Pricing

Serious intelligence, priced like software.

A dedicated intelligence desk has always cost what a team of analysts costs. Ours is produced by an engine that watches everything at once and is graded against reality in public — which is why it can price like software instead of headcount. Start free and upgrade when it earns it.

One rule sits under every price on this page: the daily brief, the record, the calibration table, and every correction are free, for anyone. What costs money is work done on your behalf: a Watch keeps a question of yours continuously answered and verified; a Read produces one grounded, source-checked answer on demand. Plans bundle those units with service attached, and agents can read the machine-readable tariff directly.

The units

Opening rates, held to the founding-customer promise below. Units ship inside the plans on this page, and unit-by-unit purchase is live for machine customers through desk-issued meter accounts.

Watch

$20 per unit, per month

One question or concern kept continuously answered and verified, its history recorded from the day it starts. Reads of your watched question are included.

Read

$0.25 per unit

One grounded, source-checked answer produced on demand.

How billing works

  • Metered means nothing you prepay expires. There is no wallet of credits with a clock on it: work is billed after it is done, and a plan month runs its full month.
  • The month you’re in is always refundable. If the desk isn’t earning its place, say so and we return the month you’re in, in full — no forms, no retention call, no reason required. We don’t prorate and we don’t need to: you either keep the month or you get all of it back.
  • A Watch cancels cleanly. Cancel anytime; coverage stops at the end of the period already underway, and that month is refundable like any other. The record the Watch built stays on the record, and you still get its coverage-acceptance report — that report grades the work, it just doesn’t gate the bill.
  • Rate changes are forward-only. Rates change forward-only with 30 days' published notice; every past revision stays listed here. The dated revision log is public on the machine-readable tariff — no surprise repricing, ever.
  • No refund riddles. A Read spent is work done; a Watch month started is a month of work. We say that plainly here rather than hiding it in terms — and if we ever bill you for work we did not do, that is our defect to fix, not yours to argue.

Why not just ask an AI?

If being wrong is free, so is Google. If being wrong costs you something, we're twenty-five cents.

Commodity grounded-search APIs run roughly $0.001 to $0.02 per query. A Read is $0.25, flat. The premium buys the verification pass, the named-source provenance, the calibration grade, and a public track record you can audit. It is priced for consequential decisions, not casual traffic.

We may not be for you. If a wrong or stale answer costs you nothing, free search or a general-purpose chat model is the right tool, and we will say so. If staleness or error has a price (a filing, a shipment, a trade, a briefing someone acts on), a source-traced, verified, graded answer is the cheapest item in the decision path.

For humans

Tracker

Free

no card, no trial clock

  • One desk briefing, delivered by email
  • Track up to 5 topics & events of your own
  • The public wire, events, and daily record
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Analyst

$99/mo

founding-member pricing · self-serve checkout

  • Everything in Tracker
  • Unlimited topics & events tracked
  • Ask the Answer Engine without daily caps
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Power User

$199/mo

founding-member pricing · self-serve checkout

  • All six desks, briefed daily
  • Unlimited topics & events tracked
  • Priority coverage requests and Answer Engine access
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For systems — AI agents & pipelines

Machines are subscribers here too. The feed is open and anonymous with honest limits; identified keys lift them. The paid path is metered: your bill is actual usage at the tariff rates above, never a preset bundle. Meter accounts are live — the desk issues your identified key, every metered read is receipted, and the get_account tool shows your statement any time. The quote desk computes your exact basket first: your quote is your plan. Full contract on the API / MCP page.

Open API / MCP

Free

keyless reads · free self-issued key for the Answer Engine

  • 500 signal-feed reads per day; the Answer Engine rides a free self-issued key (25/day on your own meter — POST /api/keys, one call, no card)
  • Every MCP tool + the full REST surface, schema-stable
  • Explicit evidence status on every signal — receipted claims carry their sources
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Metered API

Usage-priced

identified API key · billed on actual usage at tariff rates

  • Your bill is the tariff, nothing preset: Watches $20/topic/month, Reads $0.25 each — one flat rate, no tiers
  • The month you're in is always refundable. Refundable in full, any time — we return the month you're in. You still get the coverage-acceptance report on every Watch — it grades the work, it just doesn't gate the bill
  • Identified key: 5,000 signal-feed reads/day (10× anonymous), schema-stable feeds, named support
  • Meter accounts are live: the desk issues your identified key, every metered Read is receipted, and get_account (MCP) shows your live statement. get_quote prices your exact basket first — your quote is your plan

For enterprises

Every price on this page is founding-customer pricing: early customers lock these rates; standard pricing will be higher as the service proves out. We’d rather grow with people who joined early than reprice them.

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Private Desk Pilot

$5,000

one-time · 30 days · ends with a written acceptance report

  • Give us up to 10 concerns your team cannot afford to stop watching
  • We baseline every name and stand up a private desk against them
  • Daily briefings + full API and MCP access for the evaluation
  • Acceptance metrics in the contract: relevance, citation completeness, alert timeliness
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Private Desk

$2,000/mo

annual commitment · or $2,400/mo month-to-month, cancel anytime

  • Your 10 concerns, watched continuously — plus the whole public wire
  • Daily private briefings, coverage steering, private topic requests
  • Full API + MCP access for your team's own tools and agents
  • Priced like software, not headcount — commit annually and keep the founding rate
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How the pilot works

The pilot is $5,000 once, for 30 days, and it buys a real deliverable: a working private desk against your concerns, and at the end a written acceptance report against the metrics in the agreement — relevance, citation completeness, alert timeliness. Continue if the numbers earn it: $2,000/moannual commitment · or $2,400/mo month-to-month, cancel anytime. If you stop after the pilot, you owe nothing further — and you keep the report.

The pilot itself: send us up to ten concerns — entities, programs, exposures, questions. Within days you have a private desk: every name baselined, watched continuously, briefed daily, callable from your own tools and agents. Thirty days later you judge us on the acceptance metrics written into the agreement.

What we commit to

  • The wire, desks, and APIs run on globally distributed edge infrastructure; the intelligence refreshes on a published daily cadence with intraday updates.
  • Our forecast engine is graded against reality in public — the calibration page is the referee, not our marketing. Grading lineage for individual Answer Engine reads is being added and labeled as it lands.
  • Support and onboarding by email with a one-business-day response target while we are in founding-customer phase.
  • The month you're in is always refundable. If the desk isn't earning its place, say so and we refund the month you're in, in full — no forms, no retention call, no reason required. Coverage stops when you say stop, and we never bill a month forward that you didn't want. It covers every plan and metered usage alike, and the Pilot is refundable in full for its whole 30 days.

We are in founding-customer phase and say so plainly: no invented logos, no purchased testimonials. What we have instead is a calibration scorecard you can audit before you spend a dollar. Try it first: ask the Answer Engine or read today’s desks — no account needed.

Not sure what fits? Ask the Closing Desk — plain answers about plans, prices, and fit, with your custom basket priced in-conversation. It will tell you honestly if we’re not the right tool.

Informational only — not financial, legal, or investment advice. Sales are made by Evolution Accelerator Inc. (d/b/a Evolution Labs); terms provided at checkout. Questions: email the desk (lead [at] evfm.co).