Core
$7,500
Uses your existing brand.
- Branded Admin Portal
- Branded Creator Portal
- Stripe Connect payouts
- Deployed to your infrastructure
For agencies that have their brand locked.
Book Your Free Audit →Honest pricing. No proposals. No bait-and-switch.
All three tiers ship in 30 days. All three come with the same guarantees.
Standard
$10,000
Everything in Core, plus:
- Full brand identity system
- Logo, color palette, typography
- Product UI design system
For agencies upgrading from amateur to SaaS.
Book Your Free Audit →Pro
$15,000
Everything in Standard, plus:
- One specialty module (Sales OS or Delivery OS)
- Advanced analytics dashboard
- Multi-team permissions
For agencies that need a vertical-specific layer.
Book Your Free Audit →Ongoing support
Backbone Care
$499/mo
Bug fixes, small features, 4 hrs/mo
Backbone Care+
$1,499/mo
Care + 8 hrs/mo + monthly strategy call
Backbone Studio
$5,000/mo
Care+ + quarterly feature sprints + on-call priority
You have four ways to fix this.
We’re option four.
| Comparison axis | Hire a CTO | Enterprise Dev Shop | Build It Yourself | Backbone |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cost | $180K+/yr | $60K–$120K | 200+ hours of your time | $7,500–$15,000 |
| Timeline | 6+ months | 4–6 months | 4 months | 30 days |
| You own it | ✓ | Sometimes | ✓ | Completely |
| Branded | DIY | Maybe | Half-effort | Full brand identity |
| Risk | High (hiring) | High (cost) | High (burnout) | Zero (guaranteed) |
| What you actually get | A salary + recruiting headache | Bloated build, dependency on agency | Half-broken Bubble app | A real platform you own, in a month |
You’re not buying $10,000 of software. You’re buying $180,000 of value.
Three guarantees. Zero risk to you.
30 days or we work free
Hard delivery date from kickoff. If we miss day 31, we work every day after — at no charge — until your platform ships.
In love with it, or we iterate free
If you’re not in love with what we ship on launch day, we keep iterating — at no charge — until you are.
You own everything
Source code, database, infrastructure, domain. Deployed to your accounts on your credit card. If Backbone disappeared tomorrow, your business wouldn’t blink.
Questions we get on every sales call.
How do I know you’ll actually deliver?
Three answers. One: we’ve built this for ourselves at ViralVisions — 500 creators run on it daily. Two: every build comes with a 30-day delivery guarantee in the contract. If we miss day 31, we work free until it ships. Three: if you’re not in love with what we deliver, we iterate at no charge until you are. The risk is on us, not you.
Why is your pricing so much lower than enterprise dev shops?
Because we’re not an enterprise dev shop. We’re two operators with a templated stack that lets us ship in 30 days what bloated agencies need six months to build. We charge what the work actually costs, not what the industry says it should cost.
What if we want changes after launch?
Two paths. During the build, changes under 2 hours are included. Bigger changes get quoted as scope additions (we’ll tell you the cost first). After launch, our Care plans cover 4-20 hours/month of dev work depending on tier. You’re never stuck.
What if we outgrow it?
You won’t — and if you do, you own the source code. Hand it to any developer, scale it however you want. The platforms we build are production-grade, not no-code prototypes.
Can we just build this ourselves?
Absolutely. The question is whether you should. You’re already spending 15+ hours a week on operations. If you add "build software" to that pile, where does that time come from? Sales? Creator relationships? Your weekends? We do this every day. We ship in 30 days.
What stack do you use?
Next.js + Supabase + Stripe + Resend, deployed to Vercel. All open standards, all production-grade, all in your accounts. Your team can hire any dev in the world to maintain it after we hand off.
Do I have to pay for hosting separately?
Yes — but most clients spend $0-$50/month for the first 6-12 months because the free tiers cover small operations. By the time you outgrow them, you’re doing $250K+ in payouts through the platform. Hosting is rounding error.
What if you go out of business?
Your platform runs on YOUR accounts. We’re collaborators, not landlords. If Backbone disappears, your business doesn’t blink. That’s the point.
How long is the founding pricing available?
We take 5 founding-cohort builds per month. After we hit 15-20 founding clients total, pricing moves to the standard rate ($25,000 for Pro).
What’s not included in the price?
Native mobile apps, AI features, custom CRM integrations beyond our standard module specs, and ongoing third-party service costs (Vercel, Supabase, Stripe fees). Everything else is in. Full pricing transparency in our offer architecture — happy to walk you through it on the audit call.