Pricing
Less than your coffee.
More than your toolstack.
Fifty-plus capabilities to run your company. One bill, not fifty SaaS subscriptions.
- One flat monthly subscription
- Every capability, every experience, everything we run for you, in one fee.
- No token meters
- You run a company on us, not an experiment. You will never be asked to buy more tokens.
- Government fees at cost
- Formation, EIN, 83(b), and the like passed straight through. No markup.
- Optional one-time add-ons
- Extras like extended competitive analysis or registered mail, only if you want them.
Fees finalize before GA, guaranteed under what you spend on coffee in a month. We add value first; when you grow, a thin slice funds the platform. We win when you win.
See what founders actually pay todayWhat you actually get
A coffee’s price. A back office’s worth.
Add up what you pay for first. Then add up what you cannot buy at any price.
Tangible, what you’d pay separately
$200–$700+/ month
Startups run lean, and you should not pay an arm and a leg before your first dollar. We built only the integrated capabilities a startup needs to run, no fluff you also pay for. Bought separately, that stack is:
- Formation, Legal & Cap Table
- Bookkeeping & Accounting
- Sales & CRM
- Vertical SaaS (your industry's must-have)
- Payment processing fees
- Calendaring & Scheduling
- Growth & Acquisition Retainers
- Local SEO / AEO retainer
- Website creation & maintenance
- Review & reputation management
- Hiring & Recruiting
- Analytics, AEO & Discoverability
- Productivity & Collaboration
- Development & Infrastructure
- Application Monitoring
- AI Coding & Build Tools
- Design
Intangible, what no SaaS sells
Six experiences, not six tools
Sentinel watches, Cadenza tests, Allegro moves, Tempo paces, Recall remembers, the First Room opens the door. Felt, not configured.
One source of truth
Your formation, books, taxes, customers, and compliance share one brain. No copy-paste between fifty tabs, no number that disagrees with another.
An immutable audit trail
Every state-changing action is hash-chained and yours. The paper trail a bank, an investor, or the IRS asks for is already written.
Zero integration tax
No Zapier glue, no engineer wiring tools together, no breakage when one vendor changes an API. It already fits, because it is one platform.
For less than your coffee: the equivalent of hundreds to thousands a month in tools, plus everything no tool sells. That is the math.
Why we priced this way
Aligned with your growth, not your stress.
A founder starts bleeding money the day the idea lands. Legal, tools, books, filing fees, tax bombs, thousands a month before a single customer says yes. We priced CR3SCENDO AI to fix that, not exploit it.
Try the whole thing
Every capability unlocked from day one. No decision forced in the first 90 days.
Everyone gets everything
Tiers gate volume, not features. The corner shop and the venture startup get the same Vault, the same Daily Huddle.
We grow when you grow
Past the flat fee, you pay cost plus a thin margin until you cross a growth threshold. We make almost nothing while you find your feet.
What we are not
What we are
Another tool to learn
The work, already done
A chatbot you prompt
A briefing that shows up with a plan
Fifty logins and tabs
One source of truth
Priced for the day you start
Priced for the day you grow
Frequently asked
Pricing FAQ
How CR3SCENDO AI's Nexus is priced, what is included, how the liminal model works, and the boundary on what we replace versus what stays on your stack.
Is CR3SCENDO AI's Nexus really less than what I spend on coffee a month?
Yes. Pre-GA we do not publish a hard dollar number; the canonical framing is less than what you spend on coffee a month and that is how the entry tier prices. Final pricing is announced at general availability. The /pricing page shows what a founder is paying today across software, legal, books, growth, and infrastructure; CR3SCENDO replaces or absorbs the parts inside the company-operations layer.
Should I expect to pay you more down the road?
Our pricing is outcome-aligned: you grow, we grow. As you cross meaningful milestones, for example as you pass a revenue milestone, or when you raise a round, we may increase your pricing proportionally, so we can keep investing in the cost structure and the advanced capabilities that evolve with you. The intent is to stay quiet and inexpensive while you are finding your feet, and to scale only as you scale. For specifics tied to your own revenue projections, write to finance@cr3scendo.ai.
