Boardroom Answers · People & Operations · Operational Excellence
Walk me through the commercial model — tiers, seats, what triggers overage, and where the hidden costs are, because there are always hidden costs with AI products.?
The question a Chief Procurement Officer (CPO-P) asks.
The short answer
Trial 3 seats, Basic $149/5, Pro $649/10, Max $1,799/50, Enterprise unlimited — all sixty-four modules in every tier, AI consumption metered and budget-capped so there is no surprise inference bill.
The full executive answer
The model is deliberately simple: a free trial with three seats, then Basic at 129 dollars a month with five seats, Pro at 549 with ten, Max at 1,499 with fifty, and Enterprise with unlimited seats on custom terms. All tiers draw on the same sixty-four modules — the tiering is capacity and service level, not a feature-hostage matrix where the governance capabilities you actually need hide behind the enterprise gate.
On the AI-cost question, which is the right question: AI usage is metered and budget-governed inside the platform — there are explicit usage and budget controls, including on the assistant layer, precisely so consumption is visible and capped rather than a surprise line item. You will not discover a five-figure inference bill after a heavy quarter; the cost governance the product preaches for your AI estate is applied to its own.
Where the honest non-hidden costs live: your people's time. The diagnostic takes real executive hours to answer well, and the change programme the platform structures is your organisation's effort to run — no platform can buy that for you. Implementation fees: none for self-serve tiers; enterprise onboarding is scoped in the order form. And pre-launch pricing means founding customers lock terms that will not survive our maturity — which is a time-limited arbitrage I am happy to point out.
Grounded in: ITIL 4 service financial management from the customer view — transparent unit pricing with governed consumption rather than open-ended usage exposure.
The natural next questions
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- You are a one-person company. If you get hit by a bus, sign with a competitor, or simply burn out, my organisation has built board processes on a dead product. Why would I ever accept that risk?
- Your product is a wrapper on other people's infrastructure — Vercel, Supabase, Anthropic, OpenAI, Clerk. How do you manage YOUR vendors, and what happens to me when one of them fails or changes terms?
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