Prices
What it costs
A paid pilot, then a fixed fee for the build, then an annual subscription. Every figure below excludes VAT.
What you pay follows what you want built. The build fees here are typical ranges, for one area or for several built together. Your own fee is fixed in writing at the end of the pilot, once we have seen your data.
The pilot
Three to four weeks on your own data, answering one question you choose. How the pilot runs.
€14,500, fixed. It is the one figure here that does not move, and if a build follows the pilot, the whole fee is credited against it.
The builds
Each build is one fixed implementation fee, written down once the definitions are agreed. Anything outside the scope is quoted before it is built, never after.
| Build | Implementation fee |
|---|---|
| One area | Typically €45,000 to €90,000 |
| Several areas built together | Typically €100,000 to €200,000 |
An area is one part of what we build: commercial analytics; S&OP planning; budgeting, forecasting and board reporting; product cost and production analytics; or strategy and the long-range plan.
The subscription
It pays for four things: the system hosted wherever we agreed it should run, every update, support from the people who built it, and a day in every quarter for the small changes a reporting calendar keeps producing. Everyone at your company who needs the system is covered, and adding a person costs nothing.
Hosting is only one part of it, so the figure does not move because your database grew. What moves it is how much software there is to keep running.
Starts at €24,000 a year, agreed with the build fee.
One subscription, however many builds
You never pay a subscription per build. When you add a build, your one subscription is re-set to whichever is greater: €24,000 a year, or 20% of all your build fees so far. With each area built for €45,000, the bottom of its range, it works like this:
| What you have built | Build fees so far | Subscription |
|---|---|---|
| One area | €45,000 | €24,000 a year, because 20% of the build fee is less |
| Add a second area | €45,000 + €45,000 | Still €24,000 a year, because 20% of the two is still less |
| Add a third area | €45,000 + €45,000 + €45,000 | 20% of the three, because that is now more than €24,000 |
If you host it yourself
If the system runs on your own servers, we take the hosting out and the subscription starts at €18,000 a year. That is instead of €24,000, not on top of it. It does not drop further, because supporting a system on servers we do not run takes more of our time.
What moves a fee
Where a fee falls in its range depends on the shape of the work. For commercial analytics, the bottom of the range assumes one legal entity, two years of history, one sales file and one cost file from systems you already run, and one set of definitions.
A second legal entity, a second source system, or customer codes that differ between systems all mean more work. The pilot shows which of them apply to you, and each is priced into the scope before any of it is built. It works the other way too: one entity, one clean export and definitions your team has already written down cost less, and the quote says so.
VAT and payment
A VAT-registered business elsewhere in the EU is invoiced under the reverse charge (Article 196, Council Directive 2006/112/EC); domestic businesses are invoiced with domestic VAT; businesses outside the EU are invoiced as an export of services. The country of establishment and the VAT number are in the imprint.
The pilot is invoiced in full when it starts. A build is invoiced in three parts: when the scope is signed, when you review the system on your own data, and at go-live. The subscription is invoiced yearly, in advance, and the first subscription year is invoiced at go-live. Invoices fall due 30 days from their date.
Start with the pilot.
Tell us what you make, move or sell, what you would like built, and which systems the data comes from. A paragraph is plenty.
Tell us your business need, or ask for a worked example on your figures — we want to hear it.
Or email support@mistlight.eu