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You asked what the whole thing costs. The straight answer is below — and then a better way to buy it: USD 1,500 R24,000 a month that keeps building, and that you can stop whenever you like.
All four phases in the September document — about USD 62,800, or AED 230,600, over roughly seven months. That is the honest answer to your question, and you can add it up yourself from the pages I already sent you.
It is also the wrong way to buy it. Fifteen features, an AI concierge and native apps is a programme, and programmes get judged all at once at the end. So here is the alternative: one monthly rate that just keeps building. Everything in that USD 62,800 R1,005,000 still arrives — in the order you want it, a piece at a time, and you never commit beyond the next month.
Same product, same scope. What differs is speed, how much you commit to, and what happens after it ships.
On either option you can stop, with no notice period and no conversation about why. You keep everything that has shipped, and the dataset is yours outright — not licensed, not held by us. On the monthly we build in step with what you have paid for, so you are never funding something you have not seen. If it is not earning its place by month three, stop.
Why I lean to the monthly. The project is faster, and if you want it that way, take it. But a fixed scope signed off and delivered is exactly how Arton ended up where it is, and the section below is what that looks like four years on. The monthly is the version where the product is still improving in 2028.
No VAT is charged. Lumanaire is not a VAT vendor, so nothing is added to these figures for any client anywhere. Dollar figures are shown first because that is how you asked. Prices are set in rand at USD/ZAR 16.00, so the dollar figure moves a little with the rate. Any data licence is contracted by PL Group directly with IATA or Sherpa, never appears on our invoice, and we take no margin on it.
Visa policy is set by the destination, not by the passport, so we verify by destination. Every destination that actually drives a decision is verified against a named government source, for all 199 passports — the 29 Schengen states and around twenty named majors at launch, growing every month. That is a modest share of the matrix by cell count and close to all of it by the questions people actually ask. Everything else is marked provisional and offers a PL adviser rather than guessing. Each verified entry carries the date we checked it and the government’s own revision date wherever they publish one, because roughly two thirds of authorities publish no date at all and we will not imply a freshness we cannot prove.
Their site takes eighteen seconds to load from a warm cache. It ships 1.86 megabytes of JavaScript to redraw a map of countries that have not moved. Their “what changed” page is publishing the headline “2026 byChanges Title” in production today. Their About page still cites figures from April 2018. And their robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, CCBot and Google-Extended, so the most-cited passport tool on earth has switched itself off from every AI assistant on the market.
None of that was a decision. It is what a product looks like when it is built to a fixed scope, signed off, and left alone. That is the failure mode the monthly exists to prevent, and it is the biggest risk in any agency-built product.
The monthly keeps two things current: your data, and your software.
The data. A nightly sweep of government sources and an AI layer reading announcements, clustering real changes into events your analyst approves. Every record dated, every record sourced.
The software. The part nobody quotes for and everybody needs. AI is rewriting how people find answers, assistants are becoming the front door to exactly the question Borderless answers, and the rules for being visible to them are being written this year. We keep you readable by them as that moves, rather than blocked like Arton — plus the framework, dependencies and security patched, and whatever is genuinely new folded in. Your competitors will be negotiating a fresh scope document to do any of that. You will already have it.
Same rate whether the month is quiet or busy, and you can stop it whenever you want.
A reversal from the September document, and you should hear it from me. Apple rejects “repackaged websites”, and clearing that rule needs the alerts feature, which this path parks — so store binaries are deliberately not in Steps 1 and 2. What you get instead is installable on a home screen with the matrix cached offline: a real icon on a real phone. Open the accounts anyway, in Passport Legacy’s own name, since Apple shows the legal entity as the seller and Google’s check can take thirty days. Fees are USD 99 a year and USD 25 once.
You were right about IATA and Sherpa, and both are buyable. The catch is what they are for: a live feed refreshes hourly and is designed to be read at the moment one person asks one question, so it cannot pre-build the thousands of pages that win search. Neither supplier publishes terms that let you republish their corpus as your own standing index. So we split it. Layer 1 is yours, from primary government sources, powering everything Google sees. Layer 2 is a live check for one traveller asking one real question, wired in once you have a contract. Neither step needs a data licence, so nothing waits on that negotiation.
Not negotiable and not an extra. Your clients’ files carry passport numbers, family detail and financials, and PL Group operates across the EU and the Gulf — so we work to GDPR, UAE PDPL and POPIA, sign a data-processing agreement, and build to whatever your compliance people require, including data residency. Encryption at rest and in transit, least-privilege access, and a full audit trail on every change made in the admin console. We will commission an independent security review before launch and hand you the report. The strongest control is in the design itself: this path holds no accounts, no logins and none of your clients’ personal data — a profile lives in the visitor’s own browser for the session and is gone when they close the tab. The safest data is the data we never store.
Each runs in parallel with the build instead of gating it.
Apple and Google developer accounts, in PL Group’s legal name. Start now and it is never the thing you are waiting on.
Open the conversation with IATA and with Sherpa. You can buy a single Timatic seat online today, but nobody publishes a price for the right to republish the data as an index, and that is the negotiation that matters. IATA also closed its public API sandbox in June 2026, so the API is contact-sales only. Our planning assumption is eight to sixteen weeks to signature, and we will replace it with a real number after the first call. You contract them directly.
Nominate the analyst who owns the data and approves changes. This is the one role we should not do for you if the dataset is to be genuinely yours.
CRM access and the office-routing rules, so a lead from Lagos lands with Lagos. Plus brand assets and a decision on the name.
You have seventy advisors across ten offices handling real border cases every day. That is a live visa-data sensing network Arton cannot buy at any price. The admin console is what turns it from an overhead into your advantage.
Arton monetises five citizenship programmes through their index. You carry twenty-one. And they capture almost nothing.
“Crafting Your Borderless Legacy.”
That is your own homepage. The name was never ours — you published this product already, you just have not built it.
The long proposal has the full teardown, the measured performance work and the data-licensing analysis. You do not need it to decide on month one.