Special Projects — Custom AI Builds from $3,500 | AiOn Systems
What we build

Three shapes of custom work.

All of it runs on the free AiOn platform — you're paying for the build, never for the thing underneath.

Agents & automations

Custom Warden agents trained to your workflows — the ones doing the work off-the-shelf tools can't touch. Inbound triage, follow-up sequences, research pipelines, report generation: scoped, built, and shipped working.

Scope an agent

Integrations

Gluing the free platform into the tools you already run — CRM, accounting, booking, legacy databases, that one thing your industry swears by. If it has an API (or even a web form), we can wire it in.

Wire up your stack

Full products

We've shipped products of our own — Dockbox, Warden, Graice. If you need a real product built — an internal tool your whole company lives in, or something you'll sell — that's the same muscle, pointed at your idea.

Talk about your product

The receipts

Three things we built, shipping right now.

Don't take a portfolio's word for it — every one of these is public. Read the code, browse the product, use the thing.

Warden

The problem: AI tools were chat windows — powerful, but they couldn't actually do anything in the real world.

The build: an open-source multi-agent platform that drives a real browser, your email, your calendar, and your messaging channels — all locally, on open-weight models.

The proof: it's public on GitHub. Read the source before you hire anyone.

Warden on GitHub

Dockbox

The problem: teams juggle chat in one app, projects in another, files in a third — and none of it talks to the others.

The build: one workspace, six apps — chat, projects, files, automations, calendar, and vault — with an AI crew built in: specialist agents coordinated by one orchestrator.

The proof: it's live — browse the actual product yourself.

Visit Dockbox

Graice

The problem: seniors who need reminders, scheduling, and family contact most are the least able to use a computer.

The build: a voice-first assistant — reminders, scheduling, family communication, and life-story capture, all by voice, no screen. Runs fully offline on a small device.

The proof: it's a real product, live today.

See Graice

The project run

Four steps. No mystery pricing.

01

Fit call

Thirty minutes. You tell us what should exist and what it should do; we tell you whether we're the right builders — and roughly what shape the work is.

02

Fixed quote

Scope written down, price written down. Project-priced from $3,500 CAD — no hourly meter, no surprise invoices. The number you sign is the number you pay.

03

Build sprint

Working software in weeks, not months of slideware. You see it running early and often — and steer while it's cheap to steer.

04

Handoff

Documentation, training, and the keys. It runs on the free AiOn platform, so nothing is held hostage: you own the result, the stack underneath, and the decision of what happens next.

The price

Project-priced. Fixed. Yours.

Scope drives the number — an automation costs less than an integration, which costs less than a product. Every quote is fixed before we start.

Custom builds · CAD
from $3,500
Fixed quote per project · the platform underneath is $0
  • Scoping workshop — we map the problem before we quote it.
  • Fixed quote — the number you sign is the number you pay.
  • Build sprint — working software early and often.
  • Docs & training — your team can run it without us.
  • Post-launch window — support included while it settles in.

What moves the number

An automation scoped to one workflow sits at the bottom of the range. Multi-tool integrations with edge cases sit higher. A full product — the Dockbox/Graice kind of build — is a real budget conversation.

What never moves it: hours. We quote the outcome, not the meter.

Not sure which bucket you're in? That's exactly what the fit call is for — and it's free.

Book a fit call

Why build with us

Built on a platform you already own.

Most custom-dev shops build on their own proprietary stack so you can never leave. We build on ours too — except ours is yours, free, forever.

You own the result

Open platform, open source, no license hostage. When the project ends, the software keeps running — whether or not you ever pay us another dollar. We'd rather you stay because it works, not because you're locked in.

You can extend it yourself

The stack is documented and teachable — it's the same stack we teach in AiOn Foundry. Want your team to take over after handoff? We can train them. Want us to keep running it? That's ongoing management, $3,500/month. Your call, not a contract clause.

Questions

Before you book the call.

Every project is quoted fixed after a fit call. Most start at $3,500 CAD and go up with scope — an integration is less than a product. Scope drives the price, not hours: the number you sign is the number you pay.
Small automations ship in days to a couple of weeks. Bigger integrations take a few weeks. Full products take longer — Dockbox, Warden, and Graice each took months. You get an honest range in the quote, and working software early and often inside it.
You do. The platform underneath is already yours — free and open — and what we build on top of it is yours too. No license hostage, nothing to cancel.
Yes. Ongoing management is $3,500/month — monitoring, maintenance, updates, and a human on call. Or we can train your team to run it themselves through Consulting.
That's a special project too — and often the best first one. Book the fit call; if it's genuinely small, the quote will be too.
Special Projects · from $3,500 CAD

Have something in mind? Tell us what it should do.

Describe the thing that doesn't exist yet — the agent, the integration, the product. We'll tell you straight what it would take, what it would cost, and whether it's worth building at all.