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For small business · 10–100 employees · Fixed-fee

Pick the engagement. See the price. Book the call.

Most consulting feels like you have to buy a quote before you can buy the work. AC5 Labs publishes prices across the kinds of work small businesses actually need: SOPs, audits, financial models, data setup, and custom software. Pick what fits, see the price, book the call.

Engagement catalog

Productized work, published prices.

Every engagement has a written quote within 48 hours of the discovery call. Software-agnostic where it makes sense; published price bands reflect the platforms you choose. Larger or fully bespoke scopes get quoted separately.

Showing 20 of 20 engagements

Quality & Compliance

SOP Pack

$3,500 – $6,500

2–3 weeks

Five to ten styled, version-stamped SOPs covering your core operating workflow. Two iteration rounds. Editable source files and printable PDFs.

Quality & Compliance

QMS Gap Assessment

$4,500 – $8,500

3–4 weeks

ISO 9001, AS9100, or industry-specific gap analysis. Findings document organized by risk and effort, prioritized remediation roadmap, executive readout.

Quality & Compliance

Compliance Starter

$7,500 – $14,000

4–6 weeks

Right-sized quality and compliance foundation. Document control, internal audit, corrective action, and management review SOPs plus training log and review cadence.

Quality & Compliance

Internal Audit Program Setup

$5,500 – $10,000

3–4 weeks

Audit program design, audit calendar, checklists tailored to your framework, findings classification, CAR / PAR workflow, mock-audit walkthrough.

Quality & Compliance

CMMC L2 Pre-Assessment Sprint

$9,500 – $18,000

4–6 weeks

NIST SP 800-171 control-by-control review, gap report, evidence-collection plan, SPRS guidance, and pre-audit walkthrough sized for SMB DoD subcontractors.

Process Improvement

DMAIC Improvement Project

$7,500 – $15,000

6–8 weeks

One operational workflow targeted with Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control. Statistical baseline, improvement plan, control plan, and 30 / 60 / 90-day review.

Process Improvement

KPI & SLA Design Sprint

$4,500 – $9,000

3–4 weeks

Measurement system design with KPIs and SLA targets. Executive dashboards, ownership and review cadence, edge-case handling documented.

Process Improvement

Root-Cause Analysis Workshop

$2,500 – $5,000

1–2 weeks

Facilitated 5-Why and Fishbone session on a real recurring issue, plus reusable RCA templates and a corrective-action workflow your team can run on its own.

Auditing

Internal Controls Walk-Through

$4,000 – $8,500

2–3 weeks

Financial and operational control review. Walk-through interviews, gap documentation, prioritized recommendations, and leadership readout.

Auditing

External Audit Prep Package

$6,500 – $12,000

3–5 weeks

Evidence-binder build, walk-through preparation, and a mock audit using assessor-style questions. Designed for ISO surveillance, financial, or single-audit triggers.

Financial & Ops

Three-Statement Financial Model

$4,000 – $8,500

2–3 weeks

3-year P&L, balance sheet, and cash-flow model with documented drivers and scenario sensitivities. Ready for lender, investor, or board review.

Financial & Ops

13-Week Cash-Flow Forecast

$3,500 – $7,000

2 weeks

Rolling 13-week cash forecast with AR / AP aging analysis, working-capital review, weekly refresh template, and operator training.

Financial & Ops

Budget vs Actuals Reconciliation

$2,500 – $5,000

1–2 weeks

Reconciliation workflow plus a reusable monthly close template. Variance analysis structure documented, owner trained, first month run alongside.

Data & Databases

Database Schema Setup

$3,500 – $8,000

2–3 weeks

Schema design, normalization, row-level security policies, migration scripts, and ER diagram. Software-agnostic. Cost reflects the platform you choose.

Data & Databases

Data Analysis Engagement

$3,000 – $7,500

2–3 weeks

Dataset preparation, exploratory analysis, statistical findings, and an executive readout with prioritized recommendations. Software-agnostic.

Data & Databases

Self-Service Reporting Dashboard

$5,500 – $12,000

3–5 weeks

Operational reporting dashboard built on your existing data, with documented refresh process and end-user training. Cost reflects the BI platform you choose.

Software & SaaS

Workflow Automation Sprint

$5,500 – $12,000

3–5 weeks

One repetitive workflow automated end-to-end, intake to output, with audit trail. Software-agnostic. Cost reflects the integrations and platforms involved.

Software & SaaS

Internal Tool Build

$8,500 – $22,000

4–8 weeks

Custom web app for one workflow your team currently runs in spreadsheets. Auth, role-based permissions, audit log, and ownership transfer at handoff.

Software & SaaS

SaaS MVP

$18,000 – $40,000

8–12 weeks

Multi-tenant SaaS with authentication, subscription billing, a focused core workflow, and production deployment. Software-agnostic stack. Cost reflects the platforms you choose.

Software & SaaS

AI-Integrated SaaS MVP

$25,000 – $60,000

10–14 weeks

Everything in the standard SaaS MVP plus LLM integration, document OCR, or retrieval-augmented generation. Right-sized for the use case, not the AI hype cycle.

Not seeing it

Anything else gets a written framing first.

If your problem doesn't fit the catalog cleanly, book a discovery call. We'll come back with a one-page written framing of the problem and a recommended approach within 48 hours, before any quote.

Small business

One session. One decision. One deliverable.

No 12-field intake form. No three-week quote process. Tell us what you need; if we can help, you get a written quote within 48 hours of the first call. If we can't, we'll tell you who can.