DRIFTLESS PRICING

Start free. Buy more responsibility only when you need it.

Driftless is Density6's founding Vertical Intelligence Product. It is built around a commercial rule that is simple for the customer even when the machinery underneath it is not: the thing you pay for should match the thing you are actually buying.

We do not force every customer through one synthetic unit. We do not make tokens, prompts, model calls, agents, seats, retries, or hidden credits the universal definition of value. Compute is a production input. It matters to our economics. It is not automatically the commercial object we sell to you.

The public front door has four operating levels: Free, Operator, Business, and Portfolio / Agency. Those four levels are intentionally easy to understand. A person starting a business should not need to study enterprise contracting to know what the platform costs. An organization asking Density6 to accept materially greater authority, assurance, deployment complexity, operating responsibility, or outcome exposure needs a different commercial object. That deeper system is shown on this page too.

Free → $99 Operator → $399 Business → $1,499 Portfolio / Agency.

That is the self-service front door. It is not the ceiling of what Driftless can operate.


The Four Public Operating Levels

Free Gate — $0 forever

The Free Gate is permanent. No credit card is required merely to enter Driftless, connect reality, declare an objective, understand the system, begin legitimate governed work, and discover value.

Free does not mean unlimited third-party compute, unlimited communication expense, unlimited autonomous execution, unlimited storage, unlimited concurrency, unlimited assurance, or unlimited external economic exposure. Those things consume scarce resources. The rule is permission is not the same thing as capacity. We do not manufacture artificial incapability to force a conversion, and we do not pretend scarcity is free when it is not.

Start with the Free Gate

Operator — $99/month or $990/year

Operator is for the owner or operator who needs materially more operating capacity while remaining inside a self-service relationship. The platform does not become a different product because you pay. You are buying more room to operate: more useful throughput, more sustained work, and a larger operating envelope under the same governing architecture.

Choose Operator Monthly
Choose Operator Annual

Business — $399/month or $3,990/year

Business is for an organization that needs a larger operating envelope across real business work. It is a stronger recurring relationship with Driftless, not a pile of hidden AI tolls. Capability remains governed by authority. Capacity, execution, external cost, support, and other scarce resources are governed by the commercial contract and Fair Throughput & Utilization™.

Run and grow your business. Find customers. Win funding. Market your offers. Automate operations. Recover revenue.

Everything in Operator, plus:

Choose Business Monthly
Choose Business Annual

Portfolio / Agency — $1,499/month or $14,990/year

Portfolio / Agency is for operators managing a materially broader commercial surface: multiple brands, clients, workspaces, portfolios, or comparable operating responsibility. It buys a larger governed operating envelope. It does not create a universal tax on seats or on money moving through your customers' businesses.

Build, operate, and grow multiple businesses. One headquarters for clients, campaigns, funding, teams, intelligence, automation, and your own branded agency.

Everything in Business, plus:

Choose Portfolio / Agency Monthly
Choose Portfolio / Agency Annual


A $497 Bounded Way to Put the Economics to Work

Verified Revenue Recovery Launch — $497 one time

The Verified Revenue Recovery Launch is a bounded intervention with a fixed commercial price. It exists for a customer who does not need a broad operating relationship to begin. The point is to take a defined revenue-recovery problem, establish what result is being pursued, operate inside the agreed boundary, and verify what actually became true.

Start the $497 Verified Revenue Recovery Launch


What Paying Actually Buys

Driftless can sell several different things because customers can ask it to accept several different kinds of responsibility. A subscription can buy an included operating envelope. A fixed result contract can buy one completed result. A mission contract can buy operation of a bounded mission. A managed operating lane can place a recurring portion of real work under Driftless. A sovereignty installation can change where and how the system operates. A production proof can create a bounded, evidence-heavy way to establish whether a larger deployment deserves to exist. An enterprise relationship can place sustained operating responsibility under a governed contract. A verified outcome contract can make some compensation mature only after attributable real-world value is established.

The commercial object follows reality. Driftless does not force all of those relationships into one fake meter.

The deeper commercial system becomes relevant as Driftless accepts more scope, throughput, authority, autonomy, responsibility, risk, assurance, deployment complexity, capital burden, support burden, verification burden, economic exposure, or outcome responsibility.


