When you transition your operations to Hackspett, you are backed by a hybrid team of automated protocols and human experts:
The AI Protocol (24/7 First-Line): Handles continuous uptime monitoring, automated security patching, log parsing, and ticket routing. (Zero hourly labor cost).
Systems Administrator (The Fixer): Deployed automatically by our AI when a complex server anomaly, bug, or manual update requires human ingenuity.
Compliance Auditor: Ensures your ongoing daily operations remain strictly compliant with GDPR, NIS2 (cybersecurity), and EAA directives.
Phase 1: Command Node Setup (One-Time Onboarding) Even if you already have an existing website or infrastructure, we must integrate it into our secure EU-compliant ecosystem.
Base Setup Fee: €250 – €500 (Determined by the complexity of your existing architecture).
3rd-Party Integrations: + €100 per integration (e.g., connecting external CRM data, payment gateways, or existing social media feeds to the central dashboard).
Phase 2: Ongoing Fractional Management (Monthly) To keep your Cloud Team active, you must select a minimum of 1 billable hour per month for your chosen management services.
The Predictable Track (Retainer): Starting at €20/hour. Pre-book a set number of hours for routine manual maintenance, content updates, or strategic management.
The Flexible Track (Ad-Hoc): Starting at €50/hour. Submit sudden bugs or IT support tickets. Note: Every initiated task is billed as 1 initial started hour + the time required for technical complexity.
The Emergency Track (Rush): €100 – €200/hour. Critical server failure or severe data breach? Immediate priority routing with a strict 24-hour SLA.
Let’s analyze the math of launching a digital foundation. Building a secure, legally compliant architecture requires senior talent, but you do not need them 40 hours a week once the foundation is laid.
The Traditional Hire (Organizational Drain): Hiring a mid-level internal developer costs approximately €4,000/month in base salary. When you add mandatory Swedish employer taxes (Arbetsgivaravgifter), your true cost exceeds €5,200/month. You are paying for 160 hours, but actively receiving only a fraction of that in productive code—the rest is paid idle time.
The Hackspett Cloud Team (Fractional Efficiency): You pay a one-time onboarding fee. After that, you pre-book your required active hours. For example, 20 hours of purely active, highly focused architectural engineering on our Retainer tier (starting at €10/hour) costs you €200/month.
The Result: You access an elite CTO, a Compliance Auditor, and a Systems Developer for a fraction of the cost of a single traditional hire, with zero IP-leakage risk and zero idle-time waste.
Here is a transparent breakdown of what an initial infrastructure and compliance audit costs under our billing engine.
Phase 1: The Initial Audit & Setup (One-Time) To analyze your systems, we must map your architecture and integrate our secure monitoring node.
Base Audit Fee: €500 (For a standard established SME).
3rd-Party Integrations: €100 (e.g., If we also need to audit a third-party CRM or external payment gateway connected to your site).
Phase 1 Total: €600 (One-Time)
Phase 2: Fixing the Gaps (Fractional Hours) If the audit finds code vulnerabilities or EAA compliance failures, you decide how to fix them using our fractional rates. Let's assume the fixes require 5 hours of expert developer time:
The Smart Choice (Pre-Booked Retainer): You pre-book the 5 hours for the month to unlock our lowest tier.
5 hours x €20/hour = €100
The Floaty Choice (Ad-Hoc): You don't commit, and submit the fixes as standard tickets to the Kanban queue.
5 hours x €50/hour = €250
Phase 3: Ongoing Protection (Monthly) To keep our AI vulnerability scanning active and maintain your digital shield, you simply commit to the absolute minimum billing rule.
Monthly Maintenance: 1 hour/month minimum x €20/hour = €20/month.
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