Project Cost Estimate

TuraHire — the AI hiring copilot. An end-to-end recruitment platform that parses resumes, matches candidates to roles, and runs interviews, with email & cloud-storage imports built in. This is the full cost to build and operate it.

Engagement: 6-month build + run-rateCurrency: INR (₹) & USD ($)FX: 1 USD = ₹88GST: 18% included
₹53.21 L build incl. GST≈ $60,465₹35.45 L / yr run-rate
Planning estimate · 11 Jun 2026
01 Scope of this Estimate

What the number covers

Included

  • People (fractional) — 2 Devs, Architect, Strategist, SEO + Content
  • Cloud compute — OCI, production only
  • Managed data — Supabase, Pinecone, Redis/Upstash
  • Auth / CMS / connectors — Clerk, Sanity, Composio
  • AI/ML APIs — Gemini, Voyage AI, OpenAI (usage)
  • SEO, SaaS, domain, contingency, GST

Deferred to roadmap

  • Security, compliance & PII hardening
  • Backups / point-in-time recovery
  • Accessibility (WCAG) audit
  • High availability & multi-AZ / DR
  • Added roles (Designer, QA, DevOps/SRE)
  • Cyber / PII insurance
Security, compliance, backups, HA & extra roles are projected separately in the Future Roadmap (slides 15–16) to keep the build number honest.
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02Methodology & Assumptions

Ground rules for the model

AssumptionValueNotes
FX rate1 USD = ₹88Confirmed
Build duration6 monthsConfirmed
Team modelFractionalDevs 100%; Architect 40%; Strategist 50%; SEO 50%
Volume (assumed)~15k resumes/mo, ~5k MAULaunch scale
EnvironmentsProduction onlyNo staging/dev cloud
Plan tierBasic / entry paidSupabase, Pinecone, Clerk, Composio
GST18% includedIncl. RCM on foreign SaaS (OIDAR)
Contingency10%On build phase
Post-launchRetainer includedSee slide 13
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03Stack Inventory

Discovered from the codebase

From requirements.txt, package.json, .env examples and CI config.

Compute, CI & Edge

OCI Ampere A1 logo OCI Ampere A1 Docker logo Docker CircleCI logo CircleCI Cloudflare logo Cloudflare

Data

Supabase Cloud logo Supabase Cloud Pinecone logo Pinecone Redis / Upstash logo Redis / Upstash

AI / ML

Gemini logo Gemini OpenAI logo OpenAI spaCy NLP logo spaCy NLP

Auth, CMS & Connectors

Clerk logo Clerk Sanity logo Sanity Resend logo Resend Cal.com logo Cal.com Sentry logo Sentry
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04People Cost — Fractional Team

The build driver

RoleAlloc.Full ₹/moEffective ₹/mo
Developer 1100%1,50,0001,50,000
Developer 2100%1,50,0001,50,000
Solutions Architect40%3,00,0001,20,000
Product Strategist50%2,25,0001,12,500
SEO Specialist50%1,20,00060,000
SEO Content Writer50%60,00030,000
Team — monthly₹6,22,500
Team — 6 months₹37,35,000
Team — monthly
$7,074
India-market, fully-loaded
Team — 6-month build
$42,443
≈ ₹37,35,000
~91% of the total build cost sits in this table — lock the split early.
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05Cloud Infrastructure — OCI

Production only

ComponentSpec$/mo₹/mo
Production app nodeA1 8 OCPU / 48 GB1119,768
Block storage200 GB5440
Object storage (resumes)100 GB3264
Flexible Load Balancer10 Mbps8704
Container Registry (OCIR)storage2176
Egress< 10 TB free00
OCI total$129₹11,352
Oracle Cloud logo Oracle Cloud Docker logo Docker
OCI monthly
$129
Ampere A1 ARM price-performance
Single-region, single production node. HA / multi-AZ is a roadmap item (slide 16).
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06Managed Services & Connectors

Basic / entry paid plans

ServicePlan$/mo₹/mo
SupabasePro252,200
PineconeStandard (min)504,400
ClerkPro252,200
ComposioCore292,552
Sanity.ioGrowth151,320
ResendPro201,760
Cal.comTeams151,320
Upstash RedisFixed/basic10880
SentryTeam262,288
CloudflarePro (WAF)201,760
CircleCIPerformance151,320
Subtotal$250₹22,000
Supabase logo Supabase Pinecone logo Pinecone Clerk logo Clerk Sanity logo Sanity Resend logo Resend Cloudflare logo Cloudflare Sentry logo Sentry CircleCI logo CircleCI
Subtotal monthly
$250
≈ ₹22,000
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07AI / ML API Usage

Volume-based · ~15k resumes/mo

ServiceUse$/mo₹/mo
Google GeminiParsing + validity classifier504,400
Voyage AIEmbeddings + rerank-2403,520
OpenAIFallback / refinement201,760
Subtotal$110₹9,680
Gemini logo Gemini OpenAI logo OpenAI
Subtotal monthly
$110
≈ ₹9,680
Most variable line — scales ~linearly with volume. At 10× (~150k/mo) budget ~₹95k/mo. Set billing alerts.
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08SEO — Team + Tooling

