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 "id": "expertise-ai",
 "name": "Expertise AI",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "expertise.ai",
 "category": "IT & Productivity",
 "task": "Sales outreach, leads & CRM",
 "summary": "AI sales agent for B2B websites. Replaces a static chatbot with a live, RAG-grounded agent that holds buying conversations, qualifies visitors and routes them to reps or calendar slots — HubSpot-first, with visitor intelligence.",
 "best_for": "B2B software teams (especially HubSpot-first) that want a live AI sales agent to qualify website visitors, hold buying conversations and route leads to reps",
 "skip_if": "you're not running B2B demand-gen through a CRM like HubSpot, or a simpler support chatbot covers your needs at a fraction of the Business-tier cost",
 "honest_knock": "The honest catch is that you can no longer see what this costs. On 3 September 2026 the page still had a ladder: a Free Preview capped at 10 conversations, then Business at $2,000/mo, the $500 Growth tier having been withdrawn in August. By 1 October every amount was gone, the free preview with it, and all three tiers now end in 'Book a demo'. So the price is whatever the call produces, and the only public yardstick is the old $2,000 a month. It's also a RAG agent, so it's only as good as the docs you feed it: give it thin content and it can answer buyers confidently but wrong. Strong for HubSpot-centric B2B teams that are ready to buy through sales; hard to evaluate on your own.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "quote_only",
  "entry_price": null,
  "entry_price_terms": null,
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  "plans": null,
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  "notes": "Quote-only since our October reading. Re-read 7 October 2026 on expertise.ai/pricing: the page no longer shows a single amount. Three tiers, each behind a 'Book a demo' button: Premier (Sales Agent, CX Agent and Custom Agents, 'for teams ready to move from experimentation to real, repeatable AI workflows'), Enterprise (everything in Premier plus dedicated infrastructure or a VPS, open-weight model support and private deployment options) and Unlimited (everything in Enterprise plus unlimited usage, forward-deployed engineers and data residency). The FAQ says pricing is based on your workflows, integrations, infrastructure and deployment requirements. The Free Preview is gone from the page, and so are the separately priced booking system and Expertise Assistant. Our 1 September capture still carried the old ladder; our 1 October capture had no amounts at all. The last ladder Expertise AI published itself, read 3 September 2026: Free Preview at no cost (1 AI agent, 10 conversations, up to 50 training materials); Business at $2,000/mo on both monthly and yearly billing, with conversations for websites up to 50,000 monthly visitors, up to 500 training materials, visitor intelligence, proactive live chat and 2-way sync in HubSpot, 3 playbooks, a webhook, implementation by their team, and Voice AI with 300 minutes a month and $0.25 per minute after that; Enterprise on quote. Before that, in July, there was a Growth tier at $500/mo and Business was $1,250. The booking system was free or $30/mo ($24 billed yearly) and the Expertise Assistant free or $50/mo per user ($40 billed yearly). Treat those figures as the yardstick to hold a quote against, not as a current offer. Re-read 15 October 2026: still no amount on the page, the same three tiers behind 'Book a demo', no free preview; the FAQ now adds that Unlimited means 'there is no credit limit on your plan' and that every plan includes the Sales, CX and Custom Agents.",
  "verified_at": "2026-10-15",
  "source_url": null,
  "schema_offer": null,
  "source_quotes": null,
  "recent_change": null,
  "price_history": null
 },
 "free_plan": false,
 "free_plan_evidence": null,
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  {
   "id": "quote_only",
   "label": "Quote-only pricing",
   "evidence": "No published price: Premier, Enterprise and Unlimited all route to Book a demo (read 7 and 15 Oct 2026); the last published Business rate was $2,000/mo (3 Sep 2026)",
   "verified_at": "2026-10-15",
   "source_url": null
  },
  {
   "id": "per_seat",
   "label": "Per-seat pricing",
   "evidence": "The booking system was free or $30/mo ($24 billed yearly) and the Expertise Assistant free or $50/mo per user ($40 billed yearly).",
   "verified_at": "2026-10-15",
   "source_url": null
  },
  {
   "id": "usage_metered",
   "label": "Usage-metered",
   "evidence": "The last ladder Expertise AI published itself, read 3 September 2026: Free Preview at no cost (1 AI agent, 10 conversations, up to 50 training materials); Business at $2,000/mo on both monthly and yearly billing, with conversations for websites up to 50,000 monthly visitors, up to 500 training materials, visitor intelligence, proactive live chat and 2-way sync in HubSpot, 3 playbooks, a webhook, implementation by their team, and Voice AI with 300 minutes a month and $0.25 per minute after that; Enterprise on quote.",
   "verified_at": "2026-10-15",
   "source_url": null
  }
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 "compare_with": {
  "name": "Intercom Fin or Qualified",
  "why": "close conversational-sales/AI-agent platforms — Expertise AI leans HubSpot-first B2B; compare on visitor-intelligence features and tier pricing"
 },
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  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/expertise-ai.json",
  "review": "https://officesoftwaremarketplace.com/expertise-ai-review.html",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/expertise-ai/",
  "vendor_site": "https://expertise.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://expertiseai.partnerlinks.io/e2k8ggh9klcg",
  "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."
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  "status": "not_yet",
  "engine": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/agents/#cost",
  "rules": null,
  "growth": null
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 "unknowns": [
  "Pricing status is 'quote_only': no single public entry price.",
  "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.",
  "Being verified: free trial and refund terms are not yet matched to a verbatim line on the vendor's own pages. Not matched does not mean there is none.",
  "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."
 ],
 "verification": {
  "price": "read",
  "free_trial": "being_verified",
  "refund": "being_verified"
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 "status_page": null,
 "task_evidence": null,
 "open_questions": [
  {
   "question_id": "expertise-ai:public_price",
   "key": "public_price",
   "question": "Can you publish a price, or a starting price, for the plans that are quote-only?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "expertise-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": "expertise-ai:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "expertise-ai:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "expertise-ai:minimum_seats",
   "key": "minimum_seats",
   "question": "Is there a minimum number of seats or users on any plan?",
   "status": "open"
  }
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 "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"
  }
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}