Upload the requirement document if you have one. If not, pick the kind of software: a public portal, software for your staff, an online store, a booking app, an AI chatbot or something else.
A saved template starts you with an earlier estimate's answers.
4.2 Patients shall book, move and cancel appointments online, and receive an SMS reminder.
The usual features for your kind of software come first, with the most common already ticked. Write a few lines about it and Aakalan ticks the ones you describe, showing the words it matched. Anything missing, add it yourself.
With a document, every feature found shows its page and sentence.
| Feature | Without AI | With AI |
|---|---|---|
| Bookings and appointmentsStandard | ₹3.3 L | ₹2.6 L |
| Online fee paymentBasic | ₹1.4 L | ₹1.1 L |
| Mobile appBasic | ₹3.9 L | ₹3 L |
| SMS reminders | ₹1.1 L | ₹0.9 L |
A first version or the full product, website or app too, how many people will use it, other software to connect, old data, where it runs and how long it should be looked after. One question per screen, in plain words.
Not sure? Choose “Not sure”: we use the usual answer and widen the range.
How many people will use it?
How bad an hour of downtime is, a security audit, monthly reports, a ready design, how much the chatbot will be used, help at launch. Skip anything you don't know.
Check every answer on one screen before calculating.
The low, likely and high cost; the building cost of each feature with and without AI tools; the team by role and months to build; everything inside the price; costs paid to others; and similar real projects.
Download the PDF report or the Excel bill of quantities to share.
When you upload a document, Aakalan lists what it asks for that the estimate leaves out, such as penalties or warranty, and drafts questions to send the client about vague or missing points.
Ask, update the answers, and calculate again for a narrower range.
It stays inside your organisation's account. The text is sent only to the AI service your company has set up, to read it, and is treated as data, never as instructions. Without an AI key, a keyword reader runs on our own server instead.
Day rates, cloud prices and service fees are stored with their source and date. Each estimate keeps the versions it used, so it never changes later; re-pricing at today's rates makes a new version. See all features.
Tick what it should do or upload the requirement document, answer ten short questions, and get the low, likely and high cost.