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 "schema_version": "1.0",
 "id": "buzz-ai",
 "name": "Buzz.ai",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "buzz.ai",
 "category": "Sales & CRM",
 "task": "Sales outreach, leads & CRM",
 "summary": "AI-powered outbound platform: prompt it and it finds intent-ready buyers, writes multichannel sequences and books the meetings — per-seat plans with monthly credit allowances and a free start.",
 "best_for": "GTM teams that want AI to run outbound end-to-end — prompt-driven prospecting of intent-ready buyers, multichannel sequences and meeting booking without adding SDR headcount",
 "skip_if": "you send low-volume, hand-crafted outreach (per-seat-plus-credits is overkill), or you're not ready to QA an AI that writes to your market on your behalf",
 "honest_knock": "Two meters run at once: seats AND credits — the seat price includes a credit allowance (500 a month on Core, 5,000 on AI Employee, read 5 September 2026), and real outbound volume means credit packages on top, so budget past the sticker. Watch the moving numbers too: the page changed twice this summer — a $75 teaser, then $79 a seat; $795 with a promised rise to $1,000, then $695 — and the $2,500 setup fee now sits on Enterprise and the white-label plans, so decide on the total for the plan you are actually offered, not the sticker. And the honest fundamental for any AI-SDR: it only books meetings as good as your list and offer, so keep a human reviewing what goes out in your name.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "public",
  "entry_price": "$79",
  "entry_price_terms": "per seat a month (500 credits/mo, billed monthly)",
  "from_price_usd_month": 79.0,
  "plans": [
   {
    "name": "Core",
    "price": "$79 per seat a month",
    "includes": "500 credits a month; $0 setup fee"
   },
   {
    "name": "AI Employee",
    "price": "$695 per seat a month",
    "includes": "5,000 credits a month; $0 setup fee"
   },
   {
    "name": "Enterprise",
    "price": "custom",
    "includes": "25,000 credits a month, five seats included, $2,500 setup fee"
   },
   {
    "name": "Core White Label",
    "price": "$1,000 a month",
    "includes": "20 seats included, billed annually, $2,500 setup fee"
   },
   {
    "name": "AI Employee White Label",
    "price": "$250 per seat a month",
    "includes": "billed annually, five-seat minimum, 25,000 credits a month, $2,500 setup fee"
   }
  ],
  "plans_source": "summarised from pricing.notes; every plan name and amount appears verbatim in those notes",
  "notes": "(price re-verified 2026-09-05; Teams amounts, credits and setup fees unchanged on 2026-09-30) Teams: Core is $79 per seat a month with 500 credits a month, AI Employee $695 per seat a month with 5,000 credits; both are billed monthly and show a $0 setup fee, footnoted 'waived on prepaid annual'. Enterprise is custom: 25,000 credits a month, five seats included and a $2,500 setup fee. An 'Annual, 25% off' toggle sits above the cards, but the page kept showing the monthly figures when we switched it, so treat the annual price as unpublished until sales confirms it. A White-label tab adds Core White Label at $1,000 a month with 20 seats included, billed annually, and AI Employee White Label at $250 per seat a month billed annually with a five-seat minimum (advertised as 64% off, 'save $445 a seat'), 25,000 credits a month and a $2,500 setup fee on both. The Core card's button says 'Start for free', but the page names no free plan, no free allowance and no end date (re-read 3 October 2026), so treat it as a way to sign up, not as a free tier. History: in August 2026 the page said Core $125 (launch offer $75 for three months) and AI Employee $795 with a warning it would move to $1,000; on 2 September we read $79 and $695 and wrote that the credits were no longer stated and that one plan carried the $2,500 fee — on 5 September the credits are stated per plan and the $2,500 fee sits on Enterprise and the white-label plans, not on Core or AI Employee. On 30 September 2026 the white-label page was still titled around Core White Label at $1,000 a month; the AI Employee white-label rate renders client-side and was not re-read that day, so the $250 figure stands on the 5 September reading.",
  "verified_at": "2026-09-30",
  "source_url": null
 },
 "free_plan": false,
 "free_plan_evidence": null,
 "cost_traps": [
  {
   "id": "per_seat",
   "label": "Per-seat pricing",
