What we charge for, and why
Why PPCN charges for know-how, quoted per task, with the software included.
PPCN · November 2026
For most of the history of business software, the expensive part was writing it. A system took a team of developers months, and the price followed the hours of code.
That has changed. With today's AI coding tools, an experienced team can build in days what took a quarter in 2022. Code is close to becoming a commodity. A price based on lines of code no longer tells a client what they are buying.
What has not become cheap is judgement. Knowing which problem is worth solving. Seeing why a report is wrong before anyone acts on it. Choosing the system the company can still run in five years. Saying no to an AI tool that would cost more than it saves. Those calls come from experience, and they decide whether a project pays back.
So we charge for that experience, quoted for each task before we start. The software, the code and the systems we build are included. When we finish, they belong to the client: the accounts, the data and the source.
A first engagement starts with a two-week discovery, priced before it begins. We map how the work moves today, rank three improvements by money saved, and build one working prototype on the client's own data. The client then decides whether to continue, with no lock-in either way.
The model has a consequence we like. Our interest is to solve the problem in as few hours as possible, and to leave the client able to run what we built. A team paid by the line of code has the opposite interest.