Punfyre Forge
We build complex digital platforms fast, without cutting corners. Forge reuses our battle-tested components so your project starts from a solid foundation rather than a blank page. Every piece ships with core features, full test coverage, and clean architecture built in, giving you enterprise-grade quality at a transparent fixed rate, delivered by a small team that stays accountable from first estimate to final deployment.
Applications
The platform is structured into applications, each containing packs you can enable. Packs bundle related features and capabilities together. Add-ons extend individual packs with optional extras.
Website Platform
Public-facing website with pages, blog, assets, and SEO.
The foundation: responsive pages, hosting, basic analytics, and a contact form.
Get a professional, fast website up and running immediately.
Included
Support Center
Publish structured documentation, guides, and reference material.
The foundation for a documentation site with publishing and search.
Users and teams find answers themselves, reducing support load.
Included
Slide Decks
Dynamic, customer-specific slide decks that can be customized and tracked.
Create branded slide decks with customer personalization.
Sales teams send personalized decks in minutes, not hours.
Included
Client Portal
Extensive portal to support all business cases for your clients.
Client dashboard with project overview and secure messaging.
Clients see everything in one place instead of scattered emails.
Dependencies
- Auth Engine (Server Engine) — active
- API Engine (Server Engine) — will be auto-added
Included
Server Engine
Underlying architecture powering authentication, APIs, and data.
Backend authentication service powering login across all apps.
Secure, centralized identity management for all your applications.
Included
Optional add-ons
Full OAuth2 server for third-party integrations.
SAML/OIDC single sign-on for corporate clients.
Mobile App
Native or cross-platform mobile app. Mostly billed on an hourly basis.
Cross-platform mobile app with your branding.
Reach users on iOS and Android from one codebase.
Dependencies
- API Engine (Server Engine) — will be auto-added
Included
Optional add-ons
Face ID and fingerprint login.
Links open specific screens in the app.
Dev Toolkit
Use our component library and tooling to build custom features on your own.
Pre-built, tested UI components for rapid development.
Build custom interfaces 5x faster with production-ready components.
Included
Optional add-ons
Matching Figma components for designers.
Hosting & extras
Hosting costs are determined by several factors including your active applications, their chosen add-ons, traffic volume, and data complexity. Items marked "Included" or "Always on" come at no extra cost. Everything else shows its monthly price clearly.
Environments & scaling
Hosting costs depend on your active applications and their add-ons. More components, integrations, or traffic-intensive features increase both server and hosting costs.
Always-on development environment for building and testing. Cold-start, no production traffic.
AI credits
Monthly AI allowances that reset each billing cycle. Add extra packs as needed.
Generate images from text prompts. 10 included per month, then paused until reset.
Total: 0 images / month(10 included free)
€ 2/month per extra pack of 50 images
Storage
File storage and database capacity for your platform.
File and asset storage for uploads, media, and documents. 10 GB included.
Total: 0 GB / month(10 included free)
€ 0/month per extra pack of 10 GB
Users & access
Manage who has access to your platform and at what level.
Internal team members with full platform access including content editing, settings, and administration.
Total: 0 users / month(3 included free)
€ 2/month per extra user
Executive summary
Everything priced at actual engineering cost plus a fixed 15% margin.
Fixed build fee
€ 15.656 fixed
~26 days · ~6–9 weeks · 15% buffer included
Monthly at full capacity
€ 378/month
Ramps up as packs go live
Yearly average cost
€ 4.536/year
Year 1 incl. build: € 20.192
Yearly cost is comparable across all terms. Adjust the commitment below to see monthly and total differences.
Commitment term
When you commit to a longer period, we can proactively negotiate better rates with our infrastructure providers and plan resource allocation more efficiently. This lowers our actual cost basis, and since our 15% margin stays constant, the savings pass directly to you. All plans are billed monthly with no upfront payments required.
Delivery roadmap
Each application starts as soon as its dependencies are ready. Server infrastructure comes first, then dependent applications follow in parallel.
Underlying architecture powering authentication, APIs, and data.
Public-facing website with pages, blog, assets, and SEO.
Cost breakdown
A one-time build investment to deliver and launch your platform, followed by a predictable monthly operating cost.
Monthly hosting
1 year commitment, billed monthly. Ramps up as packs go live.
Fixed-price engagement
~206h at € 76/h · ~6–9 weeks (~3 months) delivery.
- ~206h of hands-on engineering at € 76/h, 15% buffer included
- Delivered over ~6–9 weeks in staged releases
- Built to your brand, your design language, and your style guide
- Integrated with your existing workflows, tools, and data sources
- Content migration, structured data handover, and environment setup
- Thorough QA, accessibility checks, and production go-live support
- Live documentation from day one, maintained as the platform grows
- Structured onboarding so your team can operate the platform confidently
Your actual total over the 12-month period comes to € 19.800 · delivery completes month 3
Questions worth asking before you sign off
Answers to the things that typically come up late in a buying conversation. These update based on your current selection and chosen commitment term.
Cost breakdown
Every pack is scored across three engineering dimensions (Scope, Depth, and Footprint), each rated on a five-point scale from Standard to Complex. The combination of these scores determines the hours estimated for that pack, which drives both the integration fee and the ongoing monthly hosting cost.
Estimation dimensions
These appear as colored dots next to each pack. They rate each pack across three dimensions on a five-point scale.
Scope
How much functionality is included: screens, logic, data, and features. A wider scope means more code to build, review, and maintain.
