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Non-public pricing is something that really grinds my gears...


Because it's Enterprise pricing. We price based on your company. If your logo is big enough, we'll give you cost price because we'll use you as a marketing tool. If you're a government client, we'll give it to you cheap enough to get a foothold in your organisation, then pull in massive deals over years and take away discounts once it's too hard to get rid of us. If you're some random company, you get sticker price - but we can't publish that because most of our revenue comes from large Enterprise who all get custom, MNDA-protected pricing.


> If you're a government client, we'll give it to you cheap enough to get a foothold in your organisation, then pull in massive deals over years and take away discounts once it's too hard to get rid of us.

This concerns me as a non-government agency. I hope vendor lock-in isn’t your business strategy.


Just making it clear for others as I had to double check.

The one you're replying to isn't op and is just taking a jab at enterprise pricing.


The goal here is definitely not a lock-in strategy. Our lack of clear pricing is simply the nature of being a brand new company who hasn't yet had sufficient time to work with customers to solidify the right price point. As we iron out our business model we'll absolutely make pricing more transparent on our site.


It's a big red flag for me too, I usually nope right out.




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