The cost of being ready: three options, unbundled
Foundation — $5,000. The full agentic commerce setup:
ACP discovery file, agent purchase backend, /agents page,
llms.txt, JSON-LD structured data, and customer dashboard — all deployed to
your VPS on a single live on-screen session in under an hour, with access revocation confirmed on the call.
Live install in under 60 minutes. Full source code. No payment upfront — you pay only after a successful test on your server.
Full Suite — $20,000. All four agents (discovery, cart, checkout, post-purchase) plus the JARVIS commerce monitoring dashboard, 60-day delivery, and 90 days of post-delivery support. The complete commerce lifecycle — every stage instrumented and agent-driven. The right option when the whole stack is leaking and a single agent will not solve it.
Both Together — $25,000. Full Suite plus the JARVIS SEO content pipeline: autonomous article generation, sitemap management, and Google Indexing API submissions running on your infrastructure. This is the stack that both converts existing traffic and generates new organic traffic. The build also positions your store for AP2 (Google's Agent Payments Protocol) when it ships, since the underlying infrastructure — agent-ready endpoints, ACP compliance, machine-readable store data — is the same foundation both protocols require.
All three options include the same ownership model: full source code, no ongoing license fee, deployed to infrastructure you control. You only pay after a successful test — no invoice is submitted until you've watched the system work on your server.
The cost of being unready
This cost is less visible because it never appears on an invoice. It accumulates in three places.
Missed agent traffic. ChatGPT, Operator, and Perplexity are routing purchases to ACP-compliant stores and skipping the rest. If your store is not agent-ready, you are not losing traffic you can see in your analytics — you are not appearing in a channel you cannot measure yet. The scale of that channel will only become visible after the stores that got there early have built a meaningful advantage.
Compounding SaaS fees. The standard commerce stack — cart recovery, recommendations, post-purchase automation — runs $500–$2,000/month for a store at $30k/month in revenue. At $1,000/month, that is $12,000/year in access fees that produce no owned asset. The fees scale with the business. After 24 months at $1,000/month, you have paid $24,000 and own nothing. The capability is still rented.
Ownership deferred. Every month you continue renting your commerce infrastructure, you defer building something you will eventually need to build — or accept that you never will. The stores that own their agent infrastructure today will have two years of performance data, two years of trained models, and two years of compounding organic content by the time the market normalizes.
What the price includes
The price covers everything inside the engagement:
- Discovery and scoping (understanding your catalog, your session data, your specific problem)
- Agent design and architecture for your specific use case
- Full development — agent logic, API integrations, decision models
- Deployment to your VPS with configuration and testing
- Documentation for your team
- Dedicated VIP email for ongoing support (Foundation); 90 days post-delivery support (Full Suite and Both Together)
The price does not cover your VPS hosting ($10–20/month from your chosen provider), any AI API costs that the agents may incur at runtime (typically $5–30/month at the volumes most stores operate at), or changes to scope that arise after the engagement starts and represent materially different work than what was agreed.
One thing that is part of every initial conversation: a review of your current stack for operational cost savings. This is not guaranteed, but it is common — a store paying for three tools where one replaces two of them at a fraction of the cost. Where savings exist, they get surfaced before the build starts. In many cases, the identified savings partially or fully offset the cost of the engagement over 12–18 months — independent of any revenue gains the agents produce.
The convenience trap
Out-of-the-box tools are built for the median store. The default email sequences, the plug-in recommendation widgets, the standard cart recovery flows — they work passably for the average use case, and they are genuinely easy to set up. That convenience has a cost that is not on the pricing page.
The more you depend on those tools, the more you pay as you grow. Pricing scales with usage. Vendor updates change behavior without your input. Features get deprecated when the vendor pivots. The capability is never quite yours — it is access rights to someone else's system, and those rights come with conditions.
JARVIS and the commerce agent stack work differently. The pipeline uses Resend for email, Google APIs for indexing and analytics, and a small set of other services — some free, some with marginal per-use costs. You hold the API keys. You choose the services. You can swap components as better options emerge. Nothing is locked to a vendor's product roadmap.
The relevant question is not the upfront cost of the build. It is whether the control gap — between renting someone else's defaults and owning something built specifically for your store — is worth closing.
When the cost does not make sense yet
There is a revenue floor below which a custom build is not the right call yet. At $5,000/month in revenue, even a 20% improvement in conversion rate produces $1,000/month — which means the Foundation build pays off in five months. That is still a reasonable investment if you have conviction in the growth trajectory.
Below $5,000/month, or pre-launch, the math is harder to make work without assumptions that may not hold. The application asks about your current revenue and the specific problem you're solving — if the numbers don't support a build yet, the honest answer is to say so rather than take the engagement.
Agents are a performance layer. They improve what is already working. A store that is not yet working — wrong product, wrong audience, wrong pricing — will execute against the wrong premise more efficiently after the build, which is not an improvement.
Support costs go down, not up
This is not a monthly support contract. The build is a discrete engagement — a defined scope, a delivery window, a handoff, and working code you own outright. The ongoing cost is your VPS and your API keys. That is it.
The support included post-handoff is there to bridge the gap between delivery and your team's confidence with the system. As that confidence builds, the need for external support decreases. The system is documented for that reason. The goal is a stack your team can operate, modify, and extend without depending on the builder for every change.
This is structurally different from SaaS tools, where the support cost is baked into a monthly fee forever, and your dependency on the vendor never actually goes down. With this build, the trajectory runs the other way: cost at handoff, knowledge growth after, support dependency approaching zero as your team gets comfortable. The build permanently lowers the cost floor of running your commerce infrastructure.
How payment works
Foundation — Package #1 — carries zero upfront cost. You apply, scope is confirmed, the build is delivered live on a live on-screen session, and payment is made only after you can see the agents running on your server. No invoice goes out until the system is verified on that call. You are not paying for a promise — you are paying for working code you have already watched deploy.
Full Suite and Both Together engagements are structured as milestones with payment tied to delivery stages, discussed during the scoping call after application approval. If the agents are not working as specified at the end of the delivery window, the full amount is returned.
TRANSPARENT PRICING
No hidden costs.
No surprises after yes.
Foundation: you only pay after a successful test on your server. Full Suite $20,000 · Both Together $25,000 · Full source ownership.
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