TLDR: The best thing about selling access instead of files is that the subscription enforces itself. A subscriber who stops paying is refused on their next call; nobody has to chase anyone. Tiers are Stacks, so a Starter tier and a Pro tier are two grants, not two builds. Your dashboard shows who is in. Your billing can add and remove people through webhooks on the larger plans. And because the Skill is never shipped as a file, the thing you sell is still yours to sell tomorrow.

Key Takeaways

  • Access can be enforced; a file cannot.
  • Tiers are Stacks: grant, do not rebuild.
  • Removal on the next call means no chasing.
  • Billing webhooks on the larger plans keep the list in step with payments.
  • The method you sold yesterday is still yours to sell tomorrow.
  • Price the outcome; the Skill is the delivery.

Files are a one-time sale

Sell a Skill as a document and you have been paid once for an unlimited licence. The buyer can share it, keep it and copy it. Your "monthly" plan is a polite request.

Access is a subscription that enforces itself

Grant a Stack instead. The subscriber connects, signs in and uses the Skills while they are on your list, with the check made on every call. When they cancel, remove them (or let your billing system do it) and their next call is refused. You never send the "please stop using it" email because there is nothing in their folder to stop.

Tiers without building tiers

A Starter Stack with your three entry Skills and a Pro Stack with all ten is two Stacks and two grants. Upgrading a customer is moving them from one to the other. Add a Skill to the Pro Stack next month and every Pro subscriber has it from their next chat.

Keeping the list in step with payments

Manual adds and CSV uploads are fine at the start. On the larger plans your billing system can add and remove subscribers through webhooks, so a failed payment or a cancellation updates access without you logging in.

Protecting the thing you sell

If the Skill is the product, IP mode means customers get the result, not the recipe; the method never reaches them or their assistant, so the recipe is still yours to sell to the next customer. If the value is in the outcome and the support around it, Password mode is simpler and cheaper to run.

Price the outcome

Customers pay for what the Skill does for them, not for the text. Name the tier after the result, put the Skills that produce it in the Stack, and let the connector do the delivery. Your plan's cost is on the pricing page; the rest of the margin is yours.

Start with one tier

One Stack, your best three Skills, your first ten customers. Grant, do not send. Then build the Pro Stack when the first ten ask for more.