Pricing & Offers
Simple, transparent pricing. $25,000 one-time license acquisition + $20 per user per month for the full platform — 176+ apps, unlimited AI personas, internal AI inferencing. Deploy on your hardware, Azure, AWS, GCP, or any Kubernetes cluster. Every new customer starts with a 4-week onboarding engagement.
🎯 Luca AI Express License
+ $25,000 one-time license acquisition fee
The full platform. Per-seat license after the one-time acquisition fee. Customer deploys on their own infrastructure — bare metal, private cloud, Azure, AWS, GCP, or any Kubernetes-compatible environment. No per-token fees, no add-on tiers, no hidden meters.
- $25,000 one-time license acquisition fee (paid at contract signing)
- All 176+ apps included
- Unlimited AI personas & autonomous agents
- Voice, email, WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Discord, SMS
- Internal AI inferencing — no per-token cost
- Inference servers run inside your deployment — tokens generated locally
- BYOK supported (route to OpenAI / Anthropic / Azure / Ollama if preferred)
- PostgreSQL HA, Kubernetes-native architecture
- Deploy anywhere: on-prem hardware, Azure, AWS, GCP, Oracle Cloud, any K8s cluster
- Air-gapped / VPC / sovereign cloud fully supported
- Full source-level access to your installation
- EgressGuard DLP + RBAC (5 default roles, customizable)
- NVIDIA Inception Program member — H100/H200 inference patterns
- 24/7 AI Tier-1 support · business-hours human Tier-2
- 99% app/API SLA when deployed per reference architecture
- Customer covers all infrastructure costs (cloud / hardware / GPU / network)
🚀 Onboarding Engagement
Every new customer starts here. 4 weeks of dedicated engineering at $200/hour — $32,000 minimum. Discovery, architecture, deployment, persona setup, training, and live cutover.
- Mandatory for all new customer setups
- 4 weeks × 40 hours = 160 hours minimum
- $200/hour · $32,000 minimum total
- Week 1: Discovery, requirements, architecture review
- Week 2: Cluster provisioning, data migration plan, integrations scoped
- Week 3: Persona configuration, channel setup, custom workflows
- Week 4: User training, go-live, post-launch monitoring
- Led by founder or senior engineer
- Includes data migration up to 5 source systems
- Larger or more complex setups quoted at additional 4-week increments
🧠 Ongoing Consulting
Available after onboarding for custom development, AI fine-tuning, integrations, and platform extensions. Optional — many customers self-serve after the initial 4-week engagement.
- $200/hour · minimum 8 hours per engagement
- Custom AI agent & persona development
- Model fine-tuning, document AI, computer vision, RAG pipelines
- Custom integrations (ERP, CRM, ticketing, internal systems)
- Performance tuning & scaling consultation
- Compliance & security review (SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR)
- Architecture reviews & capacity planning
- Available retainer-based: 40 hr/month, 80 hr/month, 160 hr/month
- Discount on retainer: 10–15% off hourly rate
Example Customer Sizes
Year-1 cost examples: $25,000 one-time license acquisition + $32,000 onboarding + 12 months at $20/seat. Year 2 onward is just the recurring license — no acquisition fee, no onboarding.
Small Team — 25 seats
$25,000 license acquisition
+ $32,000 onboarding
+ $6,000/year license ($500/mo)
Year-1 total: $63,000
Year-2+: $6,000/year
Mid-Market — 150 seats
$25,000 license acquisition
+ $32,000 onboarding
+ $36,000/year license ($3,000/mo)
Year-1 total: $93,000
Year-2+: $36,000/year
Enterprise — 500 seats
$25,000 license acquisition
+ $32,000 onboarding
+ $120,000/year license ($10,000/mo)
Year-1 total: $177,000
Year-2+: $120,000/year
Large Enterprise — 2,000 seats
$25,000 license acquisition
+ $32,000 onboarding
+ $480,000/year license ($40,000/mo)
Year-1 total: $537,000
Year-2+: $480,000/year
Deploy Anywhere
Luca AI Express is customer-deployed. We do not operate a hosted SaaS — the platform runs entirely on your infrastructure, under your control, in any environment that supports Kubernetes. Your data never leaves your boundary.
🏠 On-Premises / Bare Metal
Deploy on your own hardware. Air-gapped, sovereign-cloud, or behind your firewall. Common for regulated industries (finance, healthcare, defense, government).
☁️ Microsoft Azure
AKS cluster + Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server (or CloudNativePG operator) + Azure Storage. Managed Identity for service auth. Cloudflare or Azure Front Door for ingress.