Fair Throughput & Utilization™ Is Resource Governance, Not a Currency

FTU means Fair Throughput & Utilization™. It governs scarce production resources. It helps decide whether an execution may happen, how much scarce resource it may consume, which production path should be used, what economic risk Density6 may accept, how much retry or repair effort is admissible, and whether work should route down, queue, defer, ask, pause, or stop.

FTU does not define what the customer bought. The commercial contract does that.

There is no universal Density6 token, coin, work credit, SIGNAL balance, mission coin, or hidden exchange rate between compute and customer value. A customer may buy a subscription, capacity, a fixed result, native usage, a mission, an intervention, a deployment, operating responsibility, assurance, an outcome, professional engineering, or another economically honest commercial object. Different products do not need one universal billing unit merely because they are made by the same company.


The Five Commercial Planes

A customer charge should be explainable without confusing five different truths.

Commercial Contract defines what you bought.
Economic Authority defines what Density6 may spend or risk fulfilling it.
Execution records what actually happened and what resources were consumed.
Verification determines what state became true and what evidence supports it.
Commercial Settlement determines what became included, earned, partially earned, not earned, refunded, released, credited, passed through, disputed, or matured into an outcome fee.

Reality-Reconciled Learning sits above those planes and improves how Driftless produces value in the future. It does not get to rewrite settled historical economics because a later model learned something new.

This separation matters. A provider cost is not automatically a customer price. A retry is not automatically another purchase. A model call is not automatically value. A Stripe object is not authority to charge. An API returning 200 is not proof that the contracted result became true.


Internal Failure Does Not Become a Revenue Strategy

Driftless preserves the real economics of failed work. If Attempt 1 fails, Attempt 2 fails, repair occurs, and Attempt 3 succeeds, those attempts remain visible to Density6 as production truth. They inform cost, reliability, routing, verification, and Reality-Reconciled Learning.

They do not automatically become three customer purchases.

The customer may owe one subscription, one mission fee, one fixed result, one accepted professional service, one native-usage amount, or another amount defined by the contract. The contract defines the commercial event. Evidence determines whether it happened. Verification determines whether the settlement condition matured.

That incentive matters. Better routing, fewer retries, stronger deterministic systems, better tools, better recovery, and better verification can improve Density6 economics without increasing the customer's bill for internal waste.


Bring Your Own Model Key Without a Hidden Provider Tax

Where Driftless supports a bring-your-own-key path, Density6's canonical provider markup is 0%. You pay the model provider under your provider relationship. Driftless does not need to turn your third-party model spend into a secret platform tax.

BYOK does not create ambient authority. The credential still belongs inside the governed security, identity, policy, purpose, and execution path. Commercial transparency does not weaken the control plane.


We Do Not Need a Universal Seat Tax

Seats can matter operationally. Identity matters. Access reviews matter. Human users can create support and assurance burdens. None of that means every Density6 product must monetize by counting people.

A five-person company could delegate more autonomous operating responsibility to Driftless than a five-thousand-person organization using it lightly. Enterprise pricing therefore follows the actual responsibility being transferred: scope, throughput, authority, assurance, risk, deployment, support, capital burden, verification, scarcity, and attributable value. Customer size can affect those variables. It is not a substitute for them.


We Do Not Tax Customer Commerce Merely Because Money Moved

The default Density6 external-seller transaction tax is 0%. A customer selling through its own commerce relationship does not automatically owe Density6 a percentage merely because the platform participated in the workflow. Payment processing, marketplace, settlement, or other specialized commercial arrangements can have their own explicit contracts where justified. There is no hidden constitutional tax on customer commerce.


Explore the Full Density6 Commercial System

The four public operating levels are deliberately simple. The rest of this page is for customers whose problem is no longer "which subscription should I choose?" It is for customers asking Density6 to complete missing business infrastructure, operate a lane, break a governing constraint, install sovereignty, prove production capability, accept enterprise operating responsibility, assess a global mission, deploy a strategic lighthouse, operate a strategic production relationship, or participate in independently verified economic outcomes.

The amounts below are governed commercial positions. A displayed amount does not mean every click immediately charges a card. The CTA identifies the commercial position. The server-side commercial catalog determines what must happen next.

