HelmUnit places a senior AI & automation engineer inside your business — documenting how the work really happens, automating it, and measuring that it holds up in production. You buy a fraction of that person rather than all of one, priced and invoiced in Danish kroner, and you can stop at the end of any month. Everything runs in the EU by default, so GDPR is settled before it is raised.
Denmark is the one country on this list where we cannot lean on employer taxes to make the argument, because there essentially are none. So here is the honest version, which is a weaker case for us than the Swedish one and a more interesting one.
| What you pay for | Year one | Where the number comes from |
|---|---|---|
| Base salary | DKK 860,000 | A senior machine learning or automation engineer in Copenhagen with 8+ years’ experience. |
| Occupational pension | + DKK 86,000 | Employer share at 10% of gross salary — collective agreements commonly set 8–12%. |
| Holiday supplement | + DKK 8,600 | The statutory 1% minimum for salaried staff. Many employers pay more. |
| ATP, AUB, Barsel.dk, injury cover | + DKK 14,000 | Flat per-employee contributions, not a percentage. This is the whole of Denmark’s employer social security. |
| Recruiter fee | + DKK 155,000 | A contingency search at 18% of first-year salary, mid-range for a specialist role. |
| Before they have shipped anything | DKK 1,124,000 | And 4–9 months to recruit, then 1–3 more to ramp. |
Denmark has no broad employer payroll tax — the statutory contributions come to roughly DKK 14,000 a year in flat fees, not a third of salary the way they do across the Øresund in Sweden. On payroll economics alone, Denmark is the easiest place in this group to justify hiring, and a Danish reader should know that before reading our price.
What does not change is the part that actually blocks these projects: the four to nine months it takes to find the person, the one to three more before they are productive, and the fact that you have to be confident enough about a permanent role to open it. Danish flexicurity makes ending the employment straightforward, which is a genuine advantage of hiring here — but it does not give you the year back.
So the Danish argument is narrower and we would rather state it than dress it up: buy a fraction when you want the work started this month and do not yet know how much of it there is. A quarter of our engineer is DKK 30,000 a month, and you own the code, the data and the documentation from day one, so stopping costs you nothing but the stopping.
Sources: salary from ERI SalaryExpert, senior machine learning engineer in Copenhagen with 8+ years’ experience, 2026; pension, holiday supplement and flat contribution figures from Boundless HQ’s 2026 cost-of-employment guide for Denmark, businessindenmark.virk.dk (ATP, DKK 2,376 employer share for 2026) and BDO Denmark; recruiter fee at the midpoint of the 15–30% of first-year salary charged across Europe for specialist permanent placement.
Quoted and invoiced in Danish kroner. Introductory rates for our first cohort — whatever rate you start on is the rate you keep.
Analysis at the start, steady improvement at the end. For smaller firms, often enough for the whole journey.
Steady building. The typical pace for a small firm's backlog — or continuous improvement at a mid-sized one.
A full engineer. For mid-sized firms clearing a real backlog — scale down when it's done, or add a second engineer if the backlog justifies it.
Finished building for now? Everything we built stays monitored, patched, and improved in small steps — without paying for capacity you no longer need.
Commit to twelve months and take 10% off any tier. Month-to-month stays month-to-month — cancel anytime, as always.
Listed rates are for remote delivery. We do come on-site in Denmark — and prefer to, especially while we are mapping how your work really happens — but that is a fraction of an engagement, not the shape of it. On-site days are quoted separately, by destination and duration.
All prices exclude VAT. HelmUnit invoices from AzureVibes, s.r.o. in the Czech Republic, so a business customer in Denmark receives an invoice carrying no Czech VAT and accounts for the tax locally. Your finance team will recognise the treatment.
20 August 2026. These are real invoiceable prices, not a conversion of the euro rate — we quote and invoice in this currency and carry the exchange-rate risk ourselves. They are rounded well clear of spot so ordinary currency movement never changes what you were quoted.
In the EU by default, in environments you control — which for a Danish company generally settles it. If a customer contract or a sector rule requires hosting inside Denmark specifically, we deploy there instead. You own the environment, the credentials and the data from day one, your documents are never used to train models, and we keep your EU AI Act transparency and documentation obligations in order as part of the service.
Prefer the euro price, or based outside Denmark? The standard EUR pricing applies everywhere else in Europe. If you want the method rather than the price, start with what a forward deployed engineer is.
HelmUnit starts at DKK 30,000 per month for a quarter of a senior AI and automation engineer — roughly five days of capacity a month. A half engineer is DKK 56,000 and a full engineer DKK 105,000 per month. Once the building is done and the work is mostly monitoring, the engagement scales down to DKK 15,000 a month. Every tier is month-to-month and cancellable, and prices are quoted and invoiced in kroner rather than converted from euros at billing time.
In year one, yes — roughly DKK 1,124,000 for an in-house hire on a DKK 860,000 salary once pension, statutory contributions and a recruiter fee are added, with 4–9 months of that year spent recruiting. But Denmark deserves a more careful answer than the other Nordic countries: there is no broad employer payroll tax here, so the on-costs are genuinely modest and the hire is easier to justify than it would be in Sweden. What fractional buys you in Denmark is the ability to start this month and to size the commitment to work you have not yet measured.
Yes. The price on this page is the price on the invoice — we quote in DKK, invoice in DKK, and carry the exchange-rate risk ourselves. The krone is pegged to the euro, so that risk is small here, which is one reason the Danish prices sit closest to a straight conversion. HelmUnit invoices from AzureVibes, s.r.o. in the Czech Republic, so as a Danish business you receive an invoice with no Czech VAT and account for the tax locally under the reverse charge.
Yes, by default. We deploy into environments you control and host in the EU unless you ask otherwise; hosting inside Denmark specifically is available on request. Your documents are never used to train anyone’s models, and you own the code, the data and the documentation from day one. EU AI Act transparency and documentation obligations are handled as part of the service.
Mostly, yes — listed rates cover remote delivery, and the building, testing and monitoring are all done just as well remotely. We do travel to Denmark, and prefer to during the early mapping work, because watching how the job is really done surfaces things no interview will. On-site days are quoted separately by duration. English is the working language.
Hiring in Denmark is easier than elsewhere in the Nordics, and we said so above rather than hiding it. What DKK 30,000 a month buys you is the work starting now, before you have measured how much of it there is. Tell us the process that costs your team the most.
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