Pricing

There are no tiers to squeeze into.

We build the package around what you actually do, volume, seats, which surfaces you'll use, and the price follows it. Nothing you've outgrown, no seats you don't fill, no feature you pay for and never open. Invoiced directly, so there's no card on file.

WHAT A MONTH LOOKS LIKE · DRAG IT 15 CONTRACTS A MONTH
51540100250
NEW CONTRACTS
15
at 1.0 credit
FOLLOW-UP ROUNDS
30
at 0.5 each
Credits you'd need 30.0 a month

An ops or procurement team with steady supplier paperwork. This is the commonest shape we see.

A NEGOTIATION AVERAGES TWO FOLLOW-UP ROUNDS
SHAPED BY
Your actual usage
BILLING
Invoiced directly
FAILED RUNS
Never charged
How it's put together

Three conversations, then a number.

01 · YOU TELL US
What you're dealing with

Roughly how many contracts a month, who needs to log in, who only ever forwards an email, and which of the surfaces you'll actually use.

02 · WE CONFIGURE IT
A package shaped like you

Volume, seats, approved senders and features are set per organisation. Nothing is bundled to force you up a tier you don't need.

03 · IT MOVES WITH YOU
Repriced when you change

Volume doubles or a team joins, we adjust the package and the price.

WHAT WE SET FOR YOU
Contracts a monthWord add-inMember seatsEmail-inApproved sendersAsk Vern chatFollow-up round rateDraftingCredit rates themselvesChatGPT, Claude and the APIExpert review, per reviewWhich surfaces you switch on

Every one of these is a per-organisation setting rather than a tier boundary, which is why we can price a five-person consultancy and a fifty-person procurement team without pretending they're the same shape.

IN EVERY PACKAGE
Reviews, playbooks and the web dashboard
Approved senders, however many you have
Playbook setup from your own contracts
Support, onboarding and playbook changes
UK/EU residency, DPA and audit exports

This part doesn't move. Whatever shape your package takes, the review itself and the people who look after it are in it.

Credits

You pay for reviews that reach you.

A submission places a soft reservation. The credit is only consumed when the analysis completes and comes back to you. Anything that fails, a parse error, a timeout, a cancellation, releases the reservation and consumes nothing, and retrying never double-charges. The rates below are our usual ones; they are set per organisation, so heavy users are often on different numbers.

WHAT COSTS WHAT TYPICAL RATES · SET PER ORGANISATION
First review of a contract However it arrives, upload, email, Word or API 1.0
Each later round of the same deal Their redline, your edit, configurable per plan 0.5
Drafting a contract from your playbook In the Word add-in · still being priced 0.25
Re-running the same version Model upgrade, playbook tweak, or just checking us 0.0
Opening a contract Vern has seen Same content, same version, findings recalled 0.0
Anything that fails or times out Reservation released, retry is free 0.0
A four-round negotiation

Priced as one deal rather than four reviews, which is the point of the fractional rate.

Round 1 · their paper 1.0
Round 2 · their redline 0.5
Round 3 · after your redlines 0.5
Round 4 · final, signed 0.5
Total 2.5
AT QUOTA
Nothing queued, nothing charged

Submissions are turned away with a clear message rather than parked to surprise you next month. An admin can add credits at any time.

Deliberately absent

Four things we've decided not to do.

Each of these costs us something. They're here because we'd rather be held to them.

No published tiers

A published tier means someone pays for volume they don’t use or gets cut off mid-negotiation. We’d rather quote the customer in front of us and be asked why.

No card on file

Invoiced directly, monthly. Nothing renews because you forgot, and nothing charges because a job ran twice.

No per-seat pricing on people who never log in

The branch manager who forwards four contracts a year is an approved sender, not a seat.

The obvious questions

Asked before you have to.

Why won’t you put a price on the page?

Because a number on a page is a tier, and a tier means someone pays for volume they don’t use or gets cut off mid-negotiation. Every package is quoted for the customer in front of us, volume, seats, surfaces and credit rates. Tell us your shape and we’ll come back with the number in writing.

Is there a free trial?

Better than that, we build a playbook live on the call and run an anonymised contract from your sector against it, so you see what Vern catches before you’ve paid anything.

What if we go over?

Submissions stop rather than silently costing more. An admin can add credits immediately, and if you’re consistently over we’d rather reprice the package than sell you overage.

Do unused credits roll over?

The monthly quota resets, and staff can add bonus credits to your organisation at any time. If your usage is lumpy, most teams’ is, say so and we’ll size for the peak rather than the average.

How does expert review work?

You escalate a review to a qualified reviewer from inside Vern. It’s billed per review when their revision is released to you, and the AI review that preceded it consumed its normal single credit, opting in never costs extra credits.

Tell us your shape and we'll tell you the number.

Thirty minutes on a call, an anonymised contract from your sector, then the package and the number in writing. No procurement dance.