Founding rates are locked for 24 months — Professional $18, Business $29, Enterprise $40 per user per month. Not a launch discount that quietly resets at renewal. A rate that holds for two years while list pricing moves.
We're keeping it to 10 because a founding customer isn't a discount code. It's a working relationship, and there's a limit to how many of those we can do properly at once.
Annual commitment required. Start on the free tier if you'd rather see it working before you commit.
2 claimed · 8 available
Counted across all paid tiers. Once 10 are taken the programme closes and founding rates are no longer offered.
No percentage games. Here's list, here's founding, here's what the lock is worth over the two years.
| Tier | List (annual) | Founding rate | Locked saving, per user |
|---|---|---|---|
| Professional2-seat minimum | $20 | $18 | $48 |
| Business5-seat minimum | $32 | $29 | $72 |
| Enterprise25-seat minimum | $44 | $40 | $96 |
A 12-seat Business team locks in $864; a 25-seat Enterprise programme locks in $2,400. All figures per user per month, billed annually. The Free tier isn't eligible — founding pricing applies to paid tiers only.
A few dollars a seat isn't why founding customers sign. Our list pricing has already moved once this year.
Anyone holding a founding rate didn't move with it, and won't for 24 months. That's the actual asset: a fixed line in your cost model on a product that's getting more expensive as it matures.
10 slots only works if it's a trade. Here's ours.
Beyond the rate itself.
None of it is onerous, but it isn't nothing.
We'd rather tell you now than three weeks into onboarding.
Everything that would otherwise be a footnote.
Straight answers about the programme, the rates, and what happens when the lock ends.
2 of the 10 slots have been claimed, so 8 remain. Slots are counted across all paid tiers — Professional, Business and Enterprise — and once all 10 are taken the programme closes and founding rates are no longer offered.
It's a limited programme for the first 10 paying customers. You lock a reduced per-seat rate for 24 months — Professional $18, Business $29, Enterprise $40 per user per month — and in exchange we ask that you use BriefSpec on a real engagement and tell us candidly what's wrong with it. It requires an annual commitment.
Against current list pricing, $48 per user on Professional, $72 per user on Business, $96 per user on Enterprise across the full 24 months. A 12-seat Business team saves $864; a 25-seat Enterprise programme saves $2400. The larger value is the lock rather than the margin — list pricing has already risen once this year and founding rates don't move with it.
You move to whatever list pricing is at that point, on the tier you're already on. There's no automatic escalation clause and no penalty for leaving — you renew at the going rate or you don't.
Yes, and it's a sensible way to do it — run a real cycle first, then decide. The Free tier itself isn't eligible for founding pricing, so the slot is only reserved once you move to a paid annual plan. Slots are claimed in order, so evaluating for months carries the risk that they're gone.
It covers seat fees. It doesn't cover onboarding fees, custom integrations, premium support tiers, or minimum-seat overrides. Seat minimums are unchanged — Professional 2, Business 5, Enterprise 25.
Lock your rate for two years, and help shape what gets built while there are still few enough customers for that to mean something.
Annual commitment required · Founding pricing applies to seat fees only