We release invites daily and auction them off. Highest bidders get in, and everyone in the batch pays the same clearing price. Mechanism below; it's three sentences.
Every day we release a batch of invites. How many depends on how many people bid the day before. You bid what access is worth to you per month. When the auction clears, the top bidders win, and every winner pays the same price: the first losing bid. Not your bid. The clearing price.
So the honest strategy is also the smart one: bid what it's actually worth to you. You'll never pay more than your bid, and you'll usually pay less. If you really want in, bid high; someone else is sure to bid lower. (Right?)
Auction Facts
Worked example, one batch
Uniform price auction. Bidding your true value is the mathematically correct move.
Miss it, or lose it, and there's tomorrow. Bids don't roll over: no charge, no rollover, no consolation prize. Come back and bid like you mean it. Batch sizes move with demand, clearing prices move with the crowd, and reading the room is part of the sport.
Your card is saved when you bid and charged only if you win. Lose, and nothing is charged. There is never a hold on your card.
Bids don't roll over. Each day's auction is its own game.
Auctions clear daily at 12:00 noon Pacific. Winners and losers each get one email.
Bids are sealed. Nobody sees your number, including other bidders.
Your clearing price is locked for your first 12 months. After that your price may change; you'll get 30 days' notice, and you can cancel before any change takes effect. Month to month, cancel anytime, no refunds on the month you're in.
Floor is $1. Even Stripe charges us a per-transaction fee. Have some respect.
Distrosauce is BYOK: you bring your own model keys and your own sending tools (Instantly, HeyReach). We don't mark up tokens and we don't resell your stack back to you. You probably have those tools already; if not, they're a signup away. Your bid buys the runtime: the research, the personas, the theses, the writing, the harness. The stuff you can't get by signing up for anything.
Because 'talk to sales' is a price obfuscation ritual and free tiers attract people who cost more than they pay. The auction is honest: the market sets the price and everyone in a batch pays the same. The mechanism is three sentences long and doubles as the entrance exam. If you read it once and knew your number, you're the customer. If you're drafting an email to ask how it works, the tool assumes more of you than that.
What it's worth to you. That's not a dodge; in a uniform price auction, bidding your true value is the mathematically correct move. You pay the clearing price either way.
Nothing is charged, nothing rolls over, and tomorrow there's another auction. Recalibrate and come back.
A workspace, a short setup checklist, and the runtime. You'll connect your own model keys and senders during setup. Cancel anytime; you pay for the month you're in and nothing after.