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FIELD MANUAL № 002 · SCHEDULE OF RATES

Here’s what it costs. No phone call required.

You shouldn’t have to sit through a sales pitch to find out whether the numbers work. Do the math in your truck at 6:40am and decide for yourself. Here are the prices, what we count, and what you get.

Priced by assemblies under management — not per seat, not per test. Unlimited users on every plan.

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THE METER

We count assemblies. Not people. Not tests.

Most field software charges per seat, so the bill goes up when you add help. Some companies charge per test filed, so they take another bite every time you finish the work that pays you.

Neither describes a backflow operation. Your book of business is the assemblies you're responsible for: the assemblies with your name on the annual clock, the history, and the filing. That number is what grows when you win, what your route is built from, and what Gage actually holds. So that's the meter.

Not per seat

Unlimited users on every plan. Your helper, your bookkeeper, your kid who does the invoicing on Sundays — add them. Charging you to let someone else help is a tax on delegation, and you have enough taxes.

Not per test

Run ten thousand tests. The bill doesn't move. A per-test fee is a toll booth on the one activity that pays you, and it quietly punishes the operators who are best at their job.

Per assembly on the clock

You pay for the size of the book Gage is keeping — the assemblies it's tracking, remembering, and filing for. Land more assemblies, move up a plan. Until then, nothing changes.

SCHEDULE OF RATES · USD · MONTHLY

Three plans. The only thing that changes is how many assemblies.

Read that literally, because there is no feature column on this page to read instead. Every plan is the entire product. The offline app, the filings, the portals, subcontractor access, the API — all of it, on the $89 plan, on day one. The only question this page asks you is how big your book is.

Gating capability by tier means deliberately shipping a worse product to the operator who can least afford the difference, then charging them to undo it. We'd rather just meter the thing we actually meter. You will never upgrade to unlock a feature — you'll upgrade because you took on more assemblies, which is the same event that made you able to pay for it.

500

assemblies under management

$89/mo

or $890/year — two months free

A book that size runs about $45,000 a year in tests

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WHERE MOST ESTABLISHED BOOKS LAND

2,500

assemblies under management

$189/mo

or $1,890/year — two months free

A book that size runs about $225,000 a year in tests

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10,000

assemblies under management

$389/mo

or $3,890/year — two months free

A book that size runs about $900,000 a year in tests

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In all three. Not "in the plan you'll grow into."

Your rate never increases. The price you start at is the price you keep, with one opt-in carve-out for features that cost us money every time they run. The rate lock.

PARALLEL TRACK · QUOTED

Dedicated: the same product, on infrastructure that's only yours.

Not a bigger plan — a different place to run. Some operations can't sit on shared infrastructure: a procurement rule, a residency requirement, an uptime number somebody already wrote into a contract. Book size has nothing to do with it. A 400-assembly operator with a municipal contract may need this; a 9,000-assembly one may never think about it.

Quoted rather than listed, because standing up your own infrastructure costs what it costs. Tell us the requirement you're trying to satisfy and you'll get a number back.

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THE ARITHMETIC · DO IT YOURSELF

The break-even is small enough to check in your head.

Set what you charge for an average test. We’ll show how many tests a year each plan has to protect before it has paid for itself. Not save you. Not delight you. Just cover its own cost.

SLIDER: $25–$200 · OR TYPE ANY PRICE IN THE BOX

◍ GAGE · BREAK-EVEN WORKSHEET ● AT $90/TEST
  • 500 $1,068/year — pays for itself at 12 tests 2.4% of a 500-assembly book
  • 2,500 $2,268/year — pays for itself at 26 tests 1.0% of a 2,500-assembly book
  • 10,000 $4,668/year — pays for itself at 52 tests 0.5% of a 10,000-assembly book
ILLUSTRATIVE · monthly rate × 12, against assemblies × one annual test ANNUAL BILLING → two months back

At your number, that’s 12, 26, or 52 renewals, depending on the plan. Against a book where every assembly is legally required to be tested every year, forever. If Gage catches that many lapsed due dates — or saves that much windshield time, or turns that many finished-but-unfiled tests into money — the software is free and the rest is margin.

