Why FusionWorks Became More Open to Fixed-Price Projects

For more than a decade, FusionWorks has mostly preferred time-and-materials projects. Not because we didn’t like fixed prices, but because they rarely worked in the real world of modern software development.

In Agile, nobody writes 200-page “waterfall” specifications anymore. Requirements evolve. Users learn what they actually need only when they finally see the first version. And every small change, even a reasonable one, requires human time. But human time is slow and expensive.

So, historically, fixed-price meant one of two things:

• You load the project with a massive risk buffer, which nobody likes.
  
• You accept the risk and pray that the requirements won’t shift too much, which they always do.

And that’s why, even when clients pushed for fixed prices, we were careful, conservative, and preferred T&M. We wanted to always deliver what the client really needed, not just what’s written in the document.

Then something fundamentally changed.

AI Changed the Equation

With angen.ai and our internal “AI-at-every-stage” development pipeline, the nature of change transformed itself.

The real cost of change has never been the conversation. It’s not about writing a sentence like “add a filter here” or “extend this workflow.” The real cost was always in the coding.

Developers needed a day or two (sometimes a week) to rewrite pieces of the system. And multiplied by any European rate, this becomes real money, which is exactly why fixed-price budgets used to be so fragile.

AI broke that bottleneck. Today, our teams can:

• regenerate modules in hours, not days
  
• rewrite architecture-consistent code in bulk
  
• apply change requests extremely fast
  
• keep code quality, patterns, and standards intact
  
• maintain predictable velocity because AI removes human bottlenecks. 

We suddenly have more “budget room” inside the same fixed price.

If earlier 80–90% of the budget was spent on pure coding effort, now AI reduces that dramatically. That free space can absorb many of the natural requirement shifts that happen during a real project without blowing up the budget, team morale, or delivery timeline.

Fixed Price Becomes Fair Again

This new reality allows us to offer fixed-price projects in a way that feels healthy for both sides. 

For clients

• predictable budget
  
• less fear of the classic “change request” stress
  
• faster delivery
  
• more flexibility during development
  
• same quality, but multiplied by AI speed.

For us

• less risk
  
• more consistency
  
• less time wasted on manual coding
  
• more space to handle changes within the planned scope
  
• a clear, reliable delivery pipeline powered by angen.ai.

We are no longer afraid that a small product correction will cost two weeks of human time. Now it’s usually a couple of hours of AI-assisted regeneration plus human supervision.

A New Era for Our Delivery Model

So yes, for the first time in many years, we at FusionWorks become genuinely open to fixed-price projects again. Because our capabilities changed.

AI makes software development faster, more predictable, and more resilient to changes. And when the coding bottleneck shrinks, the whole fixed-price model becomes much more practical and much more fair.

In the end, fusion of human engineering + AI automation is exactly what makes this possible.

And that’s what angen.ai was built for.