Priced to the work, not to your headcount

A flat $2,500, billed at kickoff, regardless of headcount. It runs about two weeks and delivers a current-state process map across HR, payroll, and field operations, a findings report naming every breakpoint and duplicated effort, a prioritized roadmap ranking each fix by impact and effort, a Microsoft 365 utilization review, and a live leadership readout. The roadmap is yours to keep whether or not you build with Crude HR.

A single workflow on standard tooling runs $6,000 to $9,000, and a more complex build (mobile app, multi-level approval routing, or an ERP or payroll integration) runs $10,000 to $18,000. A bundled suite of three to six processes runs $28,000 to $55,000, and a full custom application with a relational system of record runs $25,000 to $75,000 and up. Builds are fixed-price, not per-seat. The specific number is scoped from what the audit finds, not guessed on a phone call.

No. The audit is priced as its own deliverable and stands on its own: you get the process map, findings, and prioritized roadmap whether or not you hire Crude HR to implement any of it. At $2,500 it is deliberately affordable enough that it does not need to be discounted into a build, and pricing it separately keeps the recommendations honest.

Fractional support is a monthly retainer sized to scope. Managed automation (monitoring, minor changes, feature updates) runs $2,000 to $6,000 per month. Embedded fractional HR operations runs $6,000 to $9,000, and fractional HR Director level leadership runs $9,000 to $12,000. All retainers carry a 3 to 6 month minimum with a 30-day termination clause afterward, hour rollover, quarterly re-scope, and monthly hours-used reporting.

No. Custom builds are owned by you with no per-seat license creep. That is a deliberate cost advantage over per-user SaaS, which keeps charging more as your crews grow. Where a build does require incremental platform licensing, the audit flags it before you commit rather than after.

Field-service businesses have very different processes, systems, and levels of mess. A single number would either overcharge simple jobs or underscope complex ones. The published ranges tell you the neighborhood; the free Workflow Review confirms fit, and the $2,500 Process Audit produces the scoped, fixed number you actually sign.

The licenses are yours already, and that is the point. Most field-heavy companies are already paying for automation, forms, and workflow tools bundled into software they own, and use almost none of it. What you are buying is the design, compliance, and build expertise that turns owned licenses into a working, audit-ready system: records retention that survives an FLSA, OSHA, or DOT look, e-signature capture that holds up, and approval records an auditor will accept. The audit tells you which fixes you can build on licenses you already hold before you spend a dollar on new software.

Owners, CFOs, COOs, and HR or operations leaders at the service companies that support oil and gas production, not the exploration and production operators themselves. Think wireline, workover and well service, rental tools, hot shot and trucking, roustabout and construction crews, chemical and fluids, inspection, and safety services, plus industrial contractors, transportation, and manufacturing across Texas and the Gulf Coast, where the back office still runs on paper, spreadsheets, and chased-down signatures.