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Entra Private Access (PA) Starter kit

A-CX offers tailored consulting packages to simplify your Microsoft Entra Private Access (PA) implementation journey. Whether you need a quick demo, a lab-based evaluation, or a fully deployed Proof of Concept (PoC), our flexible solutions are designed to fit your needs and budget, guiding you from initial exploration to complete implementation.

Small

Initial exploration and demo

$800 /total

Requirements gathering: Basic discussion on existing setup
Live Demo on A-CX lab
Deliverables and documentation: Feasibility study and Light implementation plan
Supported environments: Azure
1 day delivery

Medium

Lab-based proof-of-concept

$2,500 /total

Requirements gathering: Basic requirements and identity gathering
Live Demo on A-CX lab
Deliverables and documentation: Requirements and feasibility study document with highlevel network and architecture deployment diagrams
Supported environments: Azure
1 week delivery

Large

End-to-end Proof of Concept implementation

$9,999 /total

Requirements gathering: Full design for PoC applications
Customized PoC for client environment
Performance and connectivity testing
Deliverables and documentation: Requirements and feasibility study document with highlevel network and architecture deployment diagrams and a deployed PoC
Supported environments: Azure and or AWS
3 week delivery

Features	Small $800 /total	Medium $2,500 /total	Large $9,999 /total
Requirements gathering	Basic discussion on existing setup	Basic requirements and identity gathering	Full design for PoC applications
Live Demo on A-CX lab			–
Customized PoC for client environment	–	–
Performance and connectivity testing	–	–
Deliverables and documentation	Feasibility study and Light implementation plan	Requirements and feasibility study document with highlevel network and architecture deployment diagrams	Requirements and feasibility study document with highlevel network and architecture deployment diagrams and a deployed PoC
Supported environments	Azure	Azure	Azure and or AWS
Access requirements	–	–

Small $800 /total
Requirements gathering	Basic discussion on existing setup
Live Demo on A-CX lab
Customized PoC for client environment	–
Performance and connectivity testing	–
Deliverables and documentation	Feasibility study and Light implementation plan
Supported environments	Azure
Access requirements	–

Medium $2,500 /total
Requirements gathering	Basic requirements and identity gathering
Live Demo on A-CX lab
Customized PoC for client environment	–
Performance and connectivity testing	–
Deliverables and documentation	Requirements and feasibility study document with highlevel network and architecture deployment diagrams
Supported environments	Azure
Access requirements	–

Large $9,999 /total
Requirements gathering	Full design for PoC applications
Live Demo on A-CX lab	–
Customized PoC for client environment
Performance and connectivity testing
Deliverables and documentation	Requirements and feasibility study document with highlevel network and architecture deployment diagrams and a deployed PoC
Supported environments	Azure and or AWS
Access requirements

Code Analysis

Manually reviewing thousands of lines of code is time-consuming. Our AI-powered code analysis speeds things up by identifying and prioritizing vulnerabilities, poor practices, and open-source dependencies. Combined with human expertise, we ensure a fast, thorough assessment of your codebase, cloud deployments, and software health.

Small

A quick review of software asset quality.

$2,500 /total

Lines of code (loc) : 50000 loc included 500 for each incremental 20000 loc
Supported languages: All
Supported clouds: NA
Executive summary report
Vulnerability statistics and heatmap
2 week delivery

Medium

Deeper analysis and more complex environments

$7,500 /total

Lines of code (loc) : 50000 loc included 500 for each incremental 10000 loc
Supported languages: Includes one 500 for each additional language
Supported clouds: NA
Executive summary report
Vulnerability statistics and heatmap
4 week delivery

Large

Full analysis and a 360-degree view of software

$15,000 /total

Lines of code (loc) : 50000 loc included 500 for each incremental 5000 loc
Supported languages: Includes one 500 for each additional language
Supported clouds: One included 2500 for each additional cloud
Executive summary report
Vulnerability statistics and heatmap
6 week delivery

Features	Small $2,500 /total	Medium $7,500 /total	Large $15,000 /total
Lines of code (loc)	50000 loc included 500 for each incremental 20000 loc	50000 loc included 500 for each incremental 10000 loc	50000 loc included 500 for each incremental 5000 loc
Supported languages	All	Includes one 500 for each additional language	Includes one 500 for each additional language
Supported clouds	NA	NA	One included 2500 for each additional cloud
Executive summary report
Vulnerability statistics and heatmap
Vulnerability prioritization
Security Analysis
Dependency tree of code	–
Human expert’s critical vulnerability review	–
Human expert’s high-level vulnerability validation	–
SAST (Static Application Security Testing)	–	–
SCA (Software Composition Analysis)	–	–
Database analysis	–	–
Cloud infrastructure analysis (AWS and/or Azure)	–	–
SCM (software configuration management) analysis	–	–

Small $2,500 /total
Lines of code (loc)	50000 loc included 500 for each incremental 20000 loc
Supported languages	All
Supported clouds	NA
Executive summary report
Vulnerability statistics and heatmap
Vulnerability prioritization
Security Analysis
Dependency tree of code	–
Human expert’s critical vulnerability review	–
Human expert’s high-level vulnerability validation	–
SAST (Static Application Security Testing)	–
SCA (Software Composition Analysis)	–
Database analysis	–
Cloud infrastructure analysis (AWS and/or Azure)	–
SCM (software configuration management) analysis	–

