Seat pricing asks you to guess how many people will use a tool before anyone has used it. Here is the alternative we chose, and what it means for you.
Every seat-based tool creates the same small, daily friction: someone on the team needs access, and access costs money, so they do not get it. The founder stops seeing the pipeline. The person doing delivery cannot check what was promised. The tool becomes one person's tool.
We did not want that conversation to exist inside Quotelyn, so a workspace has one balance and as many people as you like. What you pay for is the work the product does — finding, enriching, sending, reading replies — not the number of people looking at it.
A subscription assumes steady use. Real businesses do not work that way. A gardener sells hard in February and cuts grass in July. An agency prospects between projects. A subscription charges the same in both months, which means you are paying most when you are earning least.
A balance simply waits. Nothing runs, nothing is charged, and when you come back the money you already added is still there.
You should never pay Quotelyn for a month in which Quotelyn did nothing for you.
Pay-as-you-go is only fair if the price of each action is visible before you run it, and if failed work is not billed. That is the standard we hold ourselves to: costs shown up front, unverified enrichment not charged, and a statement you can read without a calculator.
It also means we have to make the product genuinely useful rather than merely renewed. That seems like the right pressure to be under.
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