Financial Analysis

Finances

Pre-Operation Budget

The following table presents the estimated budget required to develop Sentinel and bring it to market.

Category	Item	Unit Cost (COP)	Quantity	Subtotal (COP)
Personnel	Scrum Master / Developer	$18,000/hr	180 hrs	$3,240,000
Personnel	Architect / Developer	$18,000/hr	160 hrs	$2,880,000
Personnel	Backend Developer	$18,000/hr	150 hrs	$2,700,000
Personnel	Frontend Developer	$18,000/hr	140 hrs	$2,520,000
Personnel	UX/UI Designer	$18,000/hr	100 hrs	$1,800,000
Personnel	QA / Tester	$18,000/hr	100 hrs	$1,800,000
Equipment	Development hardware	—	—	$0 (team-owned)
Software Licenses	OpenAI API (gpt-4o-mini, 3 months)	$60,000/mo	3	$180,000
Software Licenses	Claude Code Pro (3 developers, 3 months)	$80,000/mo per user	9	$720,000
Software Licenses	Supabase (Free tier)	$0	3	$0
Software Licenses	GitHub (Free tier)	$0	3	$0
Intellectual Property	DNDA registration (Colombia)	Free	1	$0
Advertising	—	—	—	$0
			TOTAL	$15,840,000 COP

Note: Software registration with Colombia's Dirección Nacional de Derechos de Autor (DNDA) is free and processes within 15 business days. Development equipment costs are excluded since all team members use personal devices.

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Operating Budget

Once the MVP is developed, the following costs apply to distribution, sales, and ongoing operation of the product.

Fixed Costs

Costs that remain constant regardless of the number of users or incidents processed, estimated monthly.

Item	Monthly Cost (COP)
Supabase Pro (DB + Auth + Realtime)	$100,000
Cloud VPS (backend + LangFuse + ChromaDB)	$200,000
Domain registration	$8,300 (~$100,000/year)
GitHub Free (CI/CD included)	$0
Total Fixed Costs	$308,300 COP/month

Variable Costs

Costs that scale with the number of users or incidents processed.

Item	Cost per Unit
OpenAI API per incident (~5 LLM calls × 800 tokens)	~$12 COP / incident
Supabase storage per incident (logs, ~5 KB)	<$1 COP / incident
Additional compute per active agent session (est. 100 incidents/day)	~$50,000 COP / month