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Corelynx has been building software from the Bay Area for 15+ years — custom applications and MVPs, CRM and Salesforce, AI transformation, and fractional technical leadership. Headquartered in Dublin, CA, delivering across the United States. Every price published before work begins.

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Direct answer · Where is Corelynx based, and do you work with companies outside the Bay Area?

Corelynx is headquartered in Dublin, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area, with a delivery centre in Kolkata, India. We work with SME and mid-market companies across the United States — delivery is remote-first and senior-led, with US-based leadership on every engagement. Bay Area clients get in-person working sessions where they help; everyone else gets the same senior practitioners over video, which is how most of our engagements run.

Direct answer · Where is Corelynx based?

Corelynx is headquartered in Dublin, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area, with a delivery centre in Kolkata, India. We serve SME and mid-market companies across the United States. Delivery is remote-first and senior-led — the people who scope the work do the work — with in-person working sessions available for Bay Area clients where they genuinely help. The dual-shore model is why our published prices sit below Bay Area agency rates without moving the senior judgment offshore.

What Bay Area companies retain us for

Four practices, all senior-led, all priced in public.

The same five practice areas we run nationally. These four are what Bay Area companies ask for most.

SALESFORCE & AGENTFORCE

Salesforce consulting in San Francisco

Fractional administration from $2,500/month, fixed-fee quick-starts $15,000–$25,000, and Agentforce readiness and deployment $10,000–$35,000. Optimisation and rescue work rather than first-time deployments.

FRACTIONAL CTO

Fractional CTO for Silicon Valley founders

Advisory from $3,000/month through near-full CTO replacement at $15,000–$25,000. The Technical Partner model: architecture and code review, not slideware. Built for seed to Series A teams without a full-time CTO.

CRM & CUSTOM BUILD

Custom CRM development in California

Bespoke CRM where a standard platform fights the business — lending, field services, specialty distribution. $75,000–$250,000 milestone-billed, plus platform-agnostic advice on whether bespoke is right at all.

AI TRANSFORMATION

AI readiness and private LLM architecture

Readiness sprints $3,500–$7,500, pilot builds $15,000–$35,000, and AI governance from $7,500. Privacy-first architecture, and an honest answer when AI is the wrong tool.

Working with a Bay Area partner

What being local actually changes — and what it does not.

Being local changes some things and not others. Both halves stated plainly.

  • Helps: Discovery workshops where reading the room matters more than the agenda
  • Helps: Stakeholder alignment sessions with people who disagree and need to be in one room
  • Helps: Investor and board presentations where a technical voice should be present
  • Helps: Same-timezone availability for founders whose decisions cannot wait a day
  • Does not: Delivery quality — the work is the same wherever the practitioner sits
  • Does not: Response time — we answer within one business day nationally
  • Does not: Pricing — our published ranges do not change by geography
  • Does not: Access to seniority — the same practitioners work every engagement
The local market

Why does Bay Area software cost what it does?

A senior engineer in the Bay Area costs more than a senior engineer anywhere else in the world, and a Bay Area consultancy staffed entirely locally has to price that in. That is not a criticism of those firms — it is arithmetic. It does mean that a mid-market company here often pays enterprise rates for work that is not enterprise-scale.

Corelynx runs a dual-shore model: senior leadership in Dublin, California, and the delivery bench in our Kolkata centre. The person who scopes your work does your work, and they are in the Bay Area. The engineering capacity behind them is not. That is the whole reason our published pricing can sit where it does while the people you deal with are local.

We say this plainly rather than implying a large local team, because the alternative is a discovery call where you find out anyway. If having every engineer within driving distance is a hard requirement, we are not the right firm, and it is better for both of us to know that now.

Who we work with here

What kind of Bay Area company is this for?

Mostly Series A to Series C companies and established mid-market firms — roughly 20 to 500 people — that have outgrown the systems they started on. The pattern repeats: a CRM nobody trusts, a first product built fast and now load-bearing, or an AI mandate from a board with no operational problem attached to it.

The two things that make an engagement work here are an empowered decision-maker and a real forcing event. Builds with one person who can decide finish weeks faster than builds with a committee, and a programme with no deadline behind it tends to stay a conversation. Neither is about company size.

If you are pre-product-market-fit and the requirement is still moving weekly, an MVP build is usually premature — an advisory sprint at $1,500–$5,000 will tell you more for less. If you have a system that works and nobody can safely change it, that is a rescue rather than a rebuild, and the diagnostic will say which.

How an engagement starts

What happens in the first two weeks?

Every engagement starts with a fixed-scope diagnostic at $7,500–$20,000. Two weeks, and it produces a current-state assessment across systems, data quality, process and adoption; the three highest-value interventions ranked by value and readiness; a 90-day roadmap with milestone pricing; and an honest statement of what you should not do.

For Bay Area clients that normally includes one or two in-person working sessions — discovery and stakeholder alignment are the parts where being in the same room genuinely changes the outcome. The rest is remote, because it makes no difference to the quality and a great deal of difference to the cost.

The roadmap is yours regardless of what you do next. It is the document you could hand to any vendor, including not-us. A firm that will not give you that is selling you a dependency rather than a plan.

Bay Area · direct answers

Questions Bay Area buyers ask us.

Corelynx is headquartered at 11501 Dublin Blvd, Suite 200, Dublin, CA 94568, in the San Francisco Bay Area, with a delivery centre in Kolkata, India. We have been operating from the Bay Area for 15+ years.

No. We work with SME and mid-market companies across the United States, and most engagements run remote-first. Bay Area clients get in-person working sessions where those genuinely help — discovery workshops, stakeholder alignment, board presentations — and everyone else gets the same senior practitioners over video.

Corelynx publishes its ranges nationally and does not price by geography: fractional Salesforce administration $2,500–$5,000/month, fixed-fee Sales or Service Cloud quick-starts $15,000–$25,000, Agentforce readiness and setup $10,000–$35,000, and managed services $3,000–$8,000/month. Bay Area agency rates for equivalent work typically run higher.

Our published tiers are $3,000–$6,000/month for advisory, $8,000–$12,000 for embedded leadership, and $15,000–$25,000 for near-full CTO replacement. Bay Area market rates run $200–$500/hour, and a full-time CTO here costs $310,000+ fully loaded — which is the comparison that matters for a seed to Series A team.

Partly, and we are direct about it. Senior leadership and architecture are US-based on every engagement; the delivery bench is in our Kolkata centre. That dual-shore structure is why we can publish real ranges rather than negotiate them, and why our pricing sits below Bay Area agency rates without moving the judgment offshore.

Yes. For Bay Area companies we are happy to run the first working session in person. It is a 20-minute fit check either way — a practical conversation about your context and whether we are the right partner, with a senior practitioner rather than a sales rep.

Senior leadership is in Dublin, California; the delivery bench is in our Kolkata centre. The person who scopes your work does your work and is local to you. We state this up front rather than implying a large local team, because you would find out on the first call anyway — and if every engineer within driving distance is a hard requirement, we are not the right firm.

For discovery workshops and stakeholder alignment sessions, yes — those are the parts where being in one room changes the outcome. For status updates and delivery, no, because it adds cost without adding quality. That distinction is deliberate and it is how the pricing stays where it is.

Materially lower for comparable senior attention, and the reason is structural rather than a discount: the dual-shore model. Every tier is published on the engagement page — diagnostics $7,500–$20,000, builds $35,000–$250,000+ milestone-based, retainers from $4,000 a month. Compare them against a quote you already have.

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