Five Pricing Mistakes
A ten-minute read for founders
Lead magnet, 3,735 words, 17 pages
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A repeatable method for pricing software: customer interviews, a value metric, tiering, and setting numbers you can defend. Promise: A repeatable method for setting a price you can defend to customers, investors and yourself, validated by ten customer interviews in a week. Reader: A founder who priced by guessing or by copying a competitor and now has to defend or change the number. Voice: Direct second person with occasional first person; worked examples with fictional companies; tables where they clarify; no invented statistics or named studies: reason from mechanics and examples.
That is the whole brief, as typed into the app's guided fields. The outline it produced
Your voice, your material, your call on every change.
Drafting reads up to 5 samples of your own writing, and chapters can cite the sources you add. Every assistant edit waits as a suggestion you accept or reject, and the read-through flags claims no source supports.
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A page that collects readers, from the day you publish.
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Every price before you spend it. Within 14 days of a payment, you get back what you have not used.
Credits reserved for words that never arrive come back, and the samples here are unedited. The refund policy says what "used" means, and what it does not do yet is on this page too.
The Pricing Playbook above is one of seven samples, each generated from its own brief and exported unedited. Here are four of the others, in three interior themes, each with its own generated cover. Every leaf is a render of the PDF you can download, and all seven are on the examples page.
A ten-minute read for founders
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The brief and the decisions. You describe the reader, the promise and the voice; you approve or rewrite the outline; then you read each chapter as it lands and rewrite, expand or shorten what you want changed. The drafting is done for you, chapter by chapter, against the outline you approved.
Yes. Add up to 10 sources: PDFs, text or web pages. Extracting them is free; an AI summary of a source costs credits. Chapters can cite a source inline, and the read-through flags any claim that no source supports.
Yes. Choose I have a draft on New book and add a Word document, a Markdown or text file, or links to your blog posts. They become the chapters word for word, and that costs nothing; you decide the chapter breaks and leave out what does not belong before the book is created.
It can, like any model, so the workflow assumes you will check. The read-through flags figures and claims with no supporting source, citations that do not match their source, contradictions between chapters and promises from the brief the text did not keep, naming the chapter and quoting the sentence. Fact-checking before you publish stays your job.
Every action shows its price before it runs: 10 credits for titles, an outline or a research plan; 1 per 125 words drafted, rewritten, expanded or shortened; 1 per 1,000 words for a read-through; 20 per AI cover candidate, so 20 for the batch of 1 a cover job produces; an assistant reply, what it actually cost, up to 5 a turn. Text actions reserve credits for the length you asked for and refund the difference if fewer words arrive. Editing by hand, previews and source extraction are free.
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