Pricing
Your first brief is complimentary.
It covers one issue you choose, subject to a scope review: Byline first checks that it can cover the issue well, and when a brief could be ready. Your request does not start recurring delivery. Further briefs come only through a paid program that you and Byline agree before it starts.
Continued service is one of two paid engagements, and both prices are on this page. The Constitution Sprint is $3,500 and is credited in full against the Program, so starting is one decision and not two. The Program is $3,000 a month, billed monthly on a twelve-month term. You pay per program, not per user.
Two paid engagements
One sets the desk up. The other runs it every weekday.
The Constitution Sprint is ten business days of setting up: what you keep is your Constitution and a registered list of your sources. The Program is the delivery: a brief every weekday morning, with your own named approver on any item that recommends preparing or responding. The Sprint fee is credited in full against the Program if you continue, so $3,500 is what it costs to start and not a charge on top of the month.
Plan 01 · Constitution Sprint
Constitution Sprint: $3,500. Ten business days.
Byline works with you to write down your priorities and set up your sources. You see the result in example briefs built from real events in your own week.
What you receive
- Your Intelligence Constitution: the written priorities every brief is judged against, as a versioned document you own
- A registered list of your sources, stating what may be stored from each and for how long
- A written statement of what those sources do not cover
- The $3,500 credited in full against the Program if you continue, so the Sprint is the entry and not an addition to it
Plan 02 · The Program
The Program: $3,000 a month, on a twelve-month term.
A brief every weekday morning, and your own named approver decides any item that recommends preparing or responding, or is disputed.
What you receive
- Up to five recommendations each morning. When there are none, the brief says so.
- Every factual sentence linked to a named source and when it was published
- A coverage note on every brief, stating what was not read
- Every brief shows its evidence-review status. An Evidence Attestation records a completed review of the cited evidence and coverage. If a brief is delivered without that attestation, it says so clearly
- Decisions requiring your approval shown separately
- Your Constitution kept up to date, with every change recorded
- Your program’s data, exported on request at any time
- Billed monthly on a twelve-month term, and the fee does not change when no new action is recommended. You pay for judgment, not volume.
- The first programs are at the founding rate
Starting
One decision at the entry: $3,500, credited in full against the Program.
Both figures are on this page, so your first conversation is about your issue and not about the price. It starts from the same request as your first brief: ask the question in the issue field, and Byline answers it before anything else starts.
What happens next. Byline first checks that it can cover the issue well, and when a brief could be ready, then writes to you at the work email you give. Your first brief is complimentary, and your request does not start recurring delivery.
Named here, not priced
Open Desk and Watch have nobody’s name on them.
Two more tiers exist by name. Open Desk is the public one, the same for every reader: confirmed facts and the deadlines attached to them, and never a recommendation. Watch is a brief with no reviewer: the facts and the deadlines, and no name on them.
What Watch says about itself. This brief has not been reviewed by a person. Nobody’s name is on it. If you need a name on it, that is a Program.
Neither carries a price on this page, and neither carries a date. Watch opens when the attestation work ships. Tell us where to write and we will say when.
Where Byline stands today
You work directly with the person who built it. The Trust page sets out what exists today and what does not.
Each Program covers one issue area and has one named decision owner. Byline does not start a second program until the first has run for a week without problems. That is how Byline works in practice; the software does not enforce it.
