Auditable modernization snapshots and procurement-ready exports in minutes—not weeks.
Every plan includes the full AIM scoring engine, architecture diagrams, and procurement-ready exports. Pick the one that matches your team size and modernization scope.
$12,000/year
Full scoring + exports for one operator. Best for a first modernization package.
Starting at $45,000/year
Annual. Scope-dependent.
Multi-user workspace for small departments. Includes onboarding and plan configuration.
Starting at $95,000/year
Annual. Scope-dependent.
For mid-size orgs with dedicated support. Capacity & credit packs available.
Custom Quote
Invoice / PO supported.
Enterprise-scale for cities, hospitals, universities, and large agencies.
Assessment Guest Collaborators
Organization plans include the ability to invite external stakeholders—program managers, CISOs, agency leads—to view or contribute to a specific assessment as guests. Guests are not seat holders: they do not consume a seat, cannot create assessments, and cannot generate reports. They access one assessment via a secure email invite link and a one-time email verification code (two factors). All guest access is logged.
How Snapshot Credits Work
Snapshot credits are an organization-wide annual pool shared across every assessment your organization creates. Credits are consumed when AIM runs a major AI generation operation. The cost per operation:
Charged every time you run it
Charged once — cached after first generation
Always free — no credits consumed
Federal regulatory context only — auto-revealed when required
The following artifacts are only available when an assessment has a federal regulatory scope (FedRAMP, CMMC, ITAR/DFARS) or a federal domain archetype. They are hidden for all other sectors.
Credits do not reset mid-year and do not carry over; they renew with your annual subscription.
Org – Medium and Org – Large can purchase add-on credit packs at any time to extend capacity mid-cycle.
Pilot and Org – Small plans do not have access to credit packs. If you exhaust your annual credits, you will need to upgrade your plan to continue generating outputs.
Annual billing. Invoice/PO supported on Organization plans. Final pricing depends on onboarding scope, compliance requirements, and the number of concurrent modernization tracks.
Need more capacity mid-cycle? Purchase add-on packs as your modernization program grows. Add-ons are optional and can be purchased anytime.
Adds assessment creation capacity to your organization. Each assessment is a full modernization project with scoring, architecture diagrams, and export artifacts.
Org – Medium packs:
Available for Org – Medium only. Org – Large includes unlimited assessments.
Adds snapshot generation capacity. One credit is consumed when AIM creates a new auditable decision snapshot. Regenerating the same outputs without changing inputs is always free.
Org – Medium packs:
Org – Large packs:
Available for Org – Medium and Org – Large. Credits are added to your organization's annual pool and shared across all assessments.
AIM delivers defensible, procurement-ready modernization analysis without the cost or timelines of traditional consulting.
AIM scores every technology option against your constraints using objective RAO dimensions. No preferred vendor list. No billable implementation bias.
Every decision snapshot is hash-linked to the inputs that produced it. Reviewers can verify that recommendations match the stated constraints—no black boxes.
Executive summary, RFP template, implementation guide, vendor brief, and architecture diagrams—all generated from the same auditable snapshot.
After the assessment, track milestones, team capacity, and delivery health with a two-person completion workflow. Leadership sees project status in real time.
AIM is not an implementation contractor. We don't sell billable hours, staff augmentation, or “roll-off into a build phase.”
Instead, AIM provides architecture-level insight and procurement-ready documentation:
Implementation remains your choice. Use your internal team or any implementation partner. AIM doesn't bundle implementation services and doesn't profit from which vendor you pick.
Traditional consulting often blends “recommendation” and “implementation,” which can bias decisions toward whatever increases billable work. AIM separates those phases so the planning stays objective and defensible.
Before a single line of code is written or a vendor is selected, organizations pay consultants to assess what they have, figure out what they need, and recommend a path forward. That “assessment phase” alone is where most of the money goes—and where AIM delivers the most value.
Baltimore is one example of a pattern documented across government, healthcare, and defense worldwide.
See the full documented evidence →The examples below are drawn from public government records, federal labor data, and industry research. They represent real assessment-phase costs—not implementation, not licensing—just the planning and recommendation work.
A mid-size agency or department hires a consulting firm to assess its legacy systems, evaluate vendor options, and produce a modernization roadmap. Here's what that typically looks like:
Estimated Assessment Cost
These are assessment-only costs. Implementation, licensing, and ongoing support are additional.
AIM Pilot: $12,000/year — one operator produces the same vendor-agnostic assessment, modernization roadmap, RFP, and procurement-ready exports in days, not months. Rerun it whenever inputs change.
Baltimore City estimated an $800,000 budget for a website redesign. By mid-2025, costs had risen to a projected $3.9 million—nearly 5× the original estimate. The city had already paid $2.2 million to a software vendor.
Worse: the system was only being upgraded to Drupal 10, even though Drupal 11 was already available—meaning the $3.9 million system would be functionally obsolete at launch. The Baltimore City Inspector General opened a formal investigation (Case No. OIG-25-0038-I) into the procurement and cost escalation.
For context: Baltimore's 2019 RobbinHood ransomware attack—partly enabled by outdated, unassessed infrastructure—cost the city at least $18.2 million in recovery.
Budget → Actual
$800K
$3.9M
4.9× overrun
An upfront AIM assessment could have identified architecture requirements, vendor options, and technology lifecycle risks before procurement— flagging the Drupal obsolescence issue and establishing scope boundaries that prevent mid-project cost explosions.The Freedom Project is based in Baltimore, MD.
The GAO found that federal agencies spend $100+ billion annually on IT, with 80% locked into maintaining legacy systems. Before any modernization begins, agencies commission assessment engagements to evaluate alternatives.
The OMB Federal IT Dashboard shows that even modest technology selection and procurement support engagements cost $200,000–$2 million+ in the assessment phase alone. Large-scale ERP or infrastructure modernization assessments regularly exceed $5 million before a single vendor is selected.
Assessment-Phase Costs (Pre-Implementation)
Source: OMB IT Dashboard and GAO audit data. Amounts reflect assessment/planning phases only.
Even when assessments are completed on time and on budget, the quality of the assessment determines whether the downstream project succeeds. PMI's Pulse of the Profession research finds that organizations waste an average of $122 million for every $1 billion invested in projects due to poor initial planning.
12%
Average waste on IT projects due to poor planning
3–6 mo
Typical duration of a traditional assessment engagement
$0
Amount of traditional assessment work you can re-run for free when inputs change
AIM snapshots are re-runnable and auditable. When constraints change, budgets shift, or stakeholders request a new scenario, you don't pay for another 12-week engagement—you update your inputs and generate a new snapshot in minutes.
Traditional Consulting
AIM Platform
Publicly available sources referenced above. Actual consulting costs vary by scope, compliance requirements, and procurement vehicle.
See your systems before you spend. Start a Pilot or talk to our team about an Organization plan.