Growth lever, avoiding double-counts

Item$/mo₹/mo
SEO tool (Ahrefs Lite / SEMrush)12911,352
Google Analytics, MS ClarityFree0
SEO tooling (additive)$129₹11,352
Ahrefs logo Ahrefs SEMrush logo SEMrush Analytics logo Analytics
The SEO Specialist (50%) and Content Writer (50%) already sit in the Team table (slide 4) — ₹90,000/mo combined. Only the tool is added here to avoid double-counting.
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09Domain & Fixed Annual + Dev Tooling

The small, predictable lines

ItemBasis₹
Primary domain (.com)per year1,200
Secondary / brand domainper year800
SSL/TLSLet's Encrypt / Cloudflare0
Domain total₹2,000/yr
Dev tooling (GitHub Team + PM)per month6,000
GitHub Team logo GitHub Team Cloudflare SSL logo Cloudflare SSL
Premium tooling (Figma, AI assistants) deferred to roadmap.
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10Recurring Infra + SaaS

During build & run

Bucket₹/mo$/mo
OCI compute (prod only)11,352129
Managed services & connectors22,000250
AI/ML API usage9,680110
SEO tooling11,352129
Dev tooling6,00068
Recurring infra + SaaS₹60,384$686
Monthly
₹60,384
≈ $686 / month
Annual (infra + SaaS only)
₹7.25 L
≈ $8,234 / yr
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11Grand Total — 6-Month Build

The headline build number

Line₹
Fractional team (6 mo)37,35,000
Recurring infra + SaaS (×6)3,62,304
Domain (1 yr)2,000
Subtotal40,99,304
Contingency (10%)4,09,930
Subtotal + contingency45,09,234
GST (18%, incl. RCM)8,11,662
Total (incl. GST)₹53,20,896
Build incl. GST
$60,465
₹53.21 L
Build excl. GST
$51,241
₹45.09 L
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12 Sensitivity

What moves the number

Team allocation
~91% of build
Architect 40%→100% adds ₹10.8 L / $12,273 over 6 mo
AI volume
+₹85k/mo
at 10× resumes ≈ +$966/mo
SEO team (2 part-timers)
₹5.4 L
≈ $6,136 of build · toggleable
Each extra month
₹6.82 L
₹6.22 L team + ₹60k infra ≈ $7,760
Pinecone / Supabase overages beyond base can add $50–300/mo at scale.
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13Post-Launch — Annual Run-Rate

Ongoing operation (incl. retainer)

Bucket₹/mo$/mo
Infra + SaaS + AI + tooling60,384686
Maintenance retainer (≈0.5 Dev + DevOps)1,00,0001,136
Ongoing SEO team (50%)90,0001,023
Monthly run-rate₹2,50,384$2,845
Annual run-rate (incl. GST)
₹35.45 L
≈ $40,289 / yr
Drop the SEO team → ₹1,60,384/mo (₹19.25 L/yr ex-GST) if SEO pauses post-launch.
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14 Committed vs Roadmap

Keeping the build number honest

✅ This build funds

The working product — parsing, AI, connectors, SEO, production infra, and the post-launch retainer.

🔜 Budget later (slides 15–16)

Backups / PITR, security & compliance, accessibility, HA/DR, added roles, insurance.

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15Future Roadmap — Phase 2 (one-time)

Commission when scaling / selling enterprise

ItemWhy₹ (est.)
Security penetration testAuth + PII surface2,00,000
Legal & complianceDPDP 2023 + GDPR, DPA, T&C1,50,000
Accessibility (WCAG) auditPublic recruiting product75,000
One-time subtotal₹4,25,000
Incl. GST
~$5,699
ex-GST ≈ $4,830
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16Future Roadmap — Phase 2 (recurring & scale)

Projected add-ons at scale

Item₹/moNote
Supabase PITR backups8,800PII recovery
Business email (Workspace)800Org email
Uptime monitoring2,000SLA / incident
Premium tooling (Figma, AI)9,000Productivity
Recurring roadmap add₹20,600≈ $234/mo

Also projected (not costed)

  • Designer, QA Engineer, DevOps/SRE roles
  • HA / multi-AZ (~2× compute)
  • Cyber / PII insurance (₹50k–1.5 L/yr)
  • ML node scaling under load
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17Recommendations

Where to focus

  • Lock the fractional split (slide 4) early — it's 91% of build cost.
  • Set hard budget alerts on Gemini / Voyage / OpenAI — the most volatile line.
  • Use OCI Ampere free egress (10 TB) and ARM price-performance.
  • Sequence the roadmap: backups + compliance first once real candidate PII flows.
  • Treat SEO team as a growth lever — keep or pause independent of core run-rate.
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Headline Numbers

6-Month Build (incl. GST)
₹53.21 L
≈ $60,465 · ex-GST ₹45.09 L / $51,241
Annual Run-Rate (incl. GST)
₹35.45 L
≈ $40,289/yr · infra-only ₹7.25 L
Future Roadmap
₹4.25 L
one-time + ₹20.6k/mo (projected)

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All figures estimates @ ₹88/USD