Procurement-facing. Budget package.
Department Budget Blocks.
Per-deliverable pricing is a brilliant fit for solo operators and a punishing fit for enterprise accounting. A hundred separate $99 charges through Concur is a hundred separate procurement headaches. Department Budget Blocks resolve that without breaking the per-SKU price ceiling that makes the catalog honest.
How the block actually works.
- 1Procurement purchases the block. One PO, one Stripe invoice, one expense-report line item. Procurement is done for the quarter.
- 2The manager spends the block. Each catalog job runs at its public price (always at or below the $99 ceiling). The block deducts the deliverable price; the rest of the architecture is unchanged.
- 3Reporting stays browser-side. Per-deliverable history is recorded only in the manager's browser (see /usage). CSV exports go to accounting on request. We do not aggregate this server-side because the architecture has no place to put it.
- 4Unspent balance is refundable. Pro-rated refund on 30-day notice. No expiration, no clawback, no “use-it-or-lose-it” pressure. We are not in the float-on-prepaid-credits business.
- 5Continuity package attaches. The $5,000 threshold is the same one that activates source escrow, the acquisition poison-pill, and architectural-posture preservation. Buying a block buys those protections automatically.
Two block sizes.
Size for the velocity you actually run. The mechanics are identical; the difference is invoicing-and-reporting headroom.
Department Budget Block
One purchase order, one invoice line, one expense-report row. The manager spends from the block per deliverable across the catalog at the public $99 ceiling. Replaces the procurement chaos of forty separate corporate-card charges with one cleared budget envelope.
- Single PO, single Stripe invoice, single accounting line
- Continuity package activates automatically (source escrow + poison-pill + posture preservation)
- Spends across all 76 catalog jobs, no per-SKU pre-allocation
- Unspent balance refundable on 30-day notice; no expiration trap
- Department-level reporting via the browser usage dashboard, exportable to CSV
Department Budget Block, Plus
Same mechanics, doubled envelope. Right-sized for departments coordinating across two or three teams (marketing + ops, finance + BD, eng + research) where the per-team velocity individually justifies a budget block but consolidating reduces accounting overhead further.
- Everything in the $5,000 block
- Consolidated invoicing across team-level cost centers (custom split on request)
- Quarterly velocity report delivered as a structured catalog deliverable, no separate SLA
- Priority queue for any tier-3 deliverables exceeding standard delivery bands
- Direct line to product on catalog-scope feedback
The $99 per-SKU ceiling is unchanged.
A budget block is a pre-payment shape, not a pricing shape. No catalog item has its price raised because a block is funding the spend. No volume discount drifts the economics. The block is just a procurement convenience layered on top of the same public per-deliverable pricing that any solo founder pays.
The reason we hold this line: the moment per-SKU pricing diverges by buyer class, the honest catalog promise (predictable, public, deterministic) starts to dissolve. The block exists to remove your accounting friction, not to extract more dollars per deliverable.
Procurement next step.
Block setup is a one-business-day turnaround once procurement confirms the cost center, the manager-of-record, and the invoice schedule. Block reporting can be wired into your team's preferred accounting tool via the CSV export from the manager's browser dashboard.
For setup, redline of the consolidated invoice rider, or pricing-and-cadence conversations, contact [email protected].