Depth
Engineering rigor underneath the surface: tests, error handling, security, and compliance. Higher depth reflects more thorough, resilient engineering.
Footprint
How much of the platform this pack touches: shared data, connected services, and cross-application dependencies that increase coordination cost.
Complexity bands
Five complexity bands that anchor how packs are priced. The dimension bars cycle through valid combinations within each band, illustrating that minor differences in scope, depth, or footprint can exist without shifting the overall cost category.
Standard
Small focused pack with a handful of screens, straightforward logic, and minimal integrations.
€8–€16/mo
Moderate
Mid-size feature with some backend work and a couple of external connections.
€18–€32/mo
Extended
Multi-screen module with solid test coverage and several shared data models.
€35–€58/mo
Advanced
Complex feature set touching many platform parts, with deep security requirements.
€62–€95/mo
Complex
Full-featured pack with advanced automation, real-time systems, and compliance requirements.
€100–€180/mo
System-level indicators
These aggregate signals reflect the overall impact of the selected configuration across all applications and packs. Each one rolls up lower-level metrics to give a sense of where complexity, effort, and cost are concentrated.
Raw engineering metrics
The underlying data points that feed into the indicators above. These are never shown directly in the estimator but are used internally to calculate each indicator score.
How we work
Six engineering principles that compound over time. The more projects we complete, the more efficient the next one becomes.
Reusable by default
Write once, deploy everywhere
Every component, hook, and utility is a reusable module from day one. Bug fixes propagate everywhere, new features build on proven foundations that have been validated in production.
Modular architecture
Swap, scale, or extend any part
Systems are composable packs with clear boundaries. Each pack owns its data, logic, and UI. Add, remove, or upgrade any part without touching the rest. Maintenance stays linear as the system grows.
Stability over novelty
Proven tools, predictable results
Boring, well-understood technology over the latest trend. Every dependency is evaluated for long-term maintenance cost and community health. Your platform runs on tested foundations.
Performance as a feature
Fast by architecture, not afterthought
Static generation, edge caching, code splitting, lazy loading, and optimised queries are part of the default setup. Sub-second page loads and green Core Web Vitals out of the box.
Automated quality gates
Catch problems before production
Every commit runs through automated tests, type checking, linting, and build verification. Regressions are caught in minutes, not discovered by users. We deploy confidently and frequently.
Pragmatic to the core
Maximum output, minimum complexity
If something can be generated, we generate it. If a pattern repeats, we abstract it. If a step can be automated, we automate it. Less code means fewer bugs and lower costs; savings passed to you.
Our pricing
We price everything at actual engineering cost plus a constant 15% margin, and that never changes. Longer commitments let us negotiate cheaper infrastructure contracts, which lowers our cost basis and passes real savings to you. This page explains our rates, how they compare to the market, and how commitment discounts work.
Where we sit in the market
Hourly rate comparison for fullstack development. Our costs land at the bottom of the scale while delivering quality from the top. Here is why that is not a contradiction.
Offshore teams or freelancers. Low hourly rates but often higher total cost due to rework, communication overhead, and quality gaps.
Small teams with lower overhead. Good for simple projects, but limited scalability and often lack structured processes or testing.
Enterprise-grade reusable systems, priced at actual engineering cost + 15% margin. Years of compounding investment keep costs low while quality stays at the top.
Established agencies with proven processes. Solid quality but higher overhead from larger teams, office costs, and account management layers.
Large consultancies with extensive processes, compliance certifications, and large teams. Premium pricing for brand assurance.
Why this works
Low cost is a result of high quality, not a trade-off against it.
Compounding efficiency
Every project adds to our shared library of battle-tested components and utilities. Each one is faster and more reliable than the last.
Constant 15% margin
Our margin is always 15%. It never goes higher, even on complex work. When you commit to a longer term, we negotiate cheaper hosting contracts, driving the cost basis down. The discount you see is real infrastructure savings, not a margin cut.
Pragmatic laziness
If something can be generated, we generate it. If a pattern repeats, we abstract it. Less code means fewer bugs and lower costs; savings passed to you.
How we keep costs low
Six engineering principles that compound over time.
Reusable by default
Write once, deploy everywhere
Modular architecture
Swap, scale, or extend any part
Stability over novelty
Proven tools, predictable results
Performance as a feature
Fast by architecture, not afterthought
Automated quality gates
Catch problems before production
Pragmatic to the core
Maximum output, minimum complexity
Commitment discounts
Our margin is always 15% and never changes. When you commit to a longer period we can negotiate better infrastructure contracts, which lowers our actual cost basis. Since the margin stays constant, the savings pass directly to you. All plans are billed monthly with no upfront payment required.
1 year
Default12-month commitment, billed monthly.
2 years
24-month commitment, billed monthly.
3 years
36-month commitment, billed monthly.
Fair terms
The 15% buffer
Our quotes include a fixed 15% buffer on estimated hours. Each bar shows three segments: the fixed fee you pay us (left), the animated uncertainty window (middle, oscillating between the range for that approach), and your team's estimated internal costs (right). The more you take on yourself, the lower our invoice, but your internal overhead rises significantly.
We do the heavy lifting, your team learns along the way with minimal overhead.
Your team does most work, we review and guide. Coordination overhead increases significantly.
Your team handles it all, we’re available for questions. Maximum learning curve and coordination costs.
Even the best team needs time to learn a new system. We can only predict what is on our end. The rest depends on your environment, existing integrations, and how quickly your team gets up to speed. The buffer exists so discoveries along the way are covered without extra charges.
3 packs hosting
~206h of hands-on engineering