Five questions prospects ask
before signing.

Our team prices by engagement — a written scope, a typical length, and a list of what you keep at the end. We are not a staffing pyramid and we are not in a price war with the systems integrators. We are a different class of vendor: a named engagement lead who carries the work end to end, with smaller overhead and a scope you can read.

For most of what we are hired for, the comparison reads like this — you pay for the engagement, not for an account manager, a partner, a junior team, and the layers between them. The three tiers on our pricing page are written so the cost and the deliverable line up on the same page, before billing starts.

A Discovery Sprint lands in one to two weeks. A Migration Project runs four to twelve weeks, depending on the surface area and the stack. A Monthly Retainer is rolling — it continues as long as there is work worth doing together, and ends when there isn't.

Variance comes from the seams — how much of the system is yours to read, how many integrations we are inheriting, whether AI systems are in scope and how much of the policy rail needs to be built new. We reason about the variance on the first call, in writing, before billing starts — and if the shape of the work changes, we discuss it before we do it, not after.

Intelligence engineering is the practice our CEO, Jameson, named for the work our team delivers: data engineering, AI systems and agents built on your data, and the governance that keeps AI output reliable and human-owned. It is the same three families across engagements — the stack you have decides which one carries the most weight.

• Ingest, transformation, and serving pipelines across managed cloud and on-prem — AWS, GCP, Azure, and bare metal — chosen per workload, not per habit.
• AI systems — model integrations, retrieval layers, evaluation harnesses — grounded in your data and held up by the policy rails around them.
• Governance — schema discipline, audit trails, and verification harnesses so a reviewer can trace any output back to its source.

Seneca is a veteran-owned small business, founded and led by our CEO, Jameson Welch — the same person who carries every engagement end-to-end. The veteran-owned framing is the firm's starting point: a written discipline, a contract you can read, and a team that does not disappear into layers. It is not a marketing line, and it is not a procurement shortcut — it is just how the firm is built.

Set-aside eligibility is a downstream signal — it flows into federal and state contracting vehicles where the vehicle supports it, and we are happy to share the documentation your procurement team needs to confirm on its side. It does not change how our team scopes, builds, or hands the work off, and it does not change the quality of the engagement when an award is competitive rather than set-aside. The same named engagement lead carries the work either way.

Our team hands off with the rails already built — model integrations grounded in your data, a retrieval layer wired to the sources that matter, and evaluation harnesses that catch drift before a reviewer would. Your team inherits a system that is auditable back to its source, not a demo that drifts the day we leave. The day-one posture is operability, not novelty.

Policy rails — the access boundaries, the human-in-the-loop checks, the schema discipline, the runbooks — are written and reviewed with your team before hand-off. We do not promise a model that runs itself; we promise a system your team can operate, a handover document they can hold us to, and a retainer option to keep us on call for the questions that come up in the first quarter of production traffic.