Guided SignupPricing and guided signup are public while full self-serve still stays staged.
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Guided Signup

Start the founder workspace with clear pricing, guided signup, and a visible next step.

Founders can evaluate the lane, stage the workspace, and know what happens next before self-serve and checkout are fully opened.

Pricing Posture

Choose the Growth lane now and move into billing when the workspace is ready.

Visitors can compare the Growth lane here, then move into signup, waitlist, or founder re-entry from the same commercial surface.

What founders should expect

Checkout stays staged until billing credentials, price mapping, and webhook handling are fully connected.

This page exists to make the commercial lane legible before automation opens. Founders should be able to compare the Growth plan, understand the current billing posture, and know exactly how pricing reconnects to the workspace.

Step 1

Understand the lane

See what the product does, who it fits, and what is live right now.

Step 2

current

Choose the path

Pick pricing, signup, or reviewed intake without losing the same founder context.

Step 3

Open the workspace

Use the active identity path without duplicating the workspace or resetting the journey.

Step 4

Run with signal

Operate research, validation, launch, and billing from one accountable surface.

Public plan

Growth

Keep one founder lane visible so pricing, signup, and billing posture are easy to read.

Monthly anchor

$99

Packaging should be clear before checkout becomes the next step.

Checkout posture

Controlled

Checkout stays staged until billing credentials, price mapping, and webhook handling are fully connected.

Workspace path

Public evaluation

The same pricing route should support discovery, return-state messaging, and eventual upgrade.

Launch readiness

Billing posture stays attached to launch readiness.

Pricing stays connected to launch truth. Founders can compare the lane now, while the status board keeps checkout, activation, redirect, and sender-domain readiness explicit.

Public pricing

live

Founders can evaluate the current plan and understand the commercial lane clearly.

Public signup

live

Founders can stage the workspace from the current public path.

Self-serve activation

staged

Self-serve activation stays staged while the identity and provisioning path are still being finalized.

Checkout

staged

Checkout stays staged until billing credentials, price mapping, and webhook handling are fully connected.

Permanent HTTPS redirect

review

Before calling launch complete, confirm the public edge permanently redirects HTTP traffic to HTTPS.

SPF + DKIM + DMARC + CAA

review

Before full launch, confirm sender-domain email authentication and certificate-authority records.

Pricing

Choose the Growth lane without losing sight of the workspace path.

This surface is the commercial layer for the founder workspace. Compare the lane, see the current posture, and move into checkout only when both workspace eligibility and runtime readiness allow it.

Public plan

checkout controlled

Growth

Built for one accountable founder workspace with research, validation, specing, launch control, and connected ops in the same product.

Monthly

$99

Start lean

Annual

$990

Commit with intent

Single-founder workspace
Operator-reviewed signup and invite conversion
Research, spec, launch gate, and portfolio views

Current State

Visitors can compare the operating lane before moving into signup or founder recovery.

Pricing stays tied to the workspace lifecycle: discover the lane publicly, activate the workspace, then enter billing when workspace eligibility and runtime readiness are both true.

Billing Path

Billing still follows workspace and runtime readiness.

Checkout stays staged until billing credentials, price mapping, and webhook handling are fully connected.

Compare the public plan and choose the lane that matches the founder workspace.
Create or reopen the workspace from signup or founder login.
Start checkout only when the workspace status and launch readiness both allow it.

Commercial posture

What founders can do now versus what the launch target unlocks later.

The product should make commercialization legible before it automates it. This comparison keeps the current rollout posture and the target posture in the same view.

Commercial entry

Today

Pricing and signup are public.

When fully open

Founders can understand the lane before they ever create or reopen a workspace.

Activation path

Today

Signup is public, while the final activation step still stays staged.

When fully open

Workspace creation, activation, and recovery stay on one coherent route contract.

Billing path

Today

Growth is public for comparison, while checkout stays controlled until the billing path is fully ready.

When fully open

Checkout becomes visible only when runtime readiness and workspace eligibility are both true.

Founder recovery

Today

Invite-token recovery remains the supported founder return path in this environment.

When fully open

Recovery never disappears; the faster path can improve without removing the safe fallback.

Operational scope

Today

Research, validation, launch control, billing posture, and connected ops stay in one founder workspace.

When fully open

Commercial polish increases trust without widening the product into a generic startup dashboard.

FAQ

Pricing questions that should be answered before checkout opens.

The pricing surface should reduce ambiguity, not force founders to infer billing posture from missing buttons.

Why show pricing before checkout is live?

Public pricing lets founders evaluate the lane and understand the commercial model early, while checkout stays staged until the billing path is fully ready.

Does pricing belong to a marketing page or the workspace?

Both. Pricing is public for evaluation, but billing only becomes actionable when the workspace state and launch posture both allow it.

What does the public plan include today?

The current public lane centers one founder workspace with research, validation, specing, launch control, and connected ops in the same product.

What changes when checkout is enabled later?

The route contract does not change. Eligible founders simply gain the ability to move from pricing into workspace-aware checkout without a new funnel.

Commercial fit

Compare the lane now, then move only as far as the current launch state allows.

Commercial clarity should arrive before commercial automation. Pricing stays public even while checkout remains deliberately staged.

Pricing | MicroSaaS Factory