// AP Agency · The Lab

Proof, measured.

Most agencies show you a portfolio. We show you the forensics. Every system below was valued from its real git history, a line count of its actual source, and our own defect tracker — not a sales deck. Click any project to see the evidence behind the number.

$9.9M–$25.3MTraditional build cost
130Person-years of engineering
478KLines of code shipped
2KGit commits
304Defects tracked
105Regression tests

Range = two independent models bracketing the estimate. Calendar = real git span. Nothing here is invented.

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Curo

$2.1M–$5.3M

Privacy-first encrypted email platform — webmail, calendar, E2EE, AI triage, billing

27.3person-years
17.6×18.6motraditional team
~17.0xfaster (~5wk)
101Klines of code
84 features documented 552 commits 218 defects tracked 49 regression tests
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steve1-console

$1.1M–$2.6M

The agency's own ops brain — defect tracking, nightly regression, agents, RAG memory

13.5person-years
10.6×15.3motraditional team
~10.7xfaster (~6wk)
52Klines of code
86 features documented 178 commits 22 defects tracked 4 regression tests
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SwiftBrand

$515K–$1.1M

AI brand operating system — name generation, brand kits, deep-dive reports, SEO engine

6.1person-years
6.0×12.2motraditional team
~15.1xfaster (~4wk)
25Klines of code
27 features documented 122 commits 8 defects tracked 36 regression tests
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BKFK Join (Landing Pages)

$106K–$199K

Boxing-gym join/onboarding + payments landing system

1.1person-years
1.8×7.6motraditional team
~4.5xfaster (~7wk)
5Klines of code
213 commits 1 regression test
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AP Agency

$60K–$106K

This agency's own site + 46-page local-SEO engine

0.6person-years
1.1×6.4motraditional team
~7.5xfaster (~4wk)
3Klines of code
20 commits 3 regression tests
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BKFK Main

$57K–$100K

Boxing-gym main website + booking

0.6person-years
1.1×6.3motraditional team
~4.9xfaster (~6wk)
3Klines of code
97 commits 2 regression tests
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Perf Watchdog

$51K–$88K

Self-healing performance sentry for the whole fleet

0.5person-years
1.0×6.1motraditional team
~5.9xfaster (~5wk)
2Klines of code
11 commits 16 defects tracked 2 regression tests
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Fight Night

$34K–$57K

Fight-night event mode layered on the gym platform

0.3person-years
0.7×5.4motraditional team
~2.5xfaster (~9wk)
2Klines of code
26 commits 1 regression test
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How we costed it

Effort is bracketed by two citable models: a productivity model (~25 finished, tested lines of code per developer-day) as the low bound, and COCOMO II post-architecture (PM = 2.94 · KLOC^1.10) as the high bound. The traditional team & schedule come from COCOMO’s schedule equation (TDEV = 3.67 · PM^0.28) — so “team replaced” is a normal-paced team, and our real git span becomes the speed advantage. Cost uses a fully-loaded $135K/yr blended developer rate. We deliberately show a range so a skeptical reviewer can’t catch a stretch.