7-person Nepal-based team + real infra/tooling
Pricing details are hidden in this published version. The team structure, roles, and roadmap are unaffected — see Team and Scenarios. Contact the founder for the full cost breakdown.
Indicative planning figures, not a quote — verify current rates locally. Converted at roughly NPR 133 per USD; rescale if that's moved. Team is identical across both scenarios (7 people: 2 existing + 4 new FTE + 1 project-based designer), so team cost only differs by timeline length; AWS and app-store/tooling costs are broken out separately. Never shown in the job descriptions themselves — see JDs.
| Role | Status | NPR/month | USD/month |
|---|---|---|---|
| Backend Engineer | Existing FTE | 180,000 | ~1,350 |
| Flutter Engineer | Existing FTE | 180,000 | ~1,350 |
| Senior Backend Engineer #2 — tech lead | New FTE | 200,000 | ~1,500 |
| Technical Product Manager | New FTE | 190,000 | ~1,425 |
| QA/Automation Engineer | New FTE | 140,000 | ~1,050 |
| HR/Payroll/Admin (generalist rate) | New FTE | 90,000 | ~675 |
| Gross FTE payroll, 6 people | 980,000 | ~7,370 |
UI/UX Designer is not an FTE — one designer, engaged project-based at a flat NPR 4,00,000 total. Priced as a one-time project cost below, not monthly payroll. The tech lead and the Technical Product Manager are priced above the other new hires' 180,000 baseline — the tech lead for architecture/review/foundations ownership, the Technical Product Manager for absorbing vision/roadmap now that the founder is part-time (see Team). There's no separate DevOps/Platform Engineer or second mobile engineer in this roster either; see Team for why.
| Gross FTE payroll (6 people) | NPR 980,000 |
| Employer statutory + benefits (~18%) | NPR 176,400 |
| Office — coworking, 8 seats @ NPR 12,000 | NPR 96,000 |
| Contingency (10%) | NPR 125,240 |
| Total team monthly burn | ≈ NPR 1,377,640 (~$10,360) |
| Scenario | Why | USD/month |
|---|---|---|
| Lean Pilot | Staging + prod, small RDS instance, S3/CDN, backups, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch — 1 state, 3rd-party e-sig keeps this light | ~400 |
| Full Pilot | Same footprint plus the in-house e-signature engine's storage/audit-trail needs and 2–3 states' worth of jurisdiction data | ~500 |
AWS bills in USD regardless of team location, so this is quoted in USD directly rather than converted. Pre-launch, low-traffic estimate — expect it to rise modestly once real pilot traffic is live. See Tech Stack for the reference architecture this estimate assumes.
| Item | Cadence | USD |
|---|---|---|
| AI coding tool subscriptions (4 technical seats: 2 backend, 2 mobile) | Monthly | ~400/mo |
| PM/comms tools (Linear or Jira, Slack) | Monthly | ~70/mo |
| Error tracking/monitoring | Monthly | ~20/mo |
| Apple Developer Program | Annual | 99/yr |
| Google Play Developer registration | One-time | 25 once |
| Domain + SSL (SSL via ACM is free; domain only) | Annual | ~20/yr |
Recurring monthly total: ~$490/month (~NPR 65,170). Annual/one-time items (~$144 total) are folded into the one-time setup total below rather than prorated.
| Hardware, standard (laptop NPR 200,000 + monitor + dongle/accessories) × 4 new hires (tech lead, Technical PdM, QA, HR/Admin) | NPR 920,000 |
| Test device lab (1 iPhone + 2 Android phones, for the mobile engineer's testing across all 5 portals) | NPR 180,000 |
| UI/UX Designer project fee | NPR 400,000 |
| Office inverter/UPS (load-shedding backup) | NPR 100,000 |
| App Store + Play Store + domain (first-year fees) | NPR 19,150 (~$144) |
| Total one-time setup | ≈ NPR 1,619,150 (~$12,175) |
Assumes the 2 existing developers already have suitable machines, including the Flutter engineer's Mac for iOS builds. Office inverter/UPS assumes a small office (7–8 people).
| Team monthly burn | NPR 1,377,640 |
| AWS (Full Pilot rate, ~$500/mo) | NPR 66,500 |
| Other tooling (~$490/mo) | NPR 65,170 |
| Total monthly × 6 months | ≈ NPR 9,055,860 (~$68,090) |
| One-time setup | NPR 1,619,150 (~$12,175) |
| Total Phase 1 build-team budget | ≈ NPR 10,675,010 (~$80,265) |
| Team monthly burn | NPR 1,377,640 |
| AWS (Lean Pilot rate, ~$400/mo) | NPR 53,200 |
| Other tooling (~$490/mo) | NPR 65,170 |
| Total monthly × 5 months | ≈ NPR 7,480,050 (~$56,240) |
| One-time setup | NPR 1,619,150 (~$12,175) |
| Total Phase 1 build-team budget | ≈ NPR 9,099,200 (~$68,415) |