Workstream
The selected commercial direction is a simple Research Workspace for independent researchers and small teams, plus a separate Enterprise route. What remains is launch and legal approval alongside the commercial controls that make the active, dormant, AI, and ingestion promises safe to sell.
Why this matters
Pricing is where the platform stops being a story and becomes a business. It shapes who can buy, how quickly deals move, and whether the suite feels coherent.
The active-builder unit creates a clear entry point, while the dormant workspace reduces the penalty for uneven project income without turning the product into a free account.
Current state
Research Workspace is EUR 260 per active builder per month, with EUR 30 per dormant workspace month. A workspace starts with one active builder and can add active builders, initially up to five.
Research Workspace includes launch-ready capabilities and controlled Insight Navigator beta where capacity permits. It is a connected platform offer, not a product-by-product catalogue.
Enterprise is a separate contract for connected infrastructure, wider access, governance, knowledge capacity, and support. It is not a discounted self-serve plan.
The Founder Research Cohort provides 10–20 independent researchers 60 days of no-charge access with no automatic conversion. It is designed to create live-project use, feedback, and a manual paid conversation.
The selected direction does not yet prove legal approval, technical readiness, or delivery of the commercial control plane. Central entitlements, metering, Stripe lifecycle, dormant gating, controlled Navigator import, and monitoring are paid-launch blockers.
Checklist
Foundation
The minimum decisions and assets needed so the launch story is coherent rather than aspirational.
The active and dormant workspace model, Enterprise boundary, cohort eligibility, and conversion rules need launch and legal approval.
Private preview
The hardening work required for founder sharing, pilot conversations, and limited buyer-facing use.
Billing docs already acknowledge runtime entitlement checks, but plan definition, usage limits, metering, and contract mechanics are still underbuilt.
The commercial strategy appendix now states the active and dormant workspace model, Enterprise boundary, and commercial-control prerequisites in one place.
What exists
The long-term model scales with research activity, knowledge reuse, and organisational reach. The active-builder price is the initial acquisition and learning mechanism, not the entire long-term pricing doctrine.
The buyer-readable pricing page now separates the Research Workspace route from the Enterprise route and makes the active and dormant prices visible.
The repo is honest about where the pricing system is still operationally thin: plan definition, usage limits, billing, and metering are not yet complete.
The investor-market analysis gives the commercial model stronger backing than a normal early-stage pricing draft: it explicitly supports a shift from per-seat logic toward work delivered, while reinforcing why proprietary knowledge and infrastructure depth should matter economically.
What is missing
Open strategic questions
Founder decisions
Appendix briefs
Source evidence