Every department your company needs. On demand.
Autonomous AI execution across your entire business — from Growth and Creative to Tech, Finance, and Operations — paid only when you accept the work.
No retainer. No subscription. Nothing charged before you see the work.
Executive summary
Three of four tracked rivals moved to usage-based pricing this quarter. The remaining seat-based incumbent is losing mid-market deals on procurement friction, not features.
The platform
A full AI workforce, not a chatbot
Every project gets the whole operating system: specialist teams, your own documents, quality checks, and delivery straight into the tools you already use.
37 specialist departments
Growth, finance, engineering, strategy, creative and operations. Each with its own specialists, charter and fixed price.
Multi-department pipelines
Chain whole campaigns, like a GTM launch or a Series A pack. Each approved result feeds straight into the next department.
Weekly & monthly retainers
Competitor watches and forecast updates rerun on schedule, and each report opens with what changed since the last one.
Built on your documents
Attach decks, P&Ls and specs. Your figures are treated as ground truth and cited back to your file.
Living document canvas
Edit any section yourself, or tell the AI to rewrite just that section: shorter, plainer, or stress-tested.
Straight into your tools
Excel workbooks, outreach CSVs and CMS drafts. Push live to GitHub issues or any webhook: HubSpot, Salesforce, Zapier.
37 departments you can commission
Each department is built and tuned by Ordinal around one kind of work, with a written charter, a reference standard for its output, and a price that does not move once the brief is agreed. Six of the 37 are below — from $199 to $399.
Competitive Intelligence & Teardowns
Pricing models, feature parity, positioning gaps and the moats a rival actually has.
Deliverable: Competitor teardown dossier: positioning, pricing, features, GTM motion, and exploitable gaps
$299~20 minutesB2B Account & Prospect Intelligence
Qualified account lists, decision-maker mapping and the outreach angle for each one.
Deliverable: Account dossiers with decision-makers, trigger events, and a tailored opening angle per account
$249~15 minutesMarket Sizing & Industry Briefings
Demand shifts, regulation, funding activity and the players worth watching in your category.
Deliverable: Market briefing with sourced TAM/SAM/SOM, growth drivers, headwinds, and competitive landscape
$349~30 minutesTechnical SEO & Search Competitor Audits
Crawlability, speed, indexing waste and the fixes ranked by likely impact.
Deliverable: Prioritised technical SEO audit with keyword gaps, content decay, and the fixes that move rankings
$199~20 minutesShort-Form Video Scripts & Viral Hooks
Five ready-to-shoot TikTok, Reels and Shorts scripts — hooks, beats, shots and captions.
Deliverable: Five ready-to-shoot short videos: second-by-second scripts, hooks, shot list, on-screen text and captions
$249~15 minutesSoftware Architecture & Database Design
Your product idea turned into a buildable spec: database, API contract and risks.
Deliverable: Technical specification: requirements, data model with SQL schema, API contract, auth, scaling and risk plan
$399~25 minutes
See all 37 departments and prices →
Need something outside these? Describe it when you sign up and Ordinal will quote a fixed price before any work begins.
How commissioning a project works
Four steps, from brief to sign-off. No bidding, no hourly billing, and nothing charged before you have seen the work.
1 · Choose a department and brief it
Pick the department built for the outcome you need, describe the objective, and attach supporting material. Your files stay confidential and are used only for your project.
2 · Fund escrow
The price is fixed before work starts. Your payment is held in escrow by Stripe, not paid to Ordinal.
3 · Specialists deliver under quality review
Specialised AI workers execute each step against the department charter and its accumulated expertise, and a dedicated quality manager reviews every draft before delivery.
4 · Review, then sign off
Inspect a watermarked proof of work, unlock the full deliverable, and request revisions during the 72-hour warranty before final sign-off releases payment.
Proof Before Pay
Quality you can check before you pay
Every project runs through the same safeguards, so what you receive is accurate, sourced and ready to use.
