Keep the seat.Add the meter.
Procurement still buys seats. Your product still ships features that move per call, per gigabyte, per outcome. The plan has to carry both. One plan. One invoice. Seats, usage, credits and outcomes on the same ledger.
A hybrid plan only works if four things are true.
Seats and meters join per workspace. Plans compose without a deploy. Entitlements decide every request. Margin holds when providers move.
Seats and meters on the same row.
A flat seat number hides which workspace is paying for which. The ten-seat customer running 4M AI calls is funding the fifty-seat customer that logs in twice a month. Join seats, usage and outcomes per workspace and the renewal conversation writes itself.
- Seats × calls × storage × outcomes per workspace. One ledger, not four spreadsheets stitched on Friday.
- Margin lives on the row. Sort the underwater accounts in one click — before renewal, not after.
- Replay any month against any plan. Re-rate last quarter on a fair-use cap. Promote when the math agrees.
- Notebook-CoBusiness · 64 seats · 1.2M AI$2,840+272%
- Brightside HRPro · 22 seats · 80GB$820+164%
- HatchworksPro · 18 seats · 9.4M AI$540−96-84%
- LoomstackBusiness · 40 seats · 12TB$2,400−1824%
- Forge MonoEnterprise · 320 seats · 28M AI$28,400+171%
- NorthwindBusiness · 50 seats · 380k tx$3,900+269%
- seat$29.00/ seat / mo
- meter[ai.calls]$0.012/ call · include 500 × seats
- meter[storage]$0.18/ GB / mo · free_tier 25GB
- outcome[resolved]$2.00/ ticket · billed on success only
- credit[trial]1,000applied · workspace_age < 30d
One plan. Zero deploys.Three motions.
A hybrid plan bills three things at once: a seat for access, a meter for value, a credit for trial. Describe the plan in plain English. Nozle compiles a versioned plan you can ship to one workspace or all of them. Roll back is a click.
- Seats, meters, credits — composable. Tiered, volume, package, hybrid — combine per plan, not per release.
- Versioned per workspace. Grandfather an early customer with a flag, not a six-week migration.
- Test on real revenue. Run a new meter alongside the live one. Promote when it lands the margin you want.
Seats unlock access. Meters decide every request.
A seat answers once, at login. A hybrid plan answers on every request. Allow the trusted workspace to burst. Hard-block the runaway. Lift a cap for one customer with a flag. Every decision lands in the same ledger finance reads from.
- A decision on every request. Atomic check-and-deduct through one /can call.
- Block, or auto-bill the burst. Overflow is a line item, not an outage.
- Per-workspace overrides from the dashboard. Lift a cap for one account. No deploy, no PR.
- ✓Notebook-Co· ai.summarize(doc)$0.02allowed└─ Pro tier · 38% of monthly cap
- ✓Brightside HR· export.csv(rows=12k)$0.18allowed└─ Pro tier · within fair-use
- ✗Hatchworks· ai.agent.run(steps=40)$1.40capped└─ Pro tier · monthly AI call cap hit
- ✓Loomstack· export.bulk(rows=4M)$3.20allowed└─ Business tier · within cap
- ✓Forge Mono· ai.embed(rows=80k)$12.40burst-billed└─ Enterprise · auto-bill above cap
- ✓Northwind· checkout.create(order)$0.0009allowed└─ 23% of monthly cap
- ai · summarizetier · 01gpt-4o→haiku-3.5+34%margin
- ai · embedtier · 02openai-3-lg→voyage-3+22%margin
- object storagetier · 03us-east-1→r2+38%cogs
- support · agenttier · 04opus-4→opus-4🔒pinned
Providers move. The customer's price doesn't.
Cloud bills move. AI prices swing every quarter. Egress moves. The invoice the customer signed up to doesn't have to. Set a margin floor per feature. Nozle denies the requests that break it, hard-blocks runaway tenants, and lets through the overage you've decided to bill.
- Margin floor enforced at runtime. Allow, warn or deny at /can when estimated margin breaks the floor.
- Caps for runaway tenants. Hard-block, or bill the overrun as overage — your call, per plan.
- Simulate before you ship. Run a new price against last month's usage first. Roll back without a migration.
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