For a moving company, the first cost driver is how much of the work gets automated. Answering quote requests fast, at any hour, with accurate pricing and availability, is a smaller build than a system that also handles crew scheduling, builds inventory lists from a walkthrough or photos, and follows up with customers for reviews after a job. Each of those is its own workflow with its own tools to connect to: a booking calendar, a CRM, a texting or email inbox. Stacking several together costs more than automating one, because each one needs to be mapped, built, and tested against how your business actually runs.
The second driver is whether the system is built and handed off, or built and operated. A build-only engagement gives you the system and you run it: someone on your team watches it, fixes it when a connected tool changes, and steps in for the calls it can't make on its own. Build-and-operate means the system keeps running under someone else's watch: catching failures, retrying, and escalating to a person only when a decision genuinely needs one, like a damaged-item claim or a scheduling conflict that needs a judgment call. Ongoing operation costs more than a one-time build because it is continuous work, not a handoff, and it is priced that way.
Precipitate does not publish a price list. Each engagement is quoted on the value the system creates for that business, not on hours spent building it. A mover with a couple of trucks and steady quote volume needs a lighter build than one running several crews with constant lead flow, and the two shouldn't cost the same. The way to judge if it's worth it: look honestly at how much of your day goes to answering the same quote questions, chasing a crew schedule by phone, retyping inventory notes, or remembering to ask for reviews, and whether a slow reply has actually cost you a booked job. If that adds up to real hours or lost jobs most weeks, a short conversation about your specific workflow is the way to find out what it would take, not a number on a page.