Pricing — Free Forever, €1 to Try, €7 to Test, €9.97 to Subscribe, €497 for Funds

Pricing has ten tiers. The Signal Digest is free forever — a weekly email with five ranked startups. The Book is €0.99 one-time (or free PDF/EPUB) for the 104-page operational field manual on the seven public-data signals that precede Series A rounds. The Tweet Teardown is €1 one-time and delivers a tweet-length (≤280 char) momentum teardown of one startup you name, hand-written by the founder, within 24 hours. The First Look Pass is €7 one-time and delivers a full sector deep dive within 24 hours. The Dashboard Beta is €9.97 per month at founding-member pricing (going to €49 per month permanently) and ranks 140 startups across 20 sectors with weekly refresh. The Insider Circle is €97 per month at founding-member pricing (going to €197 per month) and adds a private Telegram group, custom watchlists, and JSON / CSV API access. The Sharp Tier is €497 per month or €4,970 per year for active funds and syndicates — quarterly portfolio review brief, custom thesis-aligned watchlist co-built with the fund, white-labeled API endpoint at /api/v1/sharp/<your-fund>, methodology source code access, application-gated and capped at 8 funds in 2026. The Custom Sector Sweep is €1,997 one-time for a written report on one sector of your choice. The Methodology Partnership is €14,997 per year (founding rate, going to €29,997 per year for funds joining 2027+) and runs a custom regression on the fund's anonymized portfolio outcomes, ships a bespoke 50-org watchlist with monthly rebuild, runs a white-labeled fund subdomain at signal.yourfund.com, and includes a quarterly synthetic founder talk and async-only methodology Q&A — capped at 5 funds in 2026. The Vault is €49,997 per year (founding rate, going to €99,997 per year for funds joining 2027+) and adds co-development access to the panel-construction pipeline, pre-publication SSRN preview six months early, 72-hour signal head-start over the public Dashboard, an annual async methodology summit, methodology source repo on a fund-only fork license, and Signal-of-the-Quarter co-investment alerts — capped at 2 funds in 2026. The Methodology Partnership and Vault are async-only and anonymity-preserving — no live calls, no in-person attendance. The free MCP server for Claude / Cursor / Windsurf is bundled with every tier including the free one and will never be gated.

The psychological gap between Free and €7 is larger than the gap between €7 and €97. The €1 Tweet Teardown is a deliberate buyer-threshold breaker — the smallest viable charge that converts a free reader into a paying customer. Once a card has been used at any price, the next purchase is no longer a first purchase. The €1 is credited toward the €7 First Look Pass if upgraded within 7 days, so the tier acts as a frictionless on-ramp rather than a separate purchase decision. The deliverable itself is genuinely useful — three sentences, one number, one human read on a startup the buyer already has a name for — but the tier exists primarily to break the €0-to-paid threshold.

Yes — the Signal Digest is free forever. One email per week, five startups ranked by GitHub engineering acceleration, signal type per startup, direct GitHub links, and a sector tag. The free MCP server (five tools, no auth) is bundled with the free tier and works in Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, and any MCP-compatible client. Both will remain free permanently — they are the distribution magnet for the paid tiers, not a trial.

The Tweet Teardown at €1 one-time is the cheapest paid product. It delivers a tweet-length (≤280 character) GitHub-momentum teardown of one startup you name — signal classification, 14-day acceleration delta, and the human-written kicker insight — emailed within 24 hours on weekdays. The €1 is credited toward the €7 First Look Pass if you upgrade within 7 days, so the rung functions as a near-zero-friction on-ramp into the paid ladder. The next step up is the €7 First Look Pass, which delivers a full sector deep dive (PDF + CSV) on whichever sector you pick. If you upgrade Tweet Teardown → First Look → Dashboard, every credit chains forward.

Founding-member pricing is the discounted launch rate on Dashboard Beta (€9.97 per month versus the €49 per month list price) and Insider Circle (€97 per month versus the €197 per month list price). Founding-member rates lock in for the lifetime of the subscription as long as the subscription stays active. Once we exit beta, list prices apply to new sign-ups; founding members keep their original rate. There is no minimum commitment — month-to-month, cancel anytime.

Every paid tier (Dashboard, Insider, and Sector Sweep) ships with a 30-day guarantee. If, in your first 30 days, the signal doesn't surface a startup that you find genuinely interesting — defined as one you would have wanted to know about earlier — reply to any email with the word REFUND and the full payment is refunded, no questions asked. The guarantee exists because the signal either works or it doesn't; charging for an output you don't find useful is bad business.

Dashboard is a live ranking across 20 sectors, refreshed weekly, that you keep open during deal-flow review. Sector Sweep is a one-time written report on a single sector you pick — every venture-backed startup in that sector ranked over the past four quarters, with diligence prompts on the top ten and three early-stage targets not yet on Crunchbase. Sweep is for funds who want a deeper, narrative-led analysis on a defined thesis without committing to a recurring subscription. Many funds use both: Dashboard for ongoing review, Sweep for thesis-anchored deep dives.

Yes. Both Dashboard and Insider Circle are month-to-month subscriptions managed through Stripe. There is no minimum term, no cancellation fee, and no win-back call. Cancel from your Stripe customer portal or by replying to any email; the cancellation is honored immediately and prorated against the current billing period.

Basic JSON endpoints (signals.json, weekly summary, methodology) are free with reasonable rate limits suitable for individual investors and small funds. Higher-volume API access — JSON endpoints, bulk CSV pulls, and webhook delivery on threshold triggers — is included with Insider Circle (€97 per month). No enterprise contract required. The MCP server is also fully usable as a programmatic interface from Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible client.

The MCP (Model Context Protocol) server exposes five read-only tools — get_trending_startups, search_startups_by_sector, get_startup_signal, get_signals_summary, and get_methodology — to any MCP-compatible AI client (Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, Mistral Le Chat, ChatGPT GPT, custom agents). It is published on npm as @gitdealflow/mcp-signal and runs as a Streamable HTTP endpoint at signals.gitdealflow.com/api/mcp/rpc. It is free and will never be gated — it is the distribution magnet that brings technical early adopters into the funnel, the same way a free Chrome extension or API trial does in classic technical-tool GTM.

Yes — the Sharp Tier at €497 per month (or €4,970 per year, saves two months) is the dedicated tier for active funds and syndicates. It includes quarterly portfolio review calls, custom thesis-aligned watchlist co-build, white-labeled API endpoint at /api/v1/sharp/<your-fund>, direct methodology source code access, same-day signal questions, and data-room exports formatted for LP updates. Sharp Tier is application-gated and capped at 8 funds in 2026 — applications reviewed within 48 hours. The Sector Sweep at €1,997 one-time is a lower-commitment on-ramp; many funds commission a Sweep first and upgrade to Sharp after delivery if the signal quality matches their thesis. Funds with deeper custom requirements (white-label fund-branded UI, dedicated Slack channel, on-call for fundraise diligence) should email signal at gitdealflow dot com for a scoped proposal.

The methodology is published openly on SSRN (abstract id 6606558) and mirrored on Zenodo with a DOI. The dataset is auto-indexed by OpenAlex and DataCite. Investors evaluating the signal can audit the full methodology and replicate the metrics from the same public GitHub data described in the paper. Open methodology is the cheapest way to earn investor trust — it removes the black-box objection up front.