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Product Launch · Jeff Walker PLF
Every other deal-flow tool charges per seat. Agents don’t have seats — they have call volumes. Agent Credits prices the engine the way agents actually consume it.
Cart closes Wed, 20 May 2026 23:59 UTC
Abstract
Agent Credits is a per-call pricing tier for the GitDealFlow signal engine, designed for autonomous agents that programmatically diligence GitHub orgs. €0.19 per deep-signal call, sold in packs of 100. Misses are free. Credits never expire. The six existing free MCP tools stay free forever — Agent Credits applies only to the new get_deep_signal tool and POST /api/agent/deep-signal.
Stage 1 · Sideways Story · The Opportunity
Why agent-shaped pricing is the next data-product unlock
90-second synthetic walkthrough — the opportunity in one chart.
Spend two minutes inside Claude or Cursor with an MCP server attached and the future is obvious. Agents don’t scroll dashboards. They issue tool calls. They scrape, score, decide, and ship a memo before you finish your coffee.
Every signal-data product on the market still bills humans by the seat — €99/month, $299/month, €497/month — assuming a partner clicks through pages. None of them have a credit-meter that an agent can spend against.
The result is the absurd status quo: an AI scout running on a developer-investor’s laptop pays €97 for a full Insider Circle subscription it consumes in 11 minutes of Sunday-morning research, then idles for six days. The data product has no way to charge proportionally, so it overcharges or undercharges depending on the day.
Stage 2 · Ownership Experience · See It Working
What the integration looks like inside Claude Desktop
3-minute silent screen capture — install, key, first call, ledger update.
Agent Credits is a single, dead-simple integer balance attached to your API key. Every successful deep-signal call decrements your balance by 1. Misses (no matching org) decrement by zero. Credits never expire. You buy more when you run out.
The first 100 calls cost €19 — €0.19 per call — and that price is locked forever for buyers in this launch window. After May 20, the standard rate becomes €29 per 100 (€0.29 per call) for new buyers. Existing buyers keep €0.19 indefinitely.
Integration is two lines. With Claude Desktop or Cursor: install @gitdealflow/mcp-signal, set GITDEALFLOW_API_KEY, the new get_deep_signal tool appears next to the six free tools you already have. With raw HTTP: POST /api/agent/deep-signal with a GitHub org slug, get back the full signal panel JSON. Every retry with the same X-Request-Id is idempotent — no double-billing.
Stage 3 · Internal Struggle · The Doubts
The two fixes that didn’t work — and why credits did
60-second short on the failure modes of seat-tier pricing for agents.
I tried two fixes before I built this one. First, I tried higher Insider tiers (€97 → €197 → €497). The math broke immediately: a single agent scaling across 4,200 orgs ends up running ~30,000 deep-signal calls in a weekend. €497/month doesn’t cover the GitHub-API cost layer underneath, let alone the regression compute.
Second, I tried a flat ‘fair-use ceiling.’ That’s the SaaS-pricing equivalent of duct tape. The honest agents stay polite at 200 calls/month. The dishonest ones blow through 30,000 the first week and the ceiling becomes the entire ceiling — at which point the only honest move is to cut their API access, which is a worse experience than just charging them per call up front.
What this product needed was the simplest economic model in software: a credit. Pay for the call, get the result, walk away. No subscription, no overage drama, no per-seat fiction. The fix had to be priced by what an agent actually does, not by what a human looks like to a billing system.
Stage 4 · Big Idea · Open Cart
Two ways to start. The free 5-call sample at /agents/credits/sample needs no card and no commitment — drop your email, get an API key, run five real deep-signal calls inside Claude or Cursor. If the integration fits, the €19 pack upgrades the same key.
The €19 launch price closes May 20 at midnight UTC. After that, new buyers pay €29 for the same 100-call pack. Buyers from this window keep €0.19/call forever — even on future top-ups.
If your sourcing is already routed through an agent, this is the cheapest data layer you’re going to find for a deep-signal call. If your sourcing isn’t agent-routed yet, the free Sunday digest stays free regardless of whether you buy this. The Agent Credits launch doesn’t change anything about the human-facing tiers.
The Stack
100 deep-signal API calls (no expiry)
€19 — the launch price (€0.19 per call)
get_deep_signal MCP tool — Claude/Cursor/any-MCP-host
€0 — bundled
POST /api/agent/deep-signal HTTP endpoint
€0 — bundled
Idempotency via X-Request-Id (no double-billing on retry)
€0 — bundled
Misses are free (only billed for matched orgs)
€0 — bundled
Live ledger at /agents/credits showing remaining balance
€0 — bundled
Free 5-call sample (no card) for testing the integration
€19 of value — bundled
Standalone value: €38 of standalone value
Launch price: €19 for 100 calls (locked at €0.19/call forever)
After window: €29 for 100 calls (€0.29/call) after May 20
One call returns the full signal panel for one GitHub org — commit-velocity acceleration, contributor-diversity Gini, dependents-graph external count, README-freshness diff size, new-repo-creation rate, issue-to-PR ratio, and the composite score. Calls against orgs not in our universe (4,200+ venture-backed startup orgs) are misses and don’t decrement your balance.
Soft rate limit at 60 calls/minute per API key. Above that, you queue (no errors, just wait). If you have a sustained-throughput use case above that ceiling, email signal@gitdealflow.com and we’ll provision a higher key for the same per-call price.
No. The balance lives until you spend it. Buy 100 calls today, use them over five years, no penalty.
Two reasons. One — locking €0.19/call forever for launch buyers gives early agents a permanent margin advantage as the standard rate climbs. Two — a launch window forces me to ship the integration tooling (the MCP tool, the idempotency layer, the live balance UI) on a deadline rather than a someday. The window is real, the discount is real, and after May 20 the standard rate is €0.29/call for new buyers.
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