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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.",
  "No computable price rules yet: cost at a given team size cannot be calculated for this product."
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     "A sub-task added through the task details sat indented under its parent, which then showed a '0/1' counter. A section 'Later' came from the project menu with its own Add task.",
     "A completed task disappeared from the list and came back struck through under Display > Completed tasks; the project counter showed 4 open tasks.",
     "From the fourth project the sidebar showed 'USED: 4/5', then 'USED: 5/5'.",
     "The sixth project was not created. The attempt went straight to 'Try Pro for free': yearly billing at €5/month ('SAVE €24'), 'Due today (7 days free) €0' and 'Due 27 Oct 2026 €60/year', for 300 projects and 150 filter views. The projects page then said '5 projects' with 'Need more projects? ... Upgrade'.",
     "The 'Try Pro for free' window also appeared once, unasked, while creating the very first project."
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     "The monthly price of Pro (we only saw yearly billing: €5 a month, €60 a year)",
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   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
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   "what": "First-party server at ai.todoist.net/mcp, plus a Todoist plugin that wires up the configuration for you.",
   "plan": "Not stated for Todoist itself; their guide does note that Claude Code requires a paid Claude plan.",
   "status": "Live",
   "source": "https://www.todoist.com/help/todoist/todoist-and-ai/use-todoist-in-claude-code-b1USJ4HB3",
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