Isle Containment Budget

Isle's value to an agency is not the agent, it is the containment layer: application health monitoring, artifact checkpoints, and recovery controls around KiCad and FreeCAD. Treat checkpoint density as a cost line. On the $29/month Tier 1 plan, one managed environment supports a single client workflow, so a pilot client running automated PCB layout review needs checkpoints after each schematic stage, not after every operation. Each restore costs agent runtime, and runtime is what the agency bills against. A shop charging $2,500 for a 20-hour Isle Starter Design Automation build should expect roughly 3 to 5 recovery events per design cycle; beyond that, the retainer is funding rework, not delivery. Multi-client deployments move to custom enterprise pricing, where the same math decides how many environments one operator can supervise before margin compresses.