Tirdad field guides

See the system behind the price.

Start with the commercial decision, then follow it through the catalog, subscription, usage, and invoice.

One decision, five connected steps

Follow the full path or enter where your current decision begins.

Start with your question

Each route answers a different decision without repeating the same guide.

Start here · the core path

Five connected guides take one feature from its first pricing decision to a billable customer journey.

Choose when it fits · specialized models

Patterns for products whose pricing needs a different operating model, starting with AI usage units.

Go deeper · the decisions that shape everything

Pressure-test the model before customers, costs, regulation, or architecture expose the assumptions hiding inside it.

03AI monetization

Your AI Cost Is Not Your Price

A report costs you tokens, retries, storage, and model calls. The customer buys none of them. Build a price around the result without losing control of margin.

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