Retainer (automation)
A monthly subscription covering your automation deployment, monitoring, maintenance, and updates. PURIST retainers replace the need for an in-house automation engineer you get expert-level operations at a fraction of the cost.
£68K
average fully-loaded annual cost of a senior in-house automation engineer
Glassdoor UK 2025
Expert insight
A PURIST retainer delivers the same expertise for a fraction of one hire and you get a team, not a single point of failure.
In a real workflow
A monthly automation retainer covers monitoring, fixes and small improvements to existing workflows.
Common mistakes
- Paying a retainer without a clear scope or report.
- Not tracking which changes were made under it.
Complexity level
Anyone can understand this no technical background needed.
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£68K
average fully-loaded annual cost of a senior in-house automation engineer
Glassdoor UK 2025
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