If you use cutting-edge AI, why don't you charge by tokens?
Precisely because we use a lot of it. Token pricing makes your bill unknowable: no one can tell you up front how many tokens running your company will take, so you only find out the cost after it has run. And when a tool leads with free tokens or a free token allowance, that is usually the tell that the real bill, once you cross the line, is steep. We took that uncertainty onto ourselves. You pay one flat monthly subscription, and the AI cost is ours to manage, not a meter you watch.
How does Liminal Pricing work?
Liminal Pricing keeps you at a low, flat cost while you are in the liminal phase, that early stretch where you are finding your feet, and scales only as you cross real milestones. You pay one flat monthly subscription (at entry, less than what you spend on coffee a month), every capability unlocked, with the AI cost ours to manage rather than a meter you watch. It is outcome-aligned: as you cross meaningful milestones, for example passing a revenue threshold or raising a round, your pricing increases proportionally so we can keep investing in the capabilities that grow with you. We add value first, and a slice of your upside funds the platform when you actually grow. We win when you win. For specifics tied to your own revenue projections, write to finance@cr3scendo.ai.
What does CR3SCENDO AI replace?
We replace or absorb four functional layers of spend: (1) formation, legal, and cap table (Stripe Atlas, Clerky, outside counsel, fractional GC, Carta); (2) bookkeeping and accounting (QuickBooks, plus the outsourced bookkeeper a founder picks at scale); (3) sales, CRM, and marketing operations (HubSpot, Mailchimp, Calendly); (4) growth and acquisition retainers (Reddit AEO, UGC video, creator collabs, SEO link insertions). The /pricing page lists every line with its source.
What does CR3SCENDO AI NOT replace?
We do not enter your build stack. We do not replace your IDE (Cursor, Replit, Lovable, GitHub Copilot, Bolt, v0). We do not replace your hosting (Vercel, Fly.io, AWS, Google Cloud, Cloudflare, Netlify, Render). We do not replace your monitoring (Sentry, Datadog, New Relic). We do not replace your design tools (Figma, Canva, Adobe). We are not a chatbot or AI coding tool. We absorb the company underneath your work; you keep whatever build stack you prefer. One sentence: CR3SCENDO AI runs the company underneath the work; it does not run the work itself.
Is CR3SCENDO AI an AI coding tool or IDE?
No. CR3SCENDO AI is NOT an AI coding tool, IDE, or code generator. It does not compete with Cursor, Replit, Lovable, GitHub Copilot, Bolt, or v0. It is a Digital Co-Founder™™ platform that handles the business of running a business: legal formation, ongoing compliance, books and taxes, customer records, the morning briefing. It works alongside whatever AI coding tools and IDEs a founder already uses. A founder using CR3SCENDO AI needs no technical background and never types a prompt.
Why does the cost range on the pricing page swing so much?
Because the same audience pays very different amounts at entry versus at scale. At entry, most of the software is on free tiers, the founder skips outsourced bookkeeping, has no fractional GC, no growth-marketing retainers, no ATS subscription. As the company scales, the founder layers those in. The high end of the range reflects what a founder would otherwise spend at scale; CR3SCENDO absorbs it so the margin compounds for you, not your vendors.
Do I need to be technical to use CR3SCENDO AI?
No. CR3SCENDO AI is built for a founder who has a craft and a customer relationship, not for a founder who wants another tool to master. You do not need an IT person. You do not need to be fluent in AI. You do not type prompts. We hide all of the complexity on the company layer.
Why do you say less than what I spend on coffee?
Because the price needs to be reachable for any founder serious about building, not just venture-track ones. A specialty coffee at $5 to $7 a day adds up. The CR3SCENDO AI's Nexus entry tier prices below that monthly total. Final hard number lands at general availability.
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