For scale at $90 a test: an established one-truck operation running about 1,200 assemblies does roughly $110,000 a year in tests. That book sits on the 2,500 plan, at $2,268 — a hair over two percent of gross, to hold every due date, every assembly history, and every filing for all 1,200 of them.

We're comfortable putting that on the page because we think the real number is much larger than the break-even. But you should hold us to the break-even, because that's the one you can verify.

NOT ON THE BILL · EVER

The line items you've been trained to expect, and won't find.

Every one of these is standard somewhere in field-service software. Each one is a small toll on an operator who's already paying. We've decided against all of them, in writing, on a public page, which is the only place a promise like this counts.

OPTIONAL · THE ONE THING THAT COSTS EXTRA

If you collect through Gage, it’s 3.5% total — card processing included.

You just read a list of things we refuse to charge for, so here is the one thing we do. Collecting card payments inside Gage is optional, off until you switch it on, and costs 3.5% of what you collect — no per-transaction fee, no monthly gateway fee, no statement fee, no minimum, no separate merchant account to apply for. Keep taking checks and cash if you'd rather; Gage records the payment either way, and the renewal clock doesn't care how the money arrived.

◍ GAGE · WHAT COLLECTION COSTS ● 3.5% · NO FIXED FEE
  • CARD One annual test — $90 invoice $3.15
  • CARD Three assemblies, one stop — $240 invoice $8.40
  • CARD Property manager, quarterly — $430 invoice $15.05
  • CHECK Still a check, still fine — recorded either way $0.00
ILLUSTRATIVE · 3.5% of the collected amount, nothing on top OPTIONAL → off until you turn it on

SITUATION REPORT · WHAT YOU'RE ACTUALLY BUYING

These are early prices, and we'll say why.

Meet Gage is in private development with one design partner — a backflow operation that's been running the route for thirty-one years. The product is real and being used against a real book. It is not, today, a mature platform with a decade of edge cases sanded off.

The prices above reflect that. They are lower than what this will cost once the product has more years and more scar tissue in it. If you come aboard now, three things are true, and we'll put them in your agreement rather than just on a webpage:

Direct line
You talk to the people building it. Feature requests go into the actual queue, not a portal.
Real support
A human, a phone, and a founder who knows what an RP is and why it's in a vault.
The trade
You're early. Some things will be missing. You get a say in what gets built and the price to match.

ANTICIPATED OBJECTIONS

The questions you'd ask on the phone.

How do you count an assembly?

Any assembly you're responsible for testing on an annual clock — the ones Gage is tracking, remembering, and filing for. Assemblies you've retired or handed off don't count. A site with six assemblies is six assemblies and one stop; the route planner knows the difference.

What if I'm just over a ceiling?

We tell you, and you decide. Nothing upgrades itself, nothing locks, nothing sends you a surprise. If you're at 520 assemblies on the 500 plan we're not going to make an event out of it.

Is there a free trial?

There's something better at this stage: we'll load your actual book of assemblies and let you run your real route on it. A trial on demo data proves nothing. A trial on your route proves everything. If it doesn't hold up, you've lost an email.

Why is there no signup button?

Because we're early enough that every customer gets set up by a person who cares whether it works. When there are enough of you that this stops scaling, we'll build the button. Right now the button would be worse for you.

Does the offline app cost extra?

No, and it never will. Working in a signal-dead mechanical room isn't a premium feature — it's the job. Charging extra for it would mean charging extra for the product working where you work.

What happens if I leave?

You export your assembly records, test history, and filings in an open format, and you go. We'd rather lose an account cleanly than keep one by holding its history hostage. Your compliance record is yours; we're just the filing cabinet with good manners.

REQUISITION

You've seen the numbers. Now the short part.

Tell us roughly how many assemblies you're carrying and what's currently holding them — spreadsheet, shoebox, a system you resent. We'll tell you which plan you're in and what it would take to get your book loaded. No deck, no demo-bot, no discovery-call funnel.

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A real inbox and a real phone. Bring your assembly count if you have it; a guess is fine if you don't.