You have a backlog you can’t staff against, a hiring market that doesn’t want to be hired into, and a board that still wants the roadmap on schedule. The line item won’t move. The output has to.
This page is the case for nmux as a budget decision — the numbers, the model, the worked example, and a calculator you can run against your own team in the next ninety seconds.
You can’t hire your way out of this. Not at this rate, not at this price, and not on the timeline your roadmap promises. The only path that scales is output per engineer.
nmux doesn’t replace your engineers — it’s an exo-suit they wear. It removes the tax they pay on the hours they already work. Three places it shows up on the line.
Choose a scenario, pick a framing, adjust your numbers. The model uses an adoption ramp for year one and steady-state math for year two+. Every assumption is visible — export for your CFO.
| year 1 | steady | |
|---|---|---|
| Annual value | $0K | $0K |
| Net benefit | $0K | $0K |
| ROI | $0K | $0K |
| Payback | $0K | — |
| Annual savings | $0K | $0K |
| Net benefit | $0K | $0K |
| ROI | $0K | $0K |
| Payback | $0K | — |
| cost breakdown | annual |
|---|---|
| License | $144K |
| Implementation (one-time) | $25K |
| Review overhead | $0K |
| Year 1 total | $0K |
| Steady-state | $0K |
A worked example derived from the calculator above — expected scenario, 14-engineer team, $220K average loaded cost. The shape your finance team will see. Plug your own numbers in §03 to model your team.
Single static binary in your environment. No vendor lock-in to negotiate later.
Every artifact, every routing decision, every agent action — SHA-256 verified, in your repo.
Output per pipeline run, not per developer mood. Forecasting becomes possible again.
Engineering standards become enforceable gates — enforced or the pipeline doesn't advance.
Each run accumulates an ADR + spec + test bundle. Future runs reuse it. The team gets sharper.
Code, prompts, and outputs all stay in your network. Your IP is yours, no asterisk.
We’ve sat through enough budget reviews to know which questions come up. Here they are, with the short version of each answer.
Keep them. nmux is the layer above — orchestrates them into pipelines, enforces your standards, produces audit trails. Your engineers don't change their tools; you change what those tools do at the team level.
Single static binary. Uninstall and nothing breaks. Engineers fall back to the tools they were already using. No vendor lock-in to negotiate later, no migration project if you ever switch.
License scales by tier. The model in §03 runs to 120-engineer teams. Pipeline architecture is parallel by design — your scaling limit is the compute capacity you provision, not the license seat count.
Conservative 1.5×, expected 2.2×, optimistic 3.4× — every assumption visible in the calculator above. Plug your team's actual shape in. Documented adoption ramp, no hidden multipliers.
30 minutes with one of our engineers. We’ll plug your team’s numbers into the calculator, walk through the assumptions, and answer the questions your finance team will ask. No slides, no follow-up sequences.