Pricing Model Change Kit
Changing the basis of charging is a migration, not an announcement — backtest it on your own invoices before anyone hears the word "new".
What it is
The hardest pricing move there is: not what you charge, but what you charge for. Diagnoses where the basis of charging punishes you for working well, backtests the replacement on your own invoice history until every winner and loser is named, then designs the migration — grandfathering with an expiry, a capped increase, the top accounts handled personally — and the message per band, closing with the reversal criteria written before launch. For founders, agency owners and service firms whose pricing was set by an early customer and never revisited.
What you receive
a change in the basis of your charging that survives contact with your existing customers — the current model diagnosed at the seam where effort and payment part, the new model backtested on last year's invoices until every winner and loser is named, a migration with dated grandfathering, a capped increase and a hand-held segment, the message written per band with its objection answers, and the reversal criteria, watch period and churn attribution set before the first letter
Delivered as a single, complete .md skill file — open it, paste it into any capable chat model, and work. No installation, no account with anyone but us.
Supported models
- Claude (Opus/Sonnet)
- ChatGPT (GPT-4o/5)
- Gemini
- any capable chat model
People reach for it when
- “how to move clients from hourly billing to fixed monthly fee”
- “changing from per seat pricing to usage based without losing customers”
- “should I grandfather existing customers on the old pricing”
- “how to tell existing clients we are changing how we charge”
- “migrate existing customers to a new pricing model plan”
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