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 "id": "pecan-ai",
 "name": "Pecan AI",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "pecan.ai",
 "category": "Growth & Revenue",
 "task": "AI development, agents & data",
 "summary": "Predictive AI that builds churn, LTV and demand models from your own data and delivers the results into your warehouse or CRM. Priced by prediction batches rather than seats, and quote-only at every tier.",
 "best_for": "data and marketing teams that want churn, LTV or demand predictions running against their own warehouse without hiring data scientists, and can work with an annual commitment quoted on a call",
 "skip_if": "you need to compare prices before you talk to anyone, you only want to see what already happened rather than what is likely to, or a fortnightly prediction cadence is not enough and the entry tier is therefore out",
 "honest_knock": "The pricing page argues instead of quoting. Where the amount would be, it sets out what a data-science team would cost you — $600,000 and up for three or four specialists, and a claim that salaries are 60 to 80% of the lifecycle cost of building this yourself. That may well be true, but it is a comparison to hiring rather than a price, and it means you cannot put Pecan next to anything else until you have been through a sales call. The second thing to catch is the meter. Starter's two prediction batches a month is a fortnightly cadence; any team that wants a weekly refresh is on Team from the first day, whatever its size, and that is a tier decision made by scheduling rather than by headcount.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "quote_only",
  "entry_price": null,
  "entry_price_terms": null,
  "from_price_usd_month": null,
  "plans": [
   {
    "name": "Starter",
    "price": "quoted — talk to sales",
    "includes": "getting your first model live: 2 prediction batches a month, 500M rows of storage, in-app support"
   },
   {
    "name": "Team",
    "price": "quoted — talk to sales",
    "includes": "running predictive across the team: 10 batches a month, 2Bn rows, plus Essential enablement"
   },
   {
    "name": "Business",
    "price": "quoted — talk to sales",
    "includes": "scaling company-wide: custom batch volume, 5Bn rows, plus Pro enablement"
   },
   {
    "name": "Enterprise",
    "price": "quoted",
    "includes": "for special deployment, granular explainability and other requirements outside the three published tiers"
   }
  ],
  "plans_source": "hand-curated from the vendor's pricing page",
  "notes": "(read 2026-08-27 on pecan.ai/pricing, and unchanged on 2026-09-29: the same three quote-only tiers, batch and row meters, SSO split and FAQ) No public price at any tier. Pecan publishes three plans — Starter, Team and Business — and each one carries a Talk to sales button where the number would be, with a fourth enterprise route for special deployment and granular explainability. Billing is annual only and Pecan states there is no setup fee. What the page does publish is the meter, and it is not the one most buyers expect: the tier is set by monthly prediction batches and stored rows, not by seats. Starter gives 2 batches a month and 500M rows, Team 10 batches and 2Bn rows, Business custom batches and 5Bn rows; support runs from in-app only, to in-app plus Essential enablement, to Pro enablement. A batch is one run against a dataset, so two a month is a fortnightly cadence — the number that decides your tier before any conversation about team size.",
  "verified_at": "2026-09-29",
  "source_url": null
 },
 "free_plan": false,
 "free_plan_evidence": null,
 "cost_traps": [
  {
   "id": "quote_only",
   "label": "Quote-only pricing",
   "evidence": "No published price: Starter, Team and Business all route to a Talk to sales button (read 27 Aug 2026)",
   "verified_at": "2026-09-29",
   "source_url": null
  }
 ],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "Databox",
  "why": "the tool people weigh this against when they are really asking whether they need prediction at all — Databox publishes its prices and shows you what happened across 130+ integrations, Pecan quotes every tier and tries to tell you what happens next; the split is reporting versus forecasting, and only one of the two lets you budget before a sales call"
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/pecan-ai.json",
  "review": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/b2b/pecan-ai-review/",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/pecan-ai/",
  "vendor_site": "https://pecan.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://affiliate.pecan.ai/sk9dygon1y77",
  "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": [
  "Pricing status is 'quote_only': no single public entry price.",
  "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": "pecan-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": "pecan-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": "pecan-ai:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "pecan-ai:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "pecan-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"
  }
 }
}