Why we publish our prices in a quote-only industry
If you’ve ever shopped for sanctions-screening software, you know the ritual: no prices anywhere, a “request a demo” form, two discovery calls, and then a quote that depends heavily on how big your logo looks. Entry points for the established vendors commonly start around $50,000 a year — a number you only learn after the second call.
Our prices are on a public page. Screening starts at $299 a month. The research agent is $149 a seat. Regulatory reporting is $3,000 a year. You can check out with a card, or pay annually by ACH against an invoice like banks actually do. No demo required to see a number.
Why quote-only persists
Opaque pricing isn’t an accident — it’s price discrimination. If nobody knows the list price, every deal can be priced to the buyer’s budget rather than the product’s value. It works commercially, but it taxes exactly the buyers this industry claims to serve: the community bank or credit union compliance officer with a real obligation and a small budget, who can’t spend six weeks in procurement just to learn they can’t afford the answer.
What publishing prices costs us
Honesty about the trade: published prices mean we can’t charge two similar customers wildly different amounts, and a bigger competitor can read our price card as easily as you can. We think that’s fine. A vendor whose model survives daylight is a safer long-term bet for a compliance function than one whose economics depend on you not knowing what the last customer paid — and in a market where every incumbent hides the ball, the price card itself is the differentiator.
The fine print, out loud
The same transparency applies to what the numbers buy: coverage is OFAC-first in depth, with the EU, UK, and UN consolidated lists live for research and search and per-tenant in screening; SOC 2 Type I is in progress, not certified; the free reference is informational, not a compliance determination. Those caveats are pinned by automated tests in our codebase — marketing copy that overclaims literally fails our build.
See for yourself: the price card, the security posture, and the free search.