Medium $7,500 /total
Lines of code (loc)	50000 loc included 500 for each incremental 10000 loc
Supported languages	Includes one 500 for each additional language
Supported clouds	NA
Executive summary report
Vulnerability statistics and heatmap
Vulnerability prioritization
Security Analysis
Dependency tree of code
Human expert’s critical vulnerability review
Human expert’s high-level vulnerability validation
SAST (Static Application Security Testing)	–
SCA (Software Composition Analysis)	–
Database analysis	–
Cloud infrastructure analysis (AWS and/or Azure)	–
SCM (software configuration management) analysis	–

Large $15,000 /total
Lines of code (loc)	50000 loc included 500 for each incremental 5000 loc
Supported languages	Includes one 500 for each additional language
Supported clouds	One included 2500 for each additional cloud
Executive summary report
Vulnerability statistics and heatmap
Vulnerability prioritization
Security Analysis
Dependency tree of code
Human expert’s critical vulnerability review
Human expert’s high-level vulnerability validation
SAST (Static Application Security Testing)
SCA (Software Composition Analysis)
Database analysis
Cloud infrastructure analysis (AWS and/or Azure)
SCM (software configuration management) analysis

Our Story

Small, senior teams with the right tools outperform larger ones. That is the bet A-CX is built on. Our leadership has led product and engineering at Nokia, Microsoft, F-Secure, and Goldman Sachs, scaled companies to three Inc. 5000 rankings, and earned Forbes, TechCrunch, and EY Entrepreneur of the Year recognition. We move clients from idea to production with product strategy, modern engineering, and practical AI, and build the foundation to run what they start. Outcomes made to last.

Meet the Team

Ilpo is CAIO and co-founder of A-CX. He has led product and technology development for Fortune 500 companies and served on the boards of startups and SMEs. Based in Silicon Valley, he builds solid applications and services at scale.

Mikko is COO and co-founder of A-CX. At Nokia, he led 30 product managers on award-winning products shipped across tens of millions of phones. He later built a Developer Experience team at Microsoft and ran F-Secure North America.

Ville is CEO and co-founder of A-CX. A three-time Inc. 5000 honoree and EY Entrepreneur of the Year honoree, featured in Forbes, TechCrunch, and Harvard Business Review, and a TEDx speaker on leadership and technology.

What Sets Us Apart

Our Own AI-Native Tools

We build software with coding tools we built ourselves. Small, senior teams ship about 10x faster without cutting corners, so you get production-grade software without adding headcount.

100% Satisfaction Guarantee

If you are not satisfied with the work, you do not pay. We stand behind every line of code we ship, so the risk sits with us, not with you.

Governance Built In

Most enterprises have an "after the pilot" problem: adoption races ahead of control. Through A-CX AI Nexus we give you centralized visibility to run AI safely in production and scale what you started.

Quick Facts

6 years in business

Team Breakdown

Software Engineering (6)

Artificial Intelligence (5)

Cloud and Security (3)

Product Design (3)

Tools and Technology

GitHub

Azure

AWS

Google Cloud Platform

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Azure DevOps

Jira

Confluence

Figma

Microsoft Azure

Commonly Asked Questions

We front-load the work that matters most: requirements and specification, before any code is written. When AI-driven builds run in days rather than months, there is no room to work out what to build while coding is underway, and assumptions get baked into the architecture. So a senior product manager translates your intent into a clear, executable brief, using structured questions and curated, implementable options to surface decisions and trade-offs early. We settle the things that are expensive to change later, such as API integrations, authentication and identity, data volumes at scale, and compliance, before the first line of code. Around 60% of rework traces back to incomplete requirements, so this upfront work is where we take cost out. From there we move through plan, build, and deployment with a small, senior team and continuous validation, keeping a human accountable for the outcome at every step.

We design security and compliance in from the start rather than bolting them on later: zero-trust principles, encrypted communications, and integrated identity and access management, with controls aligned to the regulations that apply to your project, such as GDPR or HIPAA. We scope those controls with you during specification, so requirements like role-based access, data residency, consent, and auditability are settled up front rather than discovered in production. A-CX is a Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider and AI Cloud Partner, an AWS Partner Network member, and is registered on SAM.gov as a U.S. government-vetted vendor.

We work as an engineering partner, and it shows day to day. Engagement teams stay small and senior, so you work directly with the people doing the work rather than through layers. We communicate proactively, flag risks early with a plan, and bring product, design, development, and AI under one engagement, so you are not coordinating multiple vendors for one outcome. We build with your users and stakeholders through continuous validation instead of disappearing for weeks and returning with a reveal, and we work with the tools, systems, and constraints you already have.

We use AI-native coding tools we built ourselves, so a small senior team ships production-grade software far faster without adding headcount. Coding agents write a convincing first draft, not finished code, so our engineers direct and review every step: we verify each response, own the documentation the agent generates, trace the logic before merging, and never ship code no one has read. AI handles the repetitive implementation work; our people own the judgment, architecture, and quality. The result is speed with control.

A-CX AI Nexus is our platform for running AI in production. Most organizations do not have an AI problem; they have an "after the pilot" problem, where tools get adopted fast and then governance and visibility fall behind. Nexus is a set of cloud-agnostic libraries that give you the control plane to deploy agentic AI securely and reliably at scale: centralized visibility into every AI tool and agent, lifecycle management for models and integrations, and continuity when something breaks. It is the foundation that lets you scale what you started instead of stalling after the prototype.

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Ilpo NivaChief AI Officer and Co-Founder

Mikko PeltolaCOO and Co-Founder

Ville HouttuCEO and Co-Founder

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