See How Thavage Benchmarks Modern Agencies

Thavage benchmarks what an AI-native product partner would likely charge to scope, design, build, launch, and stabilize the project you described. It is not a signed quote. It is a defensible planning range.

That benchmark now rides inside both public estimate flows. If you already built something, you can compare your actual AI-assisted spend against both traditional and modern-agency delivery. If you are planning a build, you can compare DIY, modern-agency, and traditional paths in one pass.

• Founders often compare DIY economics directly against traditional agency quotes, which hides the real middle ground
• A modern AI-native agency should be leaner than a traditional delivery model without pretending the work is DIY-cheap
• The result gives you a benchmark before you enter a discovery process or react to a six-figure quote

• Compressed launch timelines and multiple stakeholder groups
• Higher polish expectations, premium design, or more revision cycles
• Compliance, migrations, security review, or integration ambiguity

The benchmark is deterministic. It maps scoped work into a compact senior team, applies role-specific hourly rates, adds delivery overhead, and enforces minimum quote floors so the result does not pretend a real partner-build is free.

• Growth marketing, media spend, and demand generation are outside the partner-build benchmark
• Long-term retained support is excluded unless the support expectation is explicitly widened
• Procurement-heavy discovery, enterprise change management, and large security-review programs are not baked into the midpoint by default

• Use DIY year one to understand the cheapest plausible AI-assisted path
• Use the built-in modern-agency benchmark to pressure-test what a capable outside team might quote
• Use the traditional benchmark as the ceiling that shows what pre-AI delivery drag looks like