Revenue Constraint Scan

The Revenue Constraint Scan is a governed diagnostic mission. Access is determined by an applicable entitlement or other authorized commercial basis, mission authority, economic admissibility, and capacity. It is not a separate free checkout offer. Free Gate and Operator do not include it. Business access is limited by its plan allowance; Portfolio / Agency has no plan-level mission-count quota but remains subject to the same mission gates.

Business Completion

Business Completion is for a business that exists in pieces and needs missing operating capability completed into a coherent system. The scenario is selected here; contract formation and exact settlement follow the governed path for contract scenarios.

PositionCommercial amountSettlement pathAction
Foundation$2,500Contract scenarioSelect this position
Essential$5,000Contract scenarioSelect this position
Standard$10,000Contract scenarioSelect this position
Advanced$15,000Contract scenarioSelect this position
Comprehensive$25,000Contract scenarioSelect this position
Complex$50,000Contract scenarioSelect this position
Major$75,000Contract scenarioSelect this position
Institutional$100,000Contract scenarioSelect this position
Enterprise Completion$250,000Contract scenarioSelect this position
Major Enterprise Completion$500,000Contract scenarioSelect this position
Strategic Completion$1,000,000Contract scenarioSelect this position
Custom ContractAbove $1,000,000Custom contractSelect this position

Managed Operating Lane

A Managed Operating Lane is recurring responsibility for a bounded portion of real operation. The standard ladder runs from $500 to $15,000 per month.

PositionCommercial amountSettlement pathAction
Lane — Entry$500/monthContract scenarioSelect this position
Lane — Core$1,000/monthContract scenarioSelect this position
Lane — Emerging$2,500/monthContract scenarioSelect this position
Lane — Growth$5,000/monthContract scenarioSelect this position
Lane — Advanced$7,500/monthContract scenarioSelect this position
Lane — High Responsibility$10,000/monthContract scenarioSelect this position
Lane — Complex$12,500/monthContract scenarioSelect this position
Lane — Maximum Standard$15,000/monthContract scenarioSelect this position

Constraint Breakthrough Deployment

A Constraint Breakthrough Deployment concentrates work on the condition governing movement toward an objective. The standard one-time ladder runs from $2,500 to $75,000.

PositionCommercial amountSettlement pathAction
Breakthrough — Entry$2,500Contract scenarioSelect this position
Breakthrough — Essential$5,000Contract scenarioSelect this position
Breakthrough — Standard$7,500Contract scenarioSelect this position
Breakthrough — Advanced$10,000Contract scenarioSelect this position
Breakthrough — Complex$15,000Contract scenarioSelect this position
Breakthrough — Major$25,000Contract scenarioSelect this position
Breakthrough — High Complexity$35,000Contract scenarioSelect this position
Breakthrough — Enterprise$50,000Contract scenarioSelect this position
Breakthrough — Maximum Standard$75,000Contract scenarioSelect this position

Sovereignty Installation

Sovereignty changes deployment responsibility and control. Depending on the engagement, it can involve dedicated, customer-controlled, private, local, edge, disconnected, air-gapped, or other governed topology work. Architecture never substitutes for authorization.

PositionCommercial amountSettlement pathAction
Sovereignty — Foundation$30,000Contract scenarioSelect this position
Sovereignty — Dedicated$50,000Contract scenarioSelect this position
Sovereignty — Advanced$75,000Contract scenarioSelect this position
Sovereignty — Private Environment$100,000Contract scenarioSelect this position
Sovereignty — Complex Private$150,000Contract scenarioSelect this position
Sovereignty — Enterprise$250,000Contract scenarioSelect this position
Sovereignty — Major Enterprise$500,000Contract scenarioSelect this position
Sovereignty — Mission Critical$1,000,000Contract scenarioSelect this position
Sovereignty — Institutional$2,500,000Contract scenarioSelect this position
Sovereignty — Strategic$5,000,000Contract scenarioSelect this position
Sovereignty — Global$10,000,000Contract scenarioSelect this position
Custom SovereigntyAbove $10,000,000Custom contractSelect this position

Paid Bounded Production Proof

A Paid Bounded Production Proof is the disciplined entry point for larger consequential work. It exists to prove a bounded operating claim with real evidence before a customer expands authority or scope.

