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    "value": "not_tested",
    "basis": "No explicit observation in the public evidence.",
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    "run_date": "2026-10-21",
    "session_type": "hands_on",
    "what": "Tested by our team on 21 October 2026 on the free Pay As You Go plan, without a card and without connecting a mailbox: Daan created the account and our AI assistant ran the test in Daan's browser. We described a made-up bicycle repair workshop in four fields, with three hard facts (repairs only, no bike sales; open Monday to Friday 09:00 to 17:00; no appointments by phone), and checked what the onboarding built from it.",
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     "The whole onboarding, which built a company profile, an ideal customer profile, an AI team, a knowledge base, website agents, first leads, an email sequence, a content plan and sample content in about two minutes, cost 4 credits in 14 requests (Company Search 7 requests / 2 credits, Content Engine 6 / 2, Sequence 1 / 0). The General page then read 'Monthly credits 4 / 50'.",
     "Of our three facts, the profile kept one ('without the sale of retail bicycles'), blurred one into 'standard weekday business hours' and replaced the third with something we never said: 'By operating as a walk-in facility'. It also set the industry to 'Transportation'.",
     "Without asking, it built a list of 16 real people (facility and operations managers at large companies in Amsterdam) around a partnership idea of its own, and enrolled all 16 in a five-email, AI-personalised sequence. The screen says the sequence 'stays paused until you connect a mailbox and turn on sending'; we connected no mailbox and nothing was sent. We did not record the names.",
     "The content plan, in three funnel stages, promised things we never said: 'Our same-day repair policy explained', 'Success stories: Keeping busy local families mobile' and a 'high-speed repair experience'. Our opening hours and the phone rule appeared nowhere, and the blog draft targeted 'bicycle repair shop' at 22,200 estimated searches a month in the US, for a Dutch audience.",
     "It proposed six AI employees (sales, support, an appointment scheduler and SEO among them) and two chat widgets, for sales and support, each with a ready-made script snippet to paste into a site. With no real website given, the knowledge base reported 'We couldn't import pages from your website this time'.",
     "Right after onboarding a subscription screen opened. On its annual billing tab: Pay As You Go $0 (1 company, 1 seat, 50 credits a month), Entrepreneur $99 a month ($1,188 a year, 2 companies, 2,000 credits), Business $297 a month ($3,564 a year, 10 companies, 10 seats, 9,000 credits) and Enterprise on request. The free plan showed 'Data credits per 5-hour window 0 / 0'."
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     "Regenerating a single blog or LinkedIn draft, and the credits per run",
     "Brand Voice and Brand Images",
     "Whether the email sequence really sends nothing after you connect a mailbox without turning on sending",
     "How the chat widgets do on a real site",
     "What the data credits (0 / 0 on the free plan) unlock"
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    "note": "Findings as written up after the session; no pass/fail per task was scored.",
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     {
      "claim": "\"50 free credits to start\" and \"No credit card required\"",
      "claim_source": "https://parallellabs.app/pricing/",
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      "observed": "The free plan 'Pay As You Go' ($0) showed 'Monthly credits 4 / 50' after onboarding; no card was asked for. The whole onboarding used 4 credits for 14 requests.",
      "observed_on": "2026-10-21",
      "evidence": {
       "label": "Our test observations",
       "url": "https://marketingandsalessoftware.com/parallel-ai-review.html#claim-vs-measured"
      },
      "plan": "Pay As You Go ($0), 1 company, 1 seat, no mailbox connected",
      "comparability": "Same quantity for the 50 credits and the card. The app labels the credits as monthly; we did not see a reset.",
      "status": "confirmed",
      "buying_consequence": "The free plan is enough to see what the onboarding builds (it cost 4 of 50 credits); the cost of later actions is not published, so measure your own work before choosing a paid tier.",
      "buyer_direction": null,
      "claim_changed_on": null
     }
    ],
    "claim_checks_note": "A vendor claim (quoted, with source and read date) set against what we observed in this session on the plan stated. status is confirmed, contradicted, not_comparable, not_testable or out_of_date; it is not a score of the product.",
    "in_catalog": true
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   "question_id": "parallel-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": "parallel-ai:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "parallel-ai:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "parallel-ai:pricing_gap_1",
   "key": "pricing_gap_1",
   "question": "Our price check could not put a number on this part of the cost: Platform credits have no published rate per action, and data credits ($25 for 500 to $175 for 5,000) depend on how many leads you pull. Can you publish the price or the rule?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "parallel-ai:pricing_gap_2",
   "key": "pricing_gap_2",
   "question": "Our price check could not put a number on this part of the cost: Add-ons such as an extra white-label instance ($50) and website pixel identification ($75, $250 or $500 a month) depend on use. Can you publish the price or the rule?",
   "status": "open"
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  "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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}