A business website can answer questions by pointing visitors to a page. An AI agent or chatbot answers in natural language, handling queries that do not map neatly to a navigation menu. The practical question is which kind of agent you need and what one costs to build. Mycrea Technologies, the Nairobi studio that also designs and maintains this site, lists AI agents and solutions among its nine services, with published starting prices that give you a sense of scale.
According to its website, Mycrea offers conversational AI and custom machine learning from a starting point of eighty thousand shillings. The site describes this as a starting point rather than a quote; every project is scoped individually after a conversation. You might commission a chatbot that triages customer questions and escalates complex ones to a person, or an agent trained on product manuals and policy documents to answer support queries specific to your business. Custom machine learning could mean a recommendation engine, fraud detection or inventory forecasting, depending on what problem you are solving.
The company also lists an AI agent or chatbot as a forty-thousand-shilling add-on within its ready-made website packages, and chatbot integration is included in the two-hundred-thousand-shilling Premium package alongside features such as bespoke design, a full-stack web application and a dedicated project manager. Where the standalone AI service starts at eighty thousand and the add-on at forty thousand, the difference usually lies in scope: a simpler bot embedded in an existing site versus a standalone agent with deeper integration, training on proprietary data, or connections to your CRM or inventory system. Ask for clarity on what each price covers before you commit.
Mycrea says it works tool-agnostic, choosing the right stack to solve the problem rather than promoting a favourite framework. It lists principles including craft over speed, African context first, and honest work, which the site describes as telling a client what a project needs rather than what they want to hear. The studio was founded in Nairobi in 2021 and works with clients across East Africa and beyond, quoting in shillings for Kenyan clients and US dollars for those outside. Communication is mostly asynchronous with syncs at milestones, and the site lists M-Pesa Paybill, bank transfer, cheque and international wire among accepted payment methods.
Every engagement begins with a conversation, and the site says a detailed quote with no hidden costs is given before work starts. Projects typically require a fifty per cent deposit with the balance due on delivery; milestone-based payments can be arranged for larger builds. Post-launch support is included in every project, and monthly retainers from twenty thousand shillings cover ongoing maintenance, SEO or content updates. Contact details are listed as support@mycrea.dev, a mobile number and WhatsApp, and a start-a-project form on the site.
When you brief a developer, describe the task the agent will perform, the data it will draw on, and where it will live: embedded in your website, in a messaging app, or as a standalone tool your team uses internally. Because Mycrea also runs this website, we note that you should compare quotes from more than one studio. Starting prices are useful for budgeting, but the final cost depends on complexity, the volume of interactions you expect, and whether the agent needs to connect to other systems you already use.
Start a project, or see the published prices and past work, at mycrea.dev. Read the pricing, browse the case studies, or start a project. Compare quotes from more than one studio before you decide.
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