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  "name": "Navattic or Reprise",
  "why": "the direct interactive-demo peers — compare the visitor-identification allowance at your tier, since that is what you are really buying"
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  "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."
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  "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.",
  "Not tested hands-on by us: what the product does comes from the vendor's pages and our reading of them."
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   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
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   "key": "pricing_gap_3",
   "question": "Our price check could not put a number on this part of the cost: Premium's price for seats beyond 10 is not in our notes. Can you publish the price or the rule?",
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   "what": "Server over interactive demos: read demo analytics — views, unique visitors, session duration, CTA clicks, completion rate — list engaged accounts and captured leads, browse the demo library across workspaces, and list AI voices. Every tool is scoped to the data your own account can see.",
   "plan": "Their docs answer it directly: \"MCP is available on Starter plan and above.\" Starter is their cheapest paid plan, so the Free plan is left out; their pricing page lists Storylane MCP under Starter. The same page also discusses ChatGPT's own account tiers for custom connectors — those are separate from Storylane's plans.",
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   "source": "https://docs.storylane.io/integrations-demo-suite/integrations-and-data-flow/mcp",
   "checked": "2026-07-28",
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   "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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