What “free during the beta” actually means

"Free during the beta" is one of those phrases that usually hides something: a card on file, a trial clock, a plan that auto-converts the moment you stop paying attention. Ours hides nothing, but "trust us" is not an argument — so here is the full accounting.

Free means billing is off

Billing is off during the beta — everything is free. Not discounted, not metered, not a trial with a countdown. There is no card to enter, because there is nowhere in the product to enter one: no checkout, no billing screens, no subscription to remember to cancel. You cannot wake up to an invoice from us, because nothing exists that could send you one.

Seats: the only number to understand

Every beta workspace includes 10 seats. A seat is a person who signs in — someone who builds review flows, owns contracts, runs the board, reads the dashboard. Your contract managers, in other words.

Reviewers are not seats. Reviewers never log in, never create an account, and never cost anything — reviewers are always free and unlimited. This is the part of the model people double-check, so plainly: your review flows can touch forty reviewers across legal, finance, and half the leadership team, and you might still only need three seats. Who counts as which is spelled out in the seats and reviewers guide.

The honest limits

Free doesn't mean infinite, and we'd rather you hear the ceilings from us:

• 10 seats per workspace during the beta — the cap is enforced server-side, and we can't hand-raise it right now.
• 5,000 contracts per workspace. Generous for a beta; not unlimited, so we won't call it that.
• Best-effort support. We answer every message ourselves, but the Beta Program Agreement is candid that there's no SLA during the beta.

If any of these pinch for your team, tell us — real constraints from real teams are exactly the input a beta is for. The rest of the fine print lives in the beta billing article.

What happens when pricing lands

Pricing is TBA. The planned tiers are Team, Business, and Enterprise, and you'll notice we publish no dollar figures anywhere — a price on a website with no billing system behind it would be fiction, and we'd rather publish nothing than fiction. The current best answer to "what will it cost?" is the canonical pricing FAQ, alongside the pricing page itself.

And the founding-member question, stated as carefully as we state it in the legal docs: the Beta Program Agreement records our intention to give beta participants advance notice and preferential treatment when pricing arrives. It is deliberately framed as a courtesy, not a binding commitment — we think a small promise honored beats a grand one lawyered away later. The plain-terms version is in the founding-members article.

Your data doesn't depend on any of this

Whatever happens with pricing, your records are yours. Your documents never touched our servers to begin with — they live in your own storage — and everything Pishik does hold about your workspace is exportable at any time: any single contract record, or the whole workspace. If the beta ends, or pricing lands and Pishik stops being right for you, you leave with your records. The export guide shows how.

That's the whole deal: free that actually means free, limits stated out loud, and promises sized so we can keep them.