# OpenOnion > OpenOnion puts AI to work on the operational problems that matter most. Every engagement starts with an AI Opportunity Audit from AUD $4,000. Customers can then continue with a Build & Run engineering subscription at AUD $6,000 per month. Trading name of ConnectOnion Pty Ltd (ABN 66 687 768 314), Sydney, Australia. ## What we do Every operations team has a list of manual work that engineering never gets to. It loses every sprint planning to something a customer is waiting for — correctly — and so it never moves. We put an engineer inside the ops team and work that list. Typical builds: recruitment agents (sourcing from LinkedIn, GitHub and papers, outbound, interview scheduling), sales agents (lead collection, cold outreach, ongoing engagement), integration agents that wire SaaS tools to each other so a change in one lands in the rest, contract and ledger agents with critical-date reminders, and agents that keep SOPs and internal wikis current as the underlying processes change. We are not a platform and we do not sell software. The software underneath is open source and free to anyone. What is paid for is the engineer. ## Who it is for - Fast-growing startups, where every engineer is on the product and ops has been holding things together with spreadsheets. - Established companies without much engineering — finance, legal, logistics, manufacturing — where there was never an internal team to ask. ## How an engagement runs 1. **AI Opportunity Audit.** Every new engagement starts with a one-off audit. We interview multiple stakeholders across one department, map workflows and bottlenecks, analyse time and operating cost, assess feasibility and access requirements, and rank opportunities by value, effort and risk. It usually takes one to two weeks. 2. **Audit deliverables.** The customer receives the workflow map, opportunity ranking, recommended first system, implementation roadmap and business case. The customer owns the audit and can implement it internally or take it to another developer. 3. **Build & Run Subscription.** Customers who continue with us keep a prioritised backlog. We build, deploy and maintain one active priority at a time, and the order can change as the business changes. ## Pricing - **AI Opportunity Audit: from AUD $4,000, one-off.** The starting price covers one department and multiple stakeholder interviews. Larger scopes are quoted and fixed before work begins. - **Build & Run Subscription: AUD $6,000 per month.** Available after the audit, month to month, with one active priority at a time and maintenance included. There is no hourly billing, and the subscription can be paused or cancelled in any month. - The customer owns the audit roadmap and everything subsequently built, outright, from day one. ## What we will and will not promise We put numbers on hours and error rates, because both can be counted before we arrive and counted again after. We do not put numbers on anything where we would be claiming credit for the customer's own work. Accounts payable, onboarding and lead routing qualify. "Make us an AI company" does not. We never remove the manual path. It is how a customer checks our numbers and how they keep operating when something breaks. ## Pages - [Home](https://openonion.ai/) — what we do, the audit, subscription pricing and terms - [Manifesto](https://openonion.ai/manifesto) — philosophy: protocols over platforms - [Careers](https://openonion.ai/careers) — open positions ## Related The open-source software these are built on is ConnectOnion, Apache-2.0 licensed. That is a separate audience and a separate site: [docs.connectonion.com](https://docs.connectonion.com), [github.com/openonion](https://github.com/openonion). Nothing on this page is a claim about the SDK. ## Common questions Q: How is this different from buying Zapier or n8n? A: It is not a different tool — we use those where they fit. The difference is who runs them. A platform hands an ops lead a canvas and a login, and maintenance becomes their second job. What is bought here is the person, not the canvas. A team with the capacity to build and maintain it themselves should buy the platform instead. Q: What if a customer's system has no API? A: There is no list of supported systems. It works the screen the way a person would, so anything a team member can do with a mouse and a login is in scope. Where a proper API exists we use it, because it is faster and breaks less. Q: How does this pass a security review? A: Narrowest access that does the job, in the customer's own tenancy, under accounts they create and can revoke without asking us. What those accounts can see and do is written down before they are granted. Q: Who owns the output? A: The customer, from day one. The underlying software is Apache-2.0 licensed open source, so leaving needs no permission and there is nothing to buy back. ## Contact - Email: hi@openonion.ai - Hiring: openonionai@gmail.com - Book a walkthrough: https://cal.com/openonion/aaron - Discord: https://discord.gg/4xfD9k8AUF - X: https://x.com/openonion - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/openonion/