I'm Leonardo Culjak — twenty-five years of building enterprise software, now spent making sure the thing you're about to pay for is the right thing. Every engagement starts small, paid, and honest about what comes next.
Forty minutes, paid, fixed fee. You describe the problem — or read me the quotes you've been given. I tell you what I'd do, what it's likely to cost, and what I'd refuse to do.
A couple of weeks of real work: what to build, in what order, on what, and what it should honestly cost. Fixed fee, quoted after the call.
I build it, or I lead the people who do — on Azure, with the security, monitoring and release automation already in place. Priced on the outcome, against milestones.
Eight web applications and their SQL databases off legacy hosting onto Azure, with failover, backup, monitoring and Zero Trust access added on the way. Then the delivery pipeline, so shipping stopped being an event.
A number quoted before your requirements are written down is a guess — and a guess is exactly what everyone else has already given you.
What I can tell you is the method, and it doesn't change.
A fixed fee for forty focused minutes. No free “discovery call” that turns out to be a sales call.
You get the number before work starts. If scope changes the price, you approve it first.
Milestones and named deliverables, not an hourly meter you have no way to audit.
The blueprint is yours. Take it to any developer on earth — including instead of me.
Sometimes the honest recommendation is to buy something off the shelf, or wait. You'll get it anyway.
Paid, fixed fee, and I'll say so plainly if you don't need me. Available for remote engagements with US and EU clients.