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Professional services

The product does the work. We help you get there faster.

Everything here supports an Effortless project: getting your team trained, your rules modeled, and your system moved. You work directly with the two people who built it.

EJ AlexandraFounder & Chief Architect

Designed the rulebook method and the toolchain it runs on, twenty years in the making. Architect of EffortlessAPI's client systems, including the regulatory gaming software a state agency and a tribal gaming commission run today.

Modeling, architecture, training
Niko GutknechtCEO

Came to EffortlessAPI as a client in 2015, when PlumaFit's rules were first written down this way, and has run the client side of delivery since: priorities, quotes, status and the relationship.

Engagements, delivery, product ownership
Training

Go faster with a training session. The fee converts to credit.

Getting started on your own is free. Training is the fastest way to get it right: we walk your team through the methodology, hands-on with real tooling.

Free1 hour onboarding

Not sure yet? Spend an hour with us. We'll look at your project, tell you honestly whether Effortless is a fit, and help you get going.

Book your free onboarding

For bigger teams and multiple projects, Deep Enablement is scoped up front as a fixed package. See training details.

Consulting and onsite work

Help on your project, priced up front.

Every engagement is quoted before it starts, and everything we model or build is yours to keep.

Project consulting$250/hour, in blocks of 10An architect on call

Design reviews of your rulebook, modeling questions answered properly, and a second opinion before a big change. Unused hours stay on your account.

With EJ
Fixed price · 2 weeks$6,000Rulebook modeling sprint

We turn your spreadsheets, Airtable base or legacy database, plus what your team knows, into a rulebook you own, with the plain-English rules to check it against.

With EJ and Niko
Fixed price$2,500Migration assessment

We read your current system (Airtable, Excel, Access, a legacy database) and tell you in writing what moves, what changes and what it will take.

With EJ
Onsite$3,000/day plus travel, 2-day minimumWorkshops at your office

Modeling sessions in the room with the people who know the rules. The fastest way to get a department's process out of one person's head.

With EJ, with Niko when it helps
Monthly$3,500/monthDelivery oversight

A product owner for your Effortless project: priorities kept in order, a weekly status, and quotes for new work before it starts.

With Niko
Per seedfrom $5,000Custom seeds and tools

A seed or a tool that does not exist yet, built for your project. Yours alone, or published for everyone, your choice.

With EJ and Niko
Proven in production

Regulated gaming already runs on this.

A US state agency and a tribal gaming commission both run regulatory software built this way — the kind that gets audited. So does a live cattle auction platform, a car wash chain and a nursery group.

“EffortlessAPI upgraded our entire gaming device management system.”
John DilletteWisconsin Department of AdministrationDivision of Gaming — replaced GDIS, the state's Gaming Device Information System
“EffortlessAPI has made our entire regulatory gaming compliance operation more efficient, improving efficiency by over 250%.”
Jason TheisSMSC Gaming CommissionRegulatory gaming software — Mystic Lake Casino, Minnesota
“No way we could have rebuilt CattleUSA without your expertise.”
Mark WinterCattleUSABroadcasting live cattle auctions
Wisconsin Department of Administration
Wisconsin Department of Administration
SMSC Gaming Commission
SMSC Gaming Commission
CattleUSA
CattleUSA
Club Carwash
Club Carwash
Newton Nurseries
Newton Nurseries
Industrial U.I. Services
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