   "evidence": "(price re-verified 2026-09-05; Teams amounts, credits and setup fees unchanged on 2026-09-30) Teams: Core is $79 per seat a month with 500 credits a month, AI Employee $695 per seat a month with 5,000 credits; both are billed monthly and show a $0 setup fee, footnoted 'waived on prepaid annual'.",
   "verified_at": "2026-09-30",
   "source_url": null
  },
  {
   "id": "usage_metered",
   "label": "Usage-metered",
   "evidence": "(price re-verified 2026-09-05; Teams amounts, credits and setup fees unchanged on 2026-09-30) Teams: Core is $79 per seat a month with 500 credits a month, AI Employee $695 per seat a month with 5,000 credits; both are billed monthly and show a $0 setup fee, footnoted 'waived on prepaid annual'.",
   "verified_at": "2026-09-30",
   "source_url": null
  }
 ],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "Reply.io or lemlist",
  "why": "Reply.io is mature multichannel sequencing you drive yourself and lemlist leads on deliverability and personalization — Buzz.ai's pitch is the autonomous AI-SDR layer that does the driving for you"
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/buzz-ai.json",
  "review": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/b2b/buzz-ai-review/",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/buzz-ai/",
  "vendor_site": "https://buzz.ai"
 },
 "purchase": {
  "seller": "the vendor",
  "how": "AIBuilder Marketplace does not sell this software. Sign up, start a trial or buy on the vendor's site.",
  "handoff_url": "https://buzz.ai/?red=aibuil",
  "affiliate": true,
  "disclosure": "Where purchase.affiliate is true, purchase.handoff_url is an affiliate link: AIBuilder Marketplace may earn a commission at no extra cost to the buyer. Commission never changes what a record says, and products are not ranked by commission. Where it is false the link is the vendor's plain site."
 },
 "provenance": {
  "research": "hand-researched dossier, read on the vendor's own pages",
  "researched_since": "2026-07",
  "method": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/how-we-review/",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0. Credit 'AIBuilder Marketplace' with a link to https://aibuildermarketplace.com/atlas/.",
  "note": "A rebuild is not a new measurement: pricing.verified_at is the date that matters."
 },
 "cost": {
  "status": "not_yet",
  "engine": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/agents/#cost",
  "rules": null,
  "growth": null
 },
 "unknowns": [
  "Contract terms (cancellation, data export, data location, minimum seats) are not researched as separate fields; pricing.notes mentions them only where the vendor's pricing page does.",
  "No computable price rules yet: cost at a given team size cannot be calculated for this product.",
  "Not tested hands-on by us: what the product does comes from the vendor's pages and our reading of them."
 ],
 "task_evidence": null,
 "open_questions": [
  {
   "question_id": "buzz-ai:cancellation_terms",
   "key": "cancellation_terms",
   "question": "Can a customer cancel at any time, and what happens to an annual plan that is cancelled mid-term?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "buzz-ai:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "buzz-ai:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "buzz-ai:minimum_seats",
   "key": "minimum_seats",
   "question": "Is there a minimum number of seats or users on any plan?",
   "status": "open"
  }
 ],
 "vendor_answers": [],
 "agent_channels": {
  "vendor_mcp": null,
  "agent_checkout": {
   "status": "not_found",
   "detail": "No explicit support for purchases by AI agents on the vendor's own pages.",
   "checked_at": "2026-10-07",
   "method": "homepage, /pricing and the pricing page we cite, read as plain HTML (no JavaScript) and searched for explicit support of purchases by AI agents: Agentic Commerce Protocol, Instant Checkout, Agent Payments Protocol, buy in ChatGPT, agentic checkout"
  }
 },
 "task_scope": {
  "scope": "sales_outreach",
  "label": "Outbound sales outreach (cold email and LinkedIn sequences)",
  "why": "AI-powered outbound platform: prompt it and it finds intent-ready buyers, writes multichannel sequences and books the meetings — per-seat plans with monthly credit allowances and a free start.",
  "source": "our dossier",
  "phrases": [
   "cold email",
   "cold emails",
   "cold outreach",
   "sales outreach",
   "outbound sales",
   "outbound",
   "email sequences",
   "sales sequences",
   "linkedin outreach",
   "linkedin automation",
   "sales engagement",
   "ai sdr"
  ]
 }
}