Pricing

One price per product,
set by how complex it is

No hourly rate and no per-task arithmetic. We look at what your product does, tell you which band it sits in, and that is the price. The first year of hosting is included.

Band 1

Simple product

$2,500
per product, one-time

Up to about four straightforward steps, one hand at a time, with generous tolerances.

  • Pick up, carry, place
  • Pour, tip, shake
  • Open or close a lid or drawer
  • Press a large button or switch
  • Stir, wipe, sweep

Typical: a boxed food mix, a spray bottle, an appliance with one control.

Band 2 · most products

Standard product

$4,500
per product, one-time

Up to about eight steps, including coordinated work where both hands do different things at once.

  • Hold and twist a cap or portafilter
  • Brace and pull
  • Seat a lid or panel two-handed
  • Insert a cartridge or pod
  • Thread a cap or collar

Typical: an espresso machine, a cordless drill with a chuck, a blender with a locking jug.

Band 3

Complex product

Quoted
after a feasibility review

Fine assembly, sub-centimetre tolerances, or steps where the fingers hide the very thing they are working on.

  • Align and drive a screw
  • Small-button sequences
  • Electrical or fluid connectors
  • Assembly where parts move under the hand
  • More than about eight steps

Why no number: this is the frontier of what our rig measures reliably. We assess it first and either quote honestly, or tell you it is not a fit yet and refund your deposit.

A $500 deposit reserves your slot and is credited against the total. Your hosting renewal rate stays locked at the rate you signed at.

In every band

What the price covers

The same deliverables whichever band your product lands in. The band sets the price, not what you get.

Worked examples

A simple product and a complex one

Two real products, the steps we would document for each, and why each lands in the band it does. Shipping is excluded from both and quoted separately.

Band 1 · simple

Boxed cake mix

$2,500
5 steps · one hand throughout
  1. Open the box and tear the liner
  2. Empty the mix into a bowl
  3. Add the eggs, oil and water
  4. Stir until combined
  5. Pour into the pan

Why Band 1: every step is a large single-handed motion with centimetres of tolerance, and the hand stays well observed by the camera the whole way through, so the solve is reliable on the first pass. The bill of materials ("3 eggs, ½ cup oil, 1 cup water") travels inside the manifest.

Band 2 · standard

Espresso machine

$4,500
7 steps · coordinated two-handed work
  1. Fill and reseat the water reservoir
  2. Dose the basket
  3. Tamp level
  4. Seat the portafilter and twist to lock
  5. Start the shot
  6. Steam and texture the milk
  7. Knock out the puck and rinse

Why Band 2: locking the portafilter and tamping need both hands solved well at the same time, and the hand facing away from the camera is always the harder one, so it earns its own verification pass. A descaling sequence with small-button steps would push this into Band 3 and be quoted separately.

Add-ons & pass-throughs

The only other line items

No surprises at invoice time. If it is not on this page, we will not bill you for it.

3D scanning

We need your product's geometry to place the hands against it correctly. Waived entirely if you send CAD in any format: STEP, STL, OBJ or native. Your CAD is better than our scan, so this one is in both our interests.

$300waived with CAD

Re-publish an existing tag

Product changed, steps renamed, bill of materials updated, or a new language. A data-only revision against the same capture, published to the tag your label already carries.

$400per revision

Additional product variant

A second SKU performing the same steps on near-identical geometry, such as a different colourway or size. Its own tag and manifest, without a second full capture.

$900per variant

Re-shoot

If you change the product enough that the captured motion no longer applies, it is a new capture at the band rate. We will say so up front rather than quietly re-publishing stale data.

Band ratenew capture

Inbound shipping

You ship the product to the studio at your cost. We email the address once your deposit clears, and turnaround begins the day it arrives.

Your costdirect to carrier

Return shipping

Optional. Tick the box on the form below and we will quote the return cost before shipping. Anything not returned is held as reference only with your written approval, or securely disposed of.

Quotedat cost, no markup
After year one

Hosting is cheap on purpose

Your first 12 months are included in the price above. After that, a low monthly fee keeps the manifest resolving and the viewer maintained. Your printed label points at our resolver and nobody can recall a label once it is in the wild. If hosting were expensive, tags would go dark the moment a budget got cut, which would wreck the one thing this product is for. The money is in captures, not rent.

Catalog
$99/mo
up to 10 tags, one invoice

For a product line. Identical features to Tag; what you are buying is a better per-tag rate and a single line on your books.

Up to 10 tags$99/mo
Up to 50 tags$299/mo
More than 50Let's talk
  • Everything in Tag, for every tag on the account
  • Add tags mid-term, pro-rated
  • Annual billing available
If we go away, your tag does not. We are a small studio, and printing our URL on a production run is a real dependency, and you should be uneasy about it. So it is written into the agreement: if McGrauth Hands-On AI ceases operations, you receive your manifest files and the resolver source code under a licence to self-host the tag you already printed. And if you simply let hosting lapse, we retain your data for 24 months and reactivate free within that window. You are never one missed invoice away from a dead label. Read the service terms →
Book a robot-ready check

Reserve your capture slot.

Tell us how to reach you and where to ship your product back. A deposit secures your slot; we'll send payment details and a return shipping quote after you submit.

How booking works

  • 1Submit this form. Just the essentials so we can reach you, price your product, and ship it back.
  • 2Pay the $500 deposit via the secure link on the next screen. Your slot is reserved once it clears, and it's credited against your total.
  • 3Get a fixed quote. We tell you which band your product is in and confirm the price and a turnaround date before any further money changes hands. If it isn't a fit, your deposit is refunded in full.
  • 4Ship us your product. Once the quote is agreed, we email you the studio shipping address. Turnaround begins the day it arrives.
  • 5Receive your manifest, 3D playback file, and printable anchor tag, plus your product back if you asked for it.

Rough is fine. We use this to tell you which band your product is in. See the bands

Sending CAD waives the $300 scanning fee, and your CAD is better than our scan.

A $500 deposit confirms your slot. After you submit, you'll get a secure link to pay it. The deposit is applied to your total, and refunded in full if we conclude your product isn't a fit.