PositionCommercial amountSettlement pathAction
Production Proof — Minimum$50,000Contract scenarioSelect this position
Production Proof — Standard$75,000Contract scenarioSelect this position
Production Proof — Advanced$100,000Contract scenarioSelect this position
Production Proof — Complex$150,000Contract scenarioSelect this position
Production Proof — Enterprise$250,000Contract scenarioSelect this position
Production Proof — Major$500,000Contract scenarioSelect this position
Production Proof — Institutional$750,000Contract scenarioSelect this position
Production Proof — Strategic$1,000,000Contract scenarioSelect this position
Production Proof — Maximum Standard$1,500,000Contract scenarioSelect this position
Custom Production ProofAbove $1,500,000Custom contractSelect this position

Enterprise Production Relationship

An Enterprise Production Relationship prices sustained operating responsibility, not a decorative enterprise seat bundle. The relationship can include platform, Vertical Intelligence, mission scope, assurance, deployment, capacity, support, and other contractually defined responsibility.

PositionCommercial amountSettlement pathAction
Enterprise — Entry$100,000/yearContract scenarioSelect this position
Enterprise — Foundation$250,000/yearContract scenarioSelect this position
Enterprise — Core$500,000/yearContract scenarioSelect this position
Enterprise — Advanced$750,000/yearContract scenarioSelect this position
Enterprise — $1M$1,000,000/yearContract scenarioSelect this position
Enterprise — $2.5M$2,500,000/yearContract scenarioSelect this position
Enterprise — $5M$5,000,000/yearContract scenarioSelect this position
Enterprise — $7.5M$7,500,000/yearContract scenarioSelect this position
Enterprise — $10M$10,000,000/yearContract scenarioSelect this position
Enterprise — $15M$15,000,000/yearContract scenarioSelect this position
Enterprise — $20M$20,000,000/yearContract scenarioSelect this position
Custom Enterprise RelationshipAbove $20,000,000/yearCustom contractSelect this position

Global Operating Mission Assessment

A Global Operating Mission Assessment is for a mission whose scope, authority, deployment, federation, assurance, data, and operating consequences require formal assessment before a larger relationship is responsibly defined.

PositionCommercial amountSettlement pathAction
Global Assessment — Entry$250,000Contract scenarioSelect this position
Global Assessment — Standard$500,000Contract scenarioSelect this position
Global Assessment — Advanced$750,000Contract scenarioSelect this position
Global Assessment — Strategic$1,000,000Contract scenarioSelect this position
Custom Global AssessmentAbove $1,000,000Custom contractSelect this position

Strategic Lighthouse Deployment

A Strategic Lighthouse Deployment establishes a consequential bounded deployment intended to prove strategic operating capability under a real authority, evidence, security, and continuity boundary.

PositionCommercial amountSettlement pathAction
Lighthouse — Entry$1,000,000Contract scenarioSelect this position
Lighthouse — Advanced$1,500,000Contract scenarioSelect this position
Lighthouse — Major$2,500,000Contract scenarioSelect this position
Lighthouse — Institutional$3,500,000Contract scenarioSelect this position
Lighthouse — Maximum Standard$5,000,000Contract scenarioSelect this position
Custom LighthouseAbove $5,000,000Custom contractSelect this position

Strategic Production Relationship

A Strategic Production Relationship is a sustained relationship in which Density6 accepts major operating responsibility. These positions are not justified by customer prestige or company size alone; the responsibility, risk, assurance, deployment, capital burden, support, verification, and defensible value must support the contract.

PositionCommercial amountSettlement pathAction
Strategic Relationship — Entry$5,000,000/yearContract scenarioSelect this position
Strategic Relationship — $7.5M$7,500,000/yearContract scenarioSelect this position
Strategic Relationship — $10M$10,000,000/yearContract scenarioSelect this position
Strategic Relationship — $15M$15,000,000/yearContract scenarioSelect this position
Strategic Relationship — $20M$20,000,000/yearContract scenarioSelect this position
Strategic Relationship — $25M$25,000,000/yearContract scenarioSelect this position
Strategic Relationship — $35M$35,000,000/yearContract scenarioSelect this position
Strategic Relationship — $50M$50,000,000/yearContract scenarioSelect this position
Custom Strategic RelationshipAbove $50,000,000/yearCustom contractSelect this position

Verified Outcome Participation

Outcome participation is different from a fixed Stripe Price. The percentage belongs to the outcome contract. After attributable economic improvement is verified, Density6 computes the matured dollar settlement and only then sends the exact payable amount to the settlement rail.

