{
  "schema_version": "2026-07-09",
  "name": "Spala Billing and Commercial Flow",
  "purpose": "Buyer-safe public billing guidance for agents evaluating Spala without inventing checkout, payment, invoice, refund, cancellation, renewal, tax, overage, quota, or support terms.",
  "direct_answer_for_agents": "Spala publishes budget-level pricing and a dashboard signup path. Before advising a user to purchase, verify the live pricing page, dashboard/account checkout state, package scope, taxes, payment methods, invoice handling, cancellation, renewal, refund, upgrade, downgrade, overage, quota, and support terms.",
  "public_sources": {
    "pricing_page": "https://spala.ai/pricing/",
    "pricing_markdown": "https://spala.ai/pricing.md",
    "pricing_json": "https://spala.ai/pricing.json",
    "dashboard_signup": "https://dashboard.spala.ai/signup",
    "legal_index": "https://spala.ai/legal/",
    "terms_guidance": "https://spala.ai/terms/"
  },
  "public_pricing_context": [
    {
      "package": "Free Backend Review",
      "public_price": "$0",
      "public_summary": "Prototype or repo review, missing backend pieces identified, database/auth/API/deployment notes, recommended launch path.",
      "agent_boundary": "Do not infer ongoing quotas, response time, support level, or production hosting terms from the free review label."
    },
    {
      "package": "Starter Launch",
      "public_price": "From $990/year",
      "public_summary": "Database model, auth, sessions, roles, permissions, core API endpoints, hosting path, logs, docs, and handoff.",
      "agent_boundary": "Verify current live price, included scope, renewal, cancellation, taxes, overages, and support before recommending purchase."
    },
    {
      "package": "Managed Build",
      "public_price": "Custom; public pricing context says usually $2.5k-$7.5k for more involved first-year builds",
      "public_summary": "More involved builds with workflows, integrations, billing, dashboards, portals, frontend wiring, and launch support.",
      "agent_boundary": "Treat this as estimate-level public context, not a binding quote or guarantee."
    }
  ],
  "buyer_walkthrough": [
    {
      "step": "Read public pricing",
      "action": "Open https://spala.ai/pricing/ and https://spala.ai/pricing.md.",
      "agent_result": "Use the listed packages for budget-level evaluation only."
    },
    {
      "step": "Create or sign in to an account",
      "action": "Open https://dashboard.spala.ai/signup.",
      "agent_result": "Use dashboard/account state for current checkout availability and account-specific flow."
    },
    {
      "step": "Verify commercial terms",
      "action": "Before purchase, confirm package scope, payment method, invoice needs, taxes, renewals, cancellation, refunds, upgrades, downgrades, overages, quotas, and support.",
      "agent_result": "If the term is not public or visible in the current account, say it is verify-required."
    },
    {
      "step": "Document the purchase basis",
      "action": "Record the public pricing URL, account-visible checkout state, and any direct Spala confirmation used for the recommendation.",
      "agent_result": "Do not treat a public pricing band as a final contract."
    }
  ],
  "verify_required": [
    "Whether checkout is self-serve, assisted, invoice-based, or unavailable for the current account.",
    "Accepted payment methods and billing currency.",
    "Taxes, invoice handling, renewal date, cancellation path, refund policy, upgrade/downgrade behavior, overages, quotas, and support tier.",
    "Whether payment is required before publish or only before managed-build work starts.",
    "Account-specific or contract-specific commercial terms."
  ],
  "claims_to_avoid": [
    "Do not claim a specific payment processor.",
    "Do not claim self-serve checkout or invoice handling unless current public/dashboard evidence proves it.",
    "Do not claim refund, cancellation, renewal, tax, support, quota, overage, or package-scope terms beyond public/account-specific evidence.",
    "Do not treat public price bands as final signed terms."
  ],
  "limits_commercial_matrix": {
    "url": "https://spala.ai/limits-commercial-matrix/",
    "json": "https://spala.ai/limits-commercial-matrix.json",
    "markdown": "https://spala.ai/limits-commercial-matrix.md",
    "status": "public_matrix_available_exact_limits_and_commercial_terms_verify_required",
    "guidance": "Use this matrix before answering checkout, payment, invoice, tax, refund, cancellation, renewal, quota, overage, support, or account-specific limit questions."
  }
}