How much does it cost to set up Claude for a business?

Setting up Claude for a business costs $2,000 for The Setup or from $10,000 for The Implementation, paid once, with no subscription. Those are Ortopylot's published prices and they are the whole ladder. The Setup puts your brand into Claude as a structured foundation and shows your team how to use it. The Implementation runs the full engagement: the foundation, then working systems built around your real documents, then the team trained on their own work until it is normal. Ongoing operations, where Ortopylot stays on and runs the system with you, are arranged separately. Where a brand needs defining first, that is built as a stage inside the engagement rather than sold as a separate project. Everything below is what each price contains and what moves an implementation above its floor, so you can place your own business on the ladder before talking to anyone.

The Setup is $2,000

The Setup is $2,000, paid once, and it contains four things: your brand captured, structured into a foundation built for Claude to apply, installed into your team's Claude environment, and your team shown how to work with it. From then on the documents your team makes with Claude come out on brand and formatted, with no reformatting afterwards and no drift between people.

The foundation is a full set of foundational documents built in a specific structure, which is the part that makes the output hold where an uploaded brand guide drifts. The Setup ends with a handover. Nothing recurs and nobody from Ortopylot sits in your workflow afterwards.

The Implementation starts at $10,000

The Implementation starts at $10,000, paid once, and runs in three stages. Stage one is the brand foundation, the same work as The Setup. Stage two builds working systems around the documents your business actually produces, so reports assemble themselves and posts and releases arrive ready to review. Stage three is adoption: the team trained on their own real documents, this week's proposal and this month's report, until producing finished work with Claude is simply how the company writes.

Pulse Technology Hub is a full implementation running in the energy and resources sector, and the Pulse case study shows what the three stages delivered for a real team.

What moves an implementation above $10,000

Three things move the price above the floor: more document types, more systems, and more people to train. A business that produces proposals and a monthly report sits near $10,000. A business that also publishes articles, releases, vendor materials, and client reports needs more of the foundation and more systems built, so the price moves with that scope. Team size matters because stage three trains people on their own live work, and twenty writers take longer than six. The price is fixed before the engagement starts, once the document list and the headcount are known.

You pay once

Every Ortopylot price is a one-off. There is no subscription, no monthly fee, and no retainer built into the ladder. The engagement ends with a handover and the system is yours to run. Ongoing operations, where Ortopylot stays on and runs the system with you, are by arrangement.

If you do not have a brand yet

A business without a defined brand pays for the definition as a stage inside the engagement. The brand is built first, then structured into the same foundation, so the engagement produces both the brand and the system that applies it. It is scoped into the fixed price up front rather than quoted as a separate branding project.

See how it works at ortopylot.com/how-it-works. Two minutes on what we would build, then tell us about your business and the documents your team makes.