Free Fit Call
Free
15-30 minutes to confirm alignment, qualification, and whether Trustline is the right fit for the environment.
Pricing
The Price of Absolute Ownership.
Trustline does not sell a commodity box with an installer script. The work covers architecture, sourcing, build quality, migration, compatibility planning, local AI operator integration, testing, documentation, and structured support.
Founding client model
Current deployment ranges reflect premium engagements for households and small businesses that want private infrastructure, local AI included, and real accountability after deployment.
Discovery
Start with fit and assessment.
Remote Sovereign Assessment
$300-$500
Used to pin down the services that need to be migrated, identify compatibility constraints, review phone and endpoint realities, and create a clear migration plan. Credited toward deployment.
On-Site Sovereign Assessment
$750-$1,250
Optional and only used in specific cases identified during the fit call, typically when the environment needs in-person review. Credited toward deployment.
Founding client deployments
Service labor, hardware, and six months of support.
Founding Member Rate
$5,000 + Hardware Costs
Limited to the first 3-5 clients. Includes 6 months of mandatory support to ensure total system stability.
Managed care
The Guardian Retainer.
Essential Operator Care
$600-$900/month
Core maintenance, health checks, backup review, and support coverage for stable day-to-day operation, including recurring confidence checks where appropriate.
Priority Operator Care
$1.2k-$1.8k/month
Faster response, broader tuning, and more frequent operational attention for clients who want tighter stewardship, monthly owner reporting, and deeper workflow refinement.
Concierge / Technical Operator Care
$2.5k-$4k/month
High-touch care for complex, high-dependency, or business-critical private environments that need a deeper support posture, more active privacy review, and ongoing operator tuning.
Accountability
Trustline does not install and disappear.
The first six months of support are part of the deployment experience because that is when updates, backup verification, workflow tuning, and operator upkeep turn a successful install into a system that actually works long-term.
Support runway
The deployment includes time to stabilize the system after launch instead of treating handoff day as the end of responsibility.
Ongoing upkeep
Updates, backup review, and operator tuning are part of what keeps the private stack calm and dependable.
Real accountability
Trustline remains responsible for the environment during the period when most systems either settle properly or start to drift.
Hardware
Hardware sourcing and markup structure.
Commodity hardware
Actual cost + 10%-15%
Custom AI hardware
Actual cost + 15%-25%
Small accessories
Actual cost + 20%-30% or bundled
What determines the final quote
Scope, migration, and operator depth.
Environment complexity
Network conditions, storage needs, cameras, smart-home scope, phone and endpoint count, and the number of services being consolidated all affect deployment effort.
Migration requirements
The final quote depends heavily on how much data, media, user access, photos, mobile sync behavior, and workflow history must be moved cleanly into the new stack.
Architecture scope
VPN-mediated remote access, DNS and ad-blocking design, backup posture, restore planning, and compatibility constraints materially change the final system design.
Operator capability
Local AI hardware targets, workflow depth, approval boundaries, and premium worker-layer requirements materially change the final system design.
Why it costs this much
This is not a device sale or simple software install.
You are not buying a box. You are buying your freedom from the cloud. We design it, we build it, you own it forever.
Design
Architecture and service selection matched to the client’s environment, privacy goals, migration realities, and network posture.
Integration
Burn-in, validation, backups, remote access, phone sync, DNS privacy controls, and operator workflows configured correctly before handoff.
Accountability
Documentation, support, stewardship, and system ownership after deployment instead of vendor finger-pointing or dashboard sprawl.
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