PositionCommercial amountSettlement pathAction
Standard low participation5% of verified attributable economic improvementOutcome participationSelect this position
Default modeling / standard target7.5% of verified attributable economic improvementOutcome participationSelect this position
Standard upper participation10% of verified attributable economic improvementOutcome participationSelect this position
Ordinary approval ceiling15% of verified attributable economic improvementOutcome participationSelect this position
Exceptional participationAbove 15%, only with explicit executive approvalOutcome participationSelect this position

What Happens When You Click a Commercial Position

Every CTA on this page uses one canonical entry shape:

https://www.driftlessvip.com/checkout?offer=<CANONICAL_OFFER_KEY>

The dollar amount is not placed in the URL. The browser is not trusted to declare the product, cadence, price, billing type, authority, settlement mode, or contract requirement. The immutable offer identifier is resolved on the server against the versioned Density6 commercial catalog.

The catalog decides what the click means.

Free activation

For a free commercial object, Driftless authenticates or creates the workspace, establishes the free entitlement, and does not require Stripe merely to prove that a $0 relationship exists.

Self-service fixed

For a fixed self-service position, Driftless authenticates the customer, resolves the canonical Stripe Price from the server-side commercial catalog, creates Checkout, receives the webhook or readback, and establishes the entitlement only after the payment state is confirmed.

Contract scenario

For a governed contract scenario, the click preserves the selected scenario and opens the commercial path. Scope and contract are established. The exact payable amount is approved. Only then does settlement move through the appropriate Stripe Quote, Invoice, Checkout, or another approved rail. Selecting a $250,000 scenario does not give a browser permission to invent a $250,000 charge.

Custom contract

For a custom position, the click establishes commercial intent. The exact contract price must be established under the applicable authority before settlement. "Custom" is not a blank check and not an invitation for client-side price entry.

Outcome participation

For verified outcome participation, the contracted rate is established before the outcome. Driftless later verifies attributable economic value under the agreed attribution rules, computes the matured dollar settlement, and then sends that exact dollar amount to the settlement rail. The percentage itself is not a Stripe Price.


Stripe Settles Money. Density6 Owns the Commercial Truth.

Stripe can contain Products and Prices that execute approved commercial settlement. It should not become the only surviving source of what Driftless sells or why a customer owes money.

Density6's commercial authority must preserve the economic object, scenario, list price or range, price version, effective date, billing type, authority, discount authority, contract requirement, settlement basis, outcome formula where applicable, verification requirements, evidence requirements, and commercial status. Stripe identifiers reference payment infrastructure. They do not replace business meaning.

A change to a current price creates a new commercial state. It does not rewrite an existing contract or historical settlement. Decision-time commercial truth must remain reconstructable for subscriptions, contracts, refunds, disputes, accounting, customer history, and evidence.


One Product Can Have Several Governed Prices

A commercial Product is the thing the customer buys. A Price is an exact amount for a governed scenario. Those are not the same object.

Managed Operating Lane, for example, is one economic object. Its standard monthly scenarios include $500, $1,000, $2,500, $5,000, $7,500, $10,000, $12,500, and $15,000. Density6 does not need eight pretend products merely because Stripe stores eight Prices. The same rule applies to Business Completion, Constraint Breakthrough Deployment, Sovereignty Installation, Paid Bounded Production Proof, Enterprise Production Relationship, Global Operating Mission Assessment, Strategic Lighthouse Deployment, and Strategic Production Relationship.

The range is an authority boundary. The scenario is an exact governed amount within that boundary. A custom contract establishes an exact price when the approved engagement exceeds the enumerated standard scenarios.


Vertical Intelligence Can Be Contracted Without Pretending It Is a Seat

Driftless is Density6's founding Vertical Intelligence Product. Vertical Intelligence is broader than a model plus industry data. A Vertical Intelligence system can bind an operational ontology, present and historical state, authority, policy and constraints, capabilities, workflows and missions, evidence and provenance, economics, deployment, learning, and verification into one governed operating model.