☁️ Amazon Web Services
EKS cluster + Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL (or self-managed) + S3 for object storage. IAM roles for service auth. ALB or Cloudflare for ingress.
☁️ Google Cloud Platform
GKE cluster + Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL + GCS for storage. Workload Identity for service auth. Cloud Load Balancer or Cloudflare for ingress.
☁️ Oracle Cloud / IBM Cloud / Other
Any Kubernetes 1.28+ cluster works. Helm chart provided. Reference architectures available for OCI, IBM Cloud, DigitalOcean, Linode, and bare-metal Rancher / k3s.
🧬 Sovereign / Air-Gapped
Fully offline-capable installation. Customer-controlled image registry. No outbound internet required. Common for defense, intelligence, and sovereign-cloud customers.
Reference Hardware / Cluster Specs
The platform is Kubernetes-native. Your existing cluster is fine if it meets these minimums. The onboarding engagement validates capacity and provisions the deployment.
💻 Compute (Application Pool)
2 nodes minimum · 16 vCPU & 64 GB RAM each
Hosts gateway, comms, brain workers. Scales horizontally with seat count.
💾 Database
PostgreSQL 17.x with HA
3-replica via CloudNativePG, Azure Flexible, RDS, or Cloud SQL. 500 GB minimum, scales with usage.
🎮 GPU (Inference Pool, Optional)
1+ NVIDIA A2/L4/H100/H200
Required only for internal token generation. Skip if using BYOK external providers.
🌐 Network
1 Gbps minimum bandwidth
10 Gbps recommended for voice/video. Static egress IP for messaging integrations.
🔒 Storage
2 TB block + 1 TB object minimum
Encrypted at rest. SSD-class. Snapshots/backup configured per customer policy.
🛡️ Support Model
Tier 1 (AI): 24/7. Password resets, config, troubleshooting.
Tier 2 (Human): Business hours, complex issues. Available as retainer.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is onboarding mandatory?
Luca AI Express deploys a complete business platform — CRM, communications, AI personas across 7 channels, custom workflows. A 4-week structured engagement ensures correct architecture, clean data migration, persona configuration aligned to your operations, and trained users. Customers who skip structured onboarding consistently underperform on adoption.
What does "internal AI inferencing" mean?
Most AI platforms charge per AI token (per request to OpenAI / Anthropic). Luca AI Express ships inference servers as part of the platform itself — they run on your GPU node pool inside your cluster, generating tokens locally without any external API call. Reference patterns provided through the NVIDIA Inception program. The $20/seat license includes the inference layer; you cover only your own GPU hardware/cloud cost. No per-token surcharge, no usage anxiety, predictable license bill.
Can I bring my own LLM keys (BYOK)?
Yes. Customers who prefer to use their own OpenAI / Anthropic / Azure / Ollama / local model keys can do so at no extra cost. The Multi-Model Bridge architecture routes between providers transparently. The $20/seat price stays the same regardless.
Is air-gapped deployment supported?
Yes. The platform is fully offline-capable. Customer-controlled image registry, no outbound internet required. Common for defense, intelligence, sovereign-cloud, and regulated-finance customers.
What's the minimum customer size?
No formal seat minimum, but the combined $25,000 license acquisition + $32,000 onboarding = $57,000 upfront generally makes sense from ~25 seats and up. For smaller teams, contact sales — we'll discuss whether the platform is the right fit.
Why a one-time license acquisition fee?
The $25,000 fee covers initial licensing rights, IP indemnification, your customer-specific Helm chart and configuration package, dedicated documentation portal access, and the legal / compliance paperwork for sovereign deployment. It is paid once at contract signing and never recurs. Year 2 and beyond is purely the $20/seat recurring license.
How long does onboarding actually take?
4 weeks is the minimum. Most mid-market customers complete onboarding in 4–6 weeks. Larger enterprises with complex integrations or compliance reviews may extend to 8–12 weeks — quoted in 4-week increments at $32,000 each.
Can I move my deployment between clouds?
Yes. Because Luca AI Express is Kubernetes-native and deployed via Helm, you can migrate between Azure / AWS / GCP / on-premises with no license change. Cloud migration projects are typically a 2–4-week consulting engagement at $200/hr.
Do you operate a hosted SaaS version?
No. Luca AI Express is customer-deployed only. The platform runs entirely inside your infrastructure boundary. We don't store, process, or hold your data — that is a deliberate architectural choice driven by customer demand for data sovereignty and the regulated-industry segments we focus on (healthcare, finance, defense, government, and large enterprises with strict data residency requirements).
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