Pricing, plainly

What it costs

Most agency sites make you book a call to learn anything about price. Here is as much as can honestly be published before we know what you are building — including the numbers that are already fixed.

The rule: one number, quoted against a scope

Zorm does not bill hourly. Hourly billing pays a vendor to be slow, and it makes you audit timesheets instead of judging results. Every engagement is quoted as a single number against a written scope. If the scope changes, the number is re-quoted before any work starts — there is no mid-project invoice you did not agree to.

What is already published

Where Zorm sells the same thing repeatedly, the price is public and does not move:

Sentinel · productised

$300 per community / month

The full marketing and acquisitions OS — every module included, no per-seat maths. Priced per community so it scales with the portfolio rather than the org chart.

sentinelmos.com →
GlitchXP · published tiers

From $4,500 / month

Game marketing tiers from an indie retainer through to full launch programmes, plus fixed-fee project work quoted per brief. Every tier and minimum is listed publicly.

glitchxp.com/pricing →

What drives the number on bespoke work

Four things, in roughly this order of impact:

  • Surface area. How many screens, roles and states exist. A single-role tool and a multi-tenant platform with permissions are different animals, no matter how similar the pitch sounds.
  • Integration. Work that must talk to systems you already run costs more than work that stands alone — most of the risk in any build lives at the seams.
  • Data. Migrating and reconciling existing records is routinely the most underestimated line in a project. Starting clean is dramatically cheaper than inheriting fifteen years of exceptions.
  • Certainty. A tight brief is cheaper than an open one. If the scope genuinely cannot be pinned down yet, the honest answer is a small paid discovery rather than a large speculative number.

The part most quotes leave out

A build price with no operating plan attached is usually the more expensive option across three years. Software is not a deliverable, it is a liability that produces value — somebody still has to host it, patch it, answer for it and change it when the business changes.

Zorm quotes the run alongside the build, so the number you compare is the real one. If another quote looks cheaper, check whether it includes the ninety days after launch. Usually it does not.

Fixedquoted per scope — never hourly
At costthird-party fees passed through, never marked up
Yourssource, design files and brand system are owned by you

Common questions about price

How much does it cost to hire Zorm?
Engagements are quoted as one number after a written brief, not billed hourly. Where Zorm sells a productised offer the price is public: Sentinel is $300 per community per month, and GlitchXP publishes launch-sprint tiers starting at $4,500 per month. Bespoke brand and platform work is scoped per project, because a brand refresh and a multi-tenant platform are not comparable jobs.
Do you charge hourly?
No. Hourly billing pays a vendor to be slow and forces you to audit timesheets instead of results. Zorm quotes a fixed number against a defined scope, and if the scope changes the number is re-quoted before any work happens.
What does a custom platform actually cost to build?
The honest answer is that the build is rarely the expensive part — the ongoing operation is. A platform quoted at a single build price with no operating plan attached is usually the more expensive option over three years, because someone still has to host it, patch it, support it and change it.
Is there a minimum engagement?
For productised offers, yes — Sentinel and the GlitchXP tiers carry stated minimums so the work has time to compound. Project work has no minimum beyond the scope being big enough to be worth quoting.
What is not included in the price?
Third-party costs that belong to you: domains, hosting where you own the account, paid media spend, and licences for anything Zorm does not build. These are passed through at cost, never marked up.

Want a number for your project?

Describe it in the brief — scope, timing, and what has to be true at the end. You get a quote, not a discovery call.

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