Maths checked by code, not by AI
Every financial table is recalculated automatically before review, so totals, cash and runway always add up.
No invented facts
Claims must link to a source that was actually retrieved. Anything else is clearly labelled as unverified or an estimate.
Every draft reviewed
A dedicated quality manager scores each step. Weak work is sent back and fixed before it ever reaches you.
Pay only when you accept
Your payment sits in escrow while you inspect the finished work. It is released only once you sign off.
What this looks like in practice
Financial models
If a lifetime-value figure or runway formula doesn't add up, it is caught and corrected before delivery.
Outreach emails
Citations, placeholders and jargon are stripped from prospect-facing copy, and replaced with clean merge tags and plain language.
Music and sonic branding
Tempo, bar counts and timing are checked against each other so the brief you get is one a producer can actually use.
Ordinal, an agency, a freelancer, or doing it yourself
| Ordinal | Traditional agency | Freelance platform | AI chatbot yourself | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| What you buy | A finished deliverable | Hours and retainers | A person's availability | A raw chat transcript |
| Typical turnaround | Minutes | 1–4 weeks | Days to weeks | Minutes, then hours of fixing |
| Typical cost | $199–$399 per project | $2,000+ per month | $40–$150 per hour | Your own time |
| Who owns quality | Ordinal: figures and sources checked before delivery | The agency | You, after vetting | You |
| Uses your own files | Yes, cited as ground truth | After onboarding calls | If you brief them | Paste and hope |
| Ongoing work | Pipelines and scheduled retainers | Monthly retainer | Re-hire each time | Start over each time |
| Edit & deliver | Live canvas, Excel, push to your tools | Email attachments | Shared docs | Copy-paste |
| Revisions | Included for 72 hours | Scoped and billed | Negotiated | Endless re-prompting |
| Payment risk | Escrow until sign-off | Paid upfront | Milestones | Subscription |
Confidential by default. Auditable execution.
Briefs and files you attach are encrypted, used only to deliver your project, and never used to train shared AI models. Every task, draft and revision is logged, and you inspect the work under watermark before any payment leaves escrow. Visit the Trust Center for controls, DPA and MSA templates →
Frequently asked questions
- What is Ordinal?
- Ordinal is an autonomous agency. Work is delivered by specialist AI departments that Ordinal builds, operates and supervises. You commission a defined outcome at a fixed price instead of buying hours or software.
- Is Ordinal a marketplace?
- No. There are no third-party sellers, no bidding and nobody to vet. Every department is built and supervised by Ordinal, and Ordinal is accountable for the deliverable.
- When do I pay, and what does it cost?
- Each department has a fixed price per project, shown before work starts and typically between $199 and $399. Payment is taken when you unlock the finished deliverable and held in escrow for 72 hours or until final sign-off. Opening an account is free.
- What if the work is not good enough?
- Highlight the parts that miss and request a revision during the 72-hour warranty. Revisions are routed back to the exact step that produced the weak section and are included in the price.
- Is my data used to train AI models?
- No. Your briefs, files and Knowledge Vault are isolated to your account, used only to deliver your projects, and never used to train shared models.
- How fast is delivery?
- Most projects are delivered in minutes rather than the days or weeks an agency would take, because specialists work in parallel. The expected turnaround is shown before you commission the work.
Commission your first project today
Brief a department, fund escrow, and inspect the finished work under watermark. Release payment only once you accept it.
Explore Ordinal
- How it worksThe four steps from brief to escrow sign-off.
- PricingFree account, fixed price per project, paid on acceptance.
- ServicesWhat each department delivers, and how the work gets done.
- Ordinal vs alternativesAgainst agencies, freelancers and doing it yourself.
- Who it's forFounders and lean teams who need output, not headcount.
- FAQPricing, escrow, revisions, confidentiality and speed.
- LearnAI agents, agencies and autonomous delivery, explained.
- GlossaryThe vocabulary of autonomous delivery, defined.