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 "schema_version": "1.0",
 "id": "expandi",
 "name": "Expandi",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "expandi.io",
 "category": "Sales & CRM",
 "task": "Sales outreach, leads & CRM",
 "summary": "LinkedIn and email outreach automation for sales teams and agencies — smart limits, warm-up and multi-account management.",
 "best_for": "sales teams and agencies running LinkedIn (and email) outreach at scale who want smart sending limits, warm-up and multi-account management",
 "skip_if": "you send occasional connection requests (LinkedIn's native tools suffice), or you're uneasy about automation against LinkedIn's terms of service",
 "honest_knock": "There is no free tier and no cheap entry — Expandi starts at $99 a month per seat, and the friendlier $79 assumes annual commitment. It's also LinkedIn automation, which sits in a grey zone against LinkedIn's own terms: powerful for outreach, but a platform-risk you own.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "public",
  "entry_price": "$99",
  "entry_price_terms": "Business · per month, month-to-month",
  "from_price_usd_month": 99.0,
  "plans": null,
  "plans_source": null,
  "notes": "(re-verified 2026-08-17 and 2026-10-07) 7-day free trial, no free plan. Business is $99 per month month-to-month; paying a year up front takes 20% off, $79 a month equivalent. The same page also calls this two months free; on its own figures it is $948 a year against $1,188, a saving of $240, which is closer to two and a half months of the $99 fee than two. Pricing is per seat and Expandi states that the discount grows with the number of seats you buy, so a multi-seat agency quote is not simply the seat price multiplied. Higher tiers add role and permission management and centralised billing. Taxes vary by country and are added on top.",
  "verified_at": "2026-10-07",
  "source_url": null
 },
 "free_plan": false,
 "free_plan_evidence": null,
 "cost_traps": [
  {
   "id": "per_seat",
   "label": "Per-seat pricing",
   "evidence": "There is no free tier and no cheap entry — Expandi starts at $99 a month per seat, and the friendlier $79 assumes annual commitment.",
   "verified_at": "2026-10-07",
   "source_url": null
  },
  {
   "id": "annual_lock",
   "label": "Annual commitment",
   "evidence": "There is no free tier and no cheap entry — Expandi starts at $99 a month per seat, and the friendlier $79 assumes annual commitment.",
   "verified_at": "2026-10-07",
   "source_url": null
  }
 ],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "lemlist",
  "why": "lemlist is the multichannel outreach all-rounder with a big template community; Expandi is the LinkedIn-automation specialist — sharper for that channel, no free tier, and the usual platform risk"
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/expandi.json",
  "review": "https://marketingandsalessoftware.com/expandi-review.html",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/expandi/",
  "vendor_site": "https://expandi.io"
 },
 "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://expandi.io/?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": [
  "Plan-by-plan prices are not structured in this record yet; pricing.notes has the full text.",
  "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": "expandi: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": "expandi:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "expandi:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "expandi: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": "LinkedIn and email outreach automation for sales teams and agencies — smart limits, warm-up and multi-account management.",
  "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"
  ]
 }
}