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 "id": "seamless-ai",
 "name": "Seamless.ai",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "seamless.ai",
 "category": "Growth & Revenue",
 "task": "Sales outreach, leads & CRM",
 "summary": "B2B contact database with AI list-building, plus an MCP server so Claude or ChatGPT can run the searching and enrichment. Nothing above the free plan (1 user, 50 credits) carries a published price; the only quantity their FAQ names is a Pro floor of 10,000 annual credits. Independent tests put deliverability near 74%, and contracts auto-renew with 30-60 days' notice to cancel.",
 "best_for": "teams that want a huge real-time contact database and AI list-building for less than ZoomInfo, and can tolerate cleaning the data",
 "skip_if": "data accuracy is your top priority (ZoomInfo bounces far less), or you want simple no-contract pricing — the bounce rates and auto-renewal bite",
 "honest_knock": "Data accuracy is the recurring complaint — independent tests put email deliverability around 74% (20–30% bounce) versus ZoomInfo's ~2–3%, so real cost per usable contact climbs. The buying experience is the other weak spot: sales-led, auto-renew with 30–60 day written cancellation, and reports of charges after a 'confirmed' cancellation.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "quote_only",
  "entry_price": null,
  "entry_price_terms": null,
  "from_price_usd_month": null,
  "plans": [
   {
    "name": "Free",
    "price": "no published price",
    "includes": "50 Universal Credits that do not replenish"
   },
   {
    "name": "Basic",
    "price": "no published price",
    "includes": "250 Universal Credits a month, refreshing on contract date"
   },
   {
    "name": "Pro",
    "price": "no published price",
    "includes": "10,000 Universal Credits a month, refreshing on contract date"
   }
  ],
  "plans_source": "summarised from pricing.notes; every plan name and amount appears verbatim in those notes",
  "notes": "(read 2026-09-30 on seamless.ai/pricing, seamless.ai/pricing-inquiry, Seamless's help centre and seamless.ai/llms.txt) The pricing page no longer shows plans: seamless.ai/pricing now forwards the browser to seamless.ai/pricing-inquiry, a demo-request form headed 'Perfect Pricing for Startups to the Fortune 500' that offers special pricing for unlimited users, bulk credits, prospector, job changes, buyer intent and enrichment, and carries no amount, no plan table and no FAQ. Still no published price above the free plan, in a fifth reading. Seamless's help centre now states the allowances: Free is 50 Universal Credits that do not replenish; a Basic licence gets 250 Universal Credits a month and a Pro licence 10,000 a month, both refreshing on the contract date; bulk pool credits are bought up front and do not replenish. Legacy Pro accounts created before 1 April 2026 keep 1,000 credits a day, no longer sold. Researching a contact costs 1 credit for the whole profile, a Data Enrich row 1, an Autopilot contact 1, and an AI Assistant interaction or AI-written message 0.2. Buyer Intent runs on separate Intent Topics, not credits. Credit Back Protection refunds the credit when Seamless's own check flags an email as invalid, but not for soft bounces, role addresses like info@, or phone numbers. Until 7 September the pricing page's FAQ said Pro starts at 10,000 annual credits; the help article says 10,000 a month, so ask which one your quote uses. Third-party guides report an entry around $147 a month for roughly 250 credits; that matches the Basic allowance, but the dollar figure is not Seamless's number.",
  "verified_at": "2026-09-30",
  "source_url": "https://seamless.ai/pricing",
  "schema_offer": null,
  "source_quotes": null
 },
 "free_plan": true,
 "free_plan_evidence": "Still no published price above the free plan, in a fifth reading.",
 "cost_traps": [
  {
   "id": "quote_only",
   "label": "Quote-only pricing",
   "evidence": "No published price above the free plan; seamless.ai/pricing forwards to a demo-request form (pricing-inquiry) with no amounts, fifth confirmed reading (read 30 Sep 2026); help centre: Basic 250 and Pro 10,000 Universal Credits a month",
   "verified_at": "2026-09-30",
   "source_url": "https://seamless.ai/pricing"
  },
  {
   "id": "usage_metered",
   "label": "Usage-metered",
   "evidence": "(read 2026-09-30 on seamless.ai/pricing, seamless.ai/pricing-inquiry, Seamless's help centre and seamless.ai/llms.txt) The pricing page no longer shows plans: seamless.ai/pricing now forwards the browser to seamless.ai/pricing-inquiry, a demo-request form headed 'Perfect Pricing for Startups to the Fortune 500' that offers special pricing for unlimited users, bulk credits, prospector, job changes, buyer intent and enrichment, and carries no amount, no plan table and no FAQ.",
   "verified_at": "2026-09-30",
   "source_url": "https://seamless.ai/pricing"
  }
 ],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "ZoomInfo or Apollo",
  "why": "the more accurate and the cheaper data tools"
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/seamless-ai.json",
  "review": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/b2b/seamless-ai-review/",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/seamless-ai/",
  "vendor_site": "https://seamless.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://get.seamless.ai/gleubirgjgj8",
  "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.",
  "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"
 },
 "status_page": null,
 "task_evidence": null,
 "open_questions": [
  {
   "question_id": "seamless-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": "seamless-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": "seamless-ai:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "seamless-ai:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "seamless-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": {
   "what": "Hosted server at mcp.seamless.ai/mcp: 54 tools across 11 domains — contact and company search, research and enrichment, lists, saved searches, campaigns, tasks, templates, email drafts and sends, call logging and the activity feed — plus 7 read-only seamless:// resources for credit balance, templates and email accounts. Every tool carries a read, write or destructive label so the client can ask before anything with side effects runs. OAuth 2.1, or an API key for clients without it.",
   "plan": "Split by licence, not by price: search, research, lists, saved searches and the credit/user lookups are open to all users; campaigns, tasks, templates, email, calls, activity and Connect config need a Connect licence, with campaigns and tasks needing Connect (full). MCP also has to be switched on for the account. No price for the MCP server itself is published.",
   "status": "Live",
   "source": "https://docs.seamless.ai/mcp-docs",
   "checked": "2026-07-28",
   "note": "The vendor's own MCP server, from our MCP research; it works with your own account at the vendor."
  },
  "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": "b2b_contact_data",
  "label": "B2B contact data and enrichment",
  "why": "B2B contact database with AI list-building, plus an MCP server so Claude or ChatGPT can run the searching and enrichment.",
  "source": "our dossier",
  "phrases": [
   "contact data",
   "b2b data",
   "b2b contact data",
   "lead database",
   "contact database",
   "email finder",
   "find emails",
   "prospect list",
   "prospect lists",
   "lead lists",
   "data enrichment",
   "contact enrichment",
   "sales intelligence"
  ]
 }
}