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Delivery Experienced engineers
Commercials Fixed price, no surprises
Compliance GDPR-native · EU data
Funding Grant-eligible · up to €9,000
01Where to start

Tell us where you are.

Most clients don't arrive knowing whether they need "an AI agent" or "a piece of software." That's fine — we do both. Pick the one that sounds like you.

02What we do

Clear offers. Honest ranges.

Most engagements start with a low-cost, fixed-price scoping sprint — fast, and you keep the deliverable whatever you decide next. Builds are scoped and quoted at a fixed price before we start. Every category shows the typical range an engagement lands in, not a price-per-SKU sheet.

Put AI to work — properly.

Production-grade AI that does real jobs: answering calls, processing documents, qualifying leads, answering questions from your own files. Not demos. Systems that ship, run, and earn their keep.

Most engagements land between €1.5k and €20k, scoped fixed-price.

AI Readiness Sprint
Fixed-price sprint · 1 week
In a week, know exactly where AI is worth it for your business — and where it isn't. You keep the roadmap whatever you decide.
Automation Build
Fixed-price · 2–4 weeks
We take the repetitive work off your team's plate — intake, routing, reporting — and automate it end to end.
AI Agent Build
Fixed-price · 4–8 weeks
A production agent on your data, wired into your tools — Intake, Ledger, Oracle, or Signal — tested, documented, handed over.
AI Integration
Scoped from a Readiness Sprint
Add real AI capability inside the software you already run, without ripping anything out.
03Selected work

Shipped, running, earning its keep.

A look at the kind of systems we build — expertly built, documented, and handed over with the full stack. Representative engagements; details shared under NDA on request.

AI & Automation · Customer support

A support agent that never sleeps

A growing software team was drowning in after-hours support. We built a production agent on their own help centre — answering, resolving, and escalating only what genuinely needs a human.

<2 min
Median first response, day or night
73%
Resolved without a human
TypeScriptNodePostgresOpenAIPineconeAWS
Support agent console — an after-hours conversation resolved with cited help-centre sources
Software · Construction estimating

Bid estimation for Construction

Bills, rates, and tender documents lived in a tangle of spreadsheets. We built Blueprint Crusher — one platform that parses the bill, matches every line to a rate library, and prices a bid in hours, not weeks.

10×
Faster cost build-up
~4 h
Tender to priced bill
TypeScriptPostgresVector searchDocument OCREU hostingStripe
Blueprint Crusher homepage — automated bill pricing with spec intelligence and priced bill of quantities
Websites · Integrations

A fast site that talks to everything behind it

A business outgrew its template. We rebuilt it headless — fast, secure, SEO-ready — and wired it to the CRM and payments so data stopped living in silos.

98/100
Lighthouse performance
0
Manual re-keying of orders
AstroHeadless CMSREST APIsCRM syncCI/CD
Headless marketing site wired to CRM and payments, scoring 98 on Lighthouse
04How we work

Design Build Grow.

A clean three-stage process that de-risks the work and keeps you in control of cost at every step.

STAGE 01

Design

A fixed-price sprint. We understand the problem, scope the solution, and de-risk the hard parts before anyone commits to a big build. You keep the plan either way.

STAGE 02

Build

We build it — experienced engineers, no hand-offs, fixed price, fully documented. You always know what it costs and exactly where it stands.

STAGE 03

Grow

We stay on as a Care plan: maintaining, tuning, and extending what we built. Your software improves over time instead of going stale.

05Why Dark Oak

Built different. Built to last.

01

Hands-on delivery

The engineers who design your system build it. No hand-offs, no account managers in the middle.

02

AI & software under one roof

Most shops do one. We do both — so the solution fits the problem, not our specialism.

03

Fixed price, no surprises

You know the cost before we start. Sprints and builds are fixed-price; Care plans are a flat monthly fee.

04

Your data stays in the EU

GDPR-native, EU-based, built compliant from day one — never retrofitted afterwards.

05

Remote-native

Remote-first delivery, lower overhead than the big-city firms, and we actually answer the phone.

06

We don't disappear

We'll maintain what we build — and adopt and maintain software someone else built, too.

06Pricing

Where it starts.

No "contact us for pricing." Every engagement starts at a clear floor — exact scope and a fixed price are agreed in writing on the discovery call, before any work begins.

Sprints
€1,500+
Short, fixed-price scoping work. You keep the deliverable.
AI & automation
€4k+
Agent builds and automations, scoped fixed-price.
Software & web
€8k+
Custom apps, web platforms, integrations.
Care & support
€100/mo
Monitoring, patching, an experienced engineer on call.

All prices ex-VAT. Final cost is always agreed in writing before we start — no surprises, no scope creep.

07Funding

Get it part-funded by the State.

Many Irish businesses qualify for the Enterprise Ireland Digitalisation Voucher and Local Enterprise Office grants. We help you identify and apply for the right support, so your project can be substantially state-funded. Ask us on your discovery call.

up to €9,000Enterprise Ireland Digitalisation Voucher
08Questions

The things everyone asks.

Every engagement is fixed-price. Sprints start at €1,500, AI and automation builds from €4k, software and web apps from €8k, and Care plans from €100/month. We agree the number before any build begins — no "contact us for pricing," no surprises on the invoice.

Sprints run 1–2 weeks. Most builds land in 2–12 weeks depending on scope, larger custom platforms in 10–16. We scope the timeline with you during the sprint, so you know the shape of it before committing.

You do — fully, including everything from a sprint, whether or not you build on with us. We hand over the code, the documentation, and the deployment, and you can take it anywhere.

In the EU. We're GDPR-native and EU-based, and compliance is built in from day one rather than retrofitted. Data residency stays inside the EU unless you explicitly need otherwise.

Yes. We adopt and maintain existing apps, sites, and agents — auditing what's there, stabilising it, and putting it on a Care plan with an experienced engineer on the other end of the line.

Often, yes. Many Irish businesses qualify for the Enterprise Ireland Digitalisation Voucher (up to €9,000) and Local Enterprise Office grants. We help you identify and apply for the right support — just ask on your discovery call.

Let's build something that lasts.

Tell us where you are. You'll get a free 30-minute call with an experienced engineer — not a salesperson — and an honest answer on whether we can help.

  • 01

    You send a few lines

    The form, an email, or a call — whatever's easiest.

  • 02

    An experienced engineer calls you back

    Thirty minutes, no hard sell. We tell you honestly if we can help.

  • 03

    You get a fixed-price proposal

    Clear deliverables, clear timeline, clear number — yours to keep.

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