How to package AI services into three tiers
Three tiers beat one price, if the math works at each step. Here is how to package a chatbot, a mid tier, and a voice tier, what you keep on each, and who should never see a tier list.
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Follow via RSSThree tiers beat one price, if the math works at each step. Here is how to package a chatbot, a mid tier, and a voice tier, what you keep on each, and who should never see a tier list.
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Nothing gets deleted. Your published demo unpublishes, every draft stays, and usage drops to zero until you resubscribe. Here is the full answer, including the part about client builds that nobody thinks to ask on the pricing call.
Three different products get sold as an AI agency in a box: a course, a reseller license, and a wholesale fulfillment stack. Only one of them answers who builds the client's system after you close. Here is what each costs, with vendor pricing, and who should skip all of it.
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Hiring a developer looks like the serious choice and is usually the expensive way to learn what you should have built. Here is the arithmetic, using published developer wages and the telephony and model prices that arrive either way.