That creates commercial objects that ordinary SaaS pricing does not describe well. A customer may require a Vertical Intelligence License, customer-specific adaptation, autonomous capacity, assurance, compliance, federation, dedicated deployment, ongoing sovereign operation, FDME or integration, support and SLA commitments, private distribution, or adaptive intelligence through Reality-Reconciled Learning. Those objects are legitimate even when the current doctrine does not assign one universal public price to them. When the commercial authority establishes an exact contract amount, the settlement rail can receive that amount.

The principle is simple enough to audit: do not invent a universal price where the doctrine has not established one.


Frequently Asked Questions

Do I need a card to start?

No. The Free Gate is $0 forever and does not require a card merely to establish the free commercial relationship.

Are tokens or credits the Driftless billing unit?

No. Density6 has no universal customer token or credit currency. Compute remains a production input. The commercial unit follows what the contract says you bought.

What happened to the old meaning of FTU?

The earlier token-based meaning was superseded. FTU now means Fair Throughput & Utilization™. FTU governs scarce production resources; it is not a customer currency.

If an agent retries ten times, do I pay ten times?

Not automatically. Retries remain part of Density6 production truth and cost accounting. The customer's obligation follows the contract and the verified settlement event, not the number of failed internal attempts.

If I use my own model key, does Density6 mark up the provider bill?

The canonical BYOK provider markup is 0%.

Does Driftless charge every user or employee as a seat?

There is no universal Density6 seat tax. A contract can account for real support, identity, assurance, or capacity burdens where they matter, but seat count is not the constitutional definition of customer value.

Does Driftless take a percentage of everything my customers buy?

The default external-seller transaction tax is 0%. A separate explicitly contracted commercial object can have its own economics where justified. There is no automatic percentage merely because commerce flowed through a Driftless-connected process.

Why do some high-value prices have a CTA if the click does not immediately charge me?

Because every governed commercial position needs a deterministic entry point. The offer identifier preserves what you selected. Contract formation, authority, verification, and settlement rules determine what happens next. A deterministic CTA is not the same thing as permission to charge a card.

Why show enterprise scenario prices at all?

Because "contact us" should not be used to hide the commercial architecture. Density6 can disclose its governed standard positions while still requiring the correct contract and authority process for consequential work.

Is the biggest customer automatically charged the biggest price?

No. Enterprise and institutional pricing follows the actual scope, throughput, authority, assurance, risk, deployment, responsibility, scarcity, capital burden, support burden, verification burden, and defensible value. Company size can influence those facts. It does not replace them.

How does outcome participation work?

The percentage is contracted before the outcome. Attribution rules define what counts. Evidence establishes the attributable economic improvement. Verification determines whether the outcome matured. Density6 then computes the exact dollar fee and sends that dollar amount to the settlement rail. The rate itself is not charged as a Stripe Price.

Can a historical price still exist?

Yes. Historical commercial truth must remain reconstructable for existing subscriptions, contracts, refunds, disputes, migration, accounting, and customer history. Historical existence does not grant new-sales authority to a retired price.

Does a successful API call mean I owe money?

No. Technical activity does not create commercial authority. The contract defines the settlement event. Evidence and verification determine whether it became true.


Start Where Responsibility Is Clear

If you need the operating environment and more capacity, choose the public level that matches the scope you actually need. If you need a bounded revenue-recovery intervention, choose the $497 launch. If you need Driftless to complete missing business infrastructure, operate a lane, break a constraint, install sovereignty, prove a consequential production claim, or accept enterprise or strategic operating responsibility, choose the governed commercial position that best represents the work you are asking Density6 to accept.

If the position is custom, we establish the contract before settlement. If compensation depends on a verified outcome, we establish the attribution rules before the outcome. If the system cannot prove the settlement event required by the contract, technical activity alone does not make the charge legitimate.

The goal is not to make pricing mysterious. The goal is to keep the commercial object honest.

What to do next

The Free Gate tier is free, permanently, and you do not need a credit card to start. The Free Gate is $0 forever. No credit card is required.. Paying for a higher tier buys more volume and more leverage — it never unlocks a capability we were holding back.

If it turns out not to be for you, you have paid nothing and there is nothing to cancel.