Why Our Pricing Makes Sense

Clear value. Predictable costs. Professional results — powered by secure AI and human expertise.

Stratiform AI was created to give small businesses, sole traders, consultants, and growing organisations access to high-quality, structured documentation without the cost, complexity, or overhead of doing the work in-house.

Large organisations can afford specialist staff, internal review cycles, and enterprise AI tooling. Most smaller organisations cannot — and the gap between those who can leverage AI effectively and those who can’t is growing fast.

Our pricing is designed to close that gap.

Our pricing principle

You should pay significantly less than the true cost of producing the same work internally — while receiving faster turnaround, higher consistency, and complete confidentiality.

We don’t charge for software licences, training, or long-term contracts. You pay for outcomes.

The True Cost of Doing It In-House

Producing clear, accurate, decision-ready documentation takes more than just time. It requires experience, structure, review, and the right tools — all of which carry hidden costs that are rarely visible on a balance sheet.

Even relatively straightforward documents often involve:

  • multiple drafts

  • internal review and approval cycles

  • formatting and polishing

  • management oversight

  • and time taken away from higher-value work

For more complex outputs — such as proposals, board papers, business cases, or leadership briefings — these costs increase sharply.

Cost Comparison: In-House vs Stratiform AI

Cost basis note:
 The £35/hour estimate shown above reflects the average fully-loaded cost of a mid-tier employee, including salary, employer National Insurance contributions, pension contributions, essential IT hardware, software, and estates or office overheads. This is a widely used industry benchmark for calculating the real cost of knowledge-based work in small and medium-sized organisations.

What This Means in Practice

Most organisations unknowingly spend £430–£550 or more producing a single internal document — often significantly more once revisions, second drafts, and leadership review time are included.

Stratiform AI typically delivers equivalent or higher-quality outputs for £150–£250, with turnaround times that internal teams often struggle to match.

Just as importantly, your staff remain focused on decisions, delivery, and growth — not formatting documents or rewriting drafts late at night.

How We Price Our Services

Rather than forcing clients into rigid packages or subscriptions, Stratiform AI works on a proposal-based model:

  • You tell us what you’re trying to achieve

  • We confirm what we can deliver

  • We agree scope, outputs, and price upfront

  • Work is delivered professionally and securely

  • Payment is made by invoice

This ensures pricing is fair, transparent, and aligned to your actual needs — not arbitrary tiers.

Typical pricing guidance

  • Standard document support: from £150
    (summaries, refinements, rewrites, enhancements)

  • Complex or analytical documents: from £250
    (proposals, board papers, business cases, leadership or strategic documents)

For larger volumes, ongoing support, or bespoke workflows, your account manager will design a tailored arrangement based on your workload, sector, and timelines.

Why This Approach Works

Stratiform AI isn’t selling software or templates. We’re providing a secure, human-supervised service that applies AI where it delivers real value — and nowhere it introduces risk.

You get:

  • predictable costs

  • professional-grade outputs

  • faster turnaround

  • no training burden

  • no infrastructure investment

  • and no compromise on confidentiality

The result is documentation that supports better decisions, clearer communication, and faster progress — without expanding headcount or overhead.

Not Sure Where to Start?

That’s exactly why we offer a Try Stratiform AI — Free option.

Use a real document, a real requirement, and experience the process first-hand. From there, we’ll outline how Stratiform AI can support you further — if and when it makes sense.

FAQ — Your Questions Answered

“Isn’t AI free?”

Public AI tools can appear free — but they are not suitable for confidential business documents, and they cannot produce structured, decision-ready outputs without expert guidance.
Stratiform AI operates a private, secure, ring-fenced AI environment with full human oversight, professional editing and compliance.

“Can I just paste my notes into ChatGPT myself?”

You can — but the results will almost always require significant rewriting. Public AI models:

  • invent facts

  • misinterpret context

  • lack business-grade structure

  • cannot follow organisational tone

  • cannot safely process sensitive material

  • produce outputs unsuitable for leadership or client use

Stratiform AI turns your raw material into credible, accurate, and professionally structured documents you can immediately use — with no further editing required.

“Is this actually cheaper than doing it internally?”

Yes — by a significant margin.
Most SMEs spend £430–£550+ of staff time per document when factoring in salary, overheads, software and revision cycles.
Our pricing is typically 60–75% cheaper, with far higher consistency and reliability.

“Do I need to understand AI to use this service?”

Not at all.
You do not need technical knowledge, training or software. You simply upload your documents, and we do the rest.

“How secure is your process?”

Extremely.
All work is completed within an encrypted, private environment accessible only to authorised Stratiform AI personnel.
No data enters public AI models.
Nothing is used to train systems.
Your documents remain confidential at all stages.