manual line-by-line reconciliation, we will flag this as a critical finding ("Systemic Data Fragmentation") rather than correcting the underlying data by hand. If the data is the problem, that *is* the finding.

100% of the X-Ray fee credits toward a Foundation Sprint if you proceed within 30 calendar days of report delivery.

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Foundation Sprint

Fixed scope, fixed price 2–4 weeks

$15,000–$25,000

A full deployment of dedicated operational intelligence infrastructure — live data connections, automated briefings, closed-loop automations, custom dashboard, and a curated intelligence query library. Fixed scope. Fixed price. Working system, handed off.

$15,000 3 integrations, single domain, standard dashboard
$20,000 4–5 integrations, cross-domain analysis, custom signal/action workflows
$25,000 Complex entity relationships, PE portfolio visibility, multi-domain correlation, advanced recipe configuration

Deliverables

> Dedicated infrastructure per client — isolated databases, compute, and storage. Physical separation, not row-level security.

> Live data connections to 3–5 of your core systems via API integrations

> Bronze → Silver → Gold data pipeline: raw data ingested, typed, and served from a query-optimized analytical layer. Fully rebuildable from source.

> Custom dashboard configured to your business and your findings

> Monday Morning Brief: automated weekly intelligence briefing delivered to 2–3 leadership inboxes every Monday before 7:00am

> Closed-loop automations on your 2–3 highest-value signals: pattern detected → action drafted → delivered → resolution tracked

> Curated intelligence query library: 10–15 pre-configured queries, each returning cited results with a full evidence trail

> 60-minute training session with your admin team

> Documentation covering the dashboard, brief, and query library

> First month of infrastructure hosting included

Exclusions

More than 3–5 system integrations (change order: $2,000–$5,000 per integration)

More than 2–3 closed-loop action workflows (change order: $1,500–$3,000 each)

More than 15 curated queries (change order: $500–$1,000 per query)

Ongoing consulting, strategy sessions, or business advice

Open-ended natural language querying beyond the pre-built library

The Root Cause analysis surfaces co-occurring events and correlated patterns visible across your connected systems — for example, that a metric shifted within 48 hours of a process change in a separate system. Correlation is not causation. We show you the breadcrumbs; your team makes the judgment on what to act on.

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Infrastructure Hosting

Monthly, billed in advance. 30-day cancellation notice required. Ongoing

$500–$1,500/month

Everything we built in the Foundation Sprint keeps running. Servers, databases, pipeline execution, Monday Brief delivery, signal monitoring, and integration maintenance — all maintained. No consulting. No strategy calls. No retainer.

$500/month Small data volume, 2–3 integrations, standard monitoring
$1,000/month Moderate volume, 4–5 integrations, Memgraph active, more complex signal monitoring
$1,500/month High volume, 5+ integrations, advanced recipe execution, PE-grade compliance requirements

Deliverables

> Dedicated Postgres, ClickHouse, Memgraph, storage, pipeline workers, and dashboard remain running

> Bronze → Silver → Gold pipeline runs on schedule; data stays fresh

> Monday Morning Brief generated and delivered every Monday

> Closed-loop automations continue firing on configured signals

> Curated queries remain functional against live data

> Basic integration maintenance: OAuth token refresh, API endpoint changes, rate limit adjustments (up to 4 hours/month)

> Monitoring and alerting across all services — we know before you do if something breaks

Exclusions

New integrations, new dashboard views, new queries, new signal/action workflows

Strategy calls, consulting, data re-architecture, training for new staff

All expansions are fixed-price change orders

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Frequently Asked Questions

Q: How is this different from hiring a data consultant?
A: A consultant bills by the hour, scopes loosely, and delivers a report. You pay for their time, including the time they spend figuring things out. The engagement ends when the engagement ends — which usually means when the budget runs out. There's no system running afterward. We deliver a fixed-scope, fixed-price build. The scope is defined in a written SOW before a single dollar changes hands. The X-Ray delivers a report. The Foundation Sprint deploys a working system with infrastructure that keeps running after we hand it off. You're not paying for our hours. You're paying for a defined outcome.
Q: How is this different from a dashboard?
A: Dashboards show what happened. They don't show why. They don't act. The Foundation Sprint closes the loop: signal detected → action drafted → delivered → resolution tracked. The Monday Morning Brief connects findings across systems that your dashboard treats as separate. The curated query library returns cited results with evidence trails, not just metrics. A dashboard shows you a number moved. This system tells you what moved with it — and initiates a response.
Q: We tried AI for operations once. It didn't work.
A: We hear this often. The failure mode is almost always one of three things: the governance layer was an afterthought (so nobody trusted the outputs), the data wasn't production-ready (so the demo worked and the rollout didn't), or the ROI was never defined upfront (so when the budget question came, there was nothing to show). We address all three. The X-Ray starts with your real, production data — not a curated sample. Every finding in the Foundation Sprint carries a full evidence trail. And the scope is defined and priced before work begins, so there's no ambiguity about what you'll have at the end.
Q: Is this a new expense or does it replace something?
A: It depends on what you do with the findings. Most clients use the X-Ray to identify Ghost Waste that more than covers the cost — unused licenses, zombie subscriptions, and unbilled work that, once flagged, pays for the engagement several times over. The Foundation Sprint typically surfaces enough revenue and cost findings in the first 30 days to justify the investment. The hosting fee ($500–$1,500/month) is either justified by what the system protects or it isn't — and the numbers are specific enough that you'll know which.
Q: What happens after the Foundation Sprint?
A: The system stays running on Infrastructure Hosting. Your Monday Brief arrives every week. Your dashboard updates automatically. Your closed-loop automations continue firing. Everything we built keeps working without additional effort from your team. If you want to expand — new integrations, new queries, new automation workflows — those are fixed-price change orders, scoped and approved in writing before work starts. There's no retainer. No open-ended commitment. The hosting fee covers infrastructure. Expansion is a separate, discrete decision.
Q: What about security?
A: Your data runs on physically isolated infrastructure — dedicated databases, dedicated compute, dedicated storage, per client. This is not shared infrastructure with row-level security or tenant tagging. It is physical separation. Your data does not share compute, a database instance, or a storage bucket with any other client's data. During the X-Ray, all provided data exports are stored on encrypted, isolated infrastructure and deleted or returned within 14 calendar days of engagement completion. We execute mutual NDAs and/or DPAs prior to data transfer on request.
Q: Does the X-Ray fee credit toward anything?
A: Yes. 100% of the X-Ray fee credits toward a Foundation Sprint if you proceed within 30 calendar days of report delivery. A $5,000 X-Ray on a $20,000 Foundation Sprint means you pay $15,000 for the Sprint. The credit is non-transferable and expires 30 days after report delivery.
Q: What's the ROI?
A: Specific enough to quantify, not specific enough to guarantee. The X-Ray findings are dollar-quantified where the data supports it — Ghost Waste in unused licenses and zombie subscriptions, Revenue Decay in unbilled work and at-risk ARR, Bus Factor in the cost of an unplanned departure. Typical X-Ray findings range from $40,000 to $200,000+ in identifiable operational waste and revenue exposure. Your team decides what to act on. What we can commit to: a point-in-time answer to where the money is going, delivered in 5–10 days, against your actual data. What we don't commit to: guaranteed savings figures, predicted outcomes, or financial performance claims.
Q: Not sure which level fits?
A: Most clients start with the X-Ray. If the findings point to something specific and contained — one integration to fix, one data source to connect, one automation to wire — we can scope a targeted engagement between the X-Ray and the full Sprint. Every engagement is fixed-scope and fixed-price. Book a call and we'll figure out the right fit together.