PricingSub-$500/mo competitive intelligence. Kompyte starts there; Klue/Crayon TCO runs north of $15K.
Three tiers — Solo, Brand Team, Agency — built around the same brief: hourly price scraper, daily Slack delivery at 07:00 local, and full source citations on every line. Pick the tier that matches the watchlist size you actually need.
Three tiers
Pick the watchlist size that matches your team.
Every tier ships the hourly scraper, the daily Slack brief, the EU AI Act disclosure, and source citations on every line. The watchlist size and the launch coverage scale with the team size.
Compared to
The legacy intelligence stack.
Frontbench bundles an hourly scraper, four coverage lenses, and a daily brief into a single subscription. The legacy stack bills per seat, ships multiple single-purpose tools, and forces a multi-week onboarding.
Public competitor rates
What the alternatives actually charge.
- Crayon$1,500 – $2,500/mo
- Klue$1,200 – $2,000/mo
- Prisync + Madgicx$900 – $1,300/mo
- Kompytestarts around $500/mo
- Frontbench · Solo$49/mo
- Frontbench · Brand Team$199/mo
- Frontbench · Agency$449/mo
Public competitor rates as of Q2 2026. Klue and Crayon enterprise TCO including seats and onboarding routinely lands north of $15K/yr.
What the legacy stack forces on you
Where the $15K+ TCO hides.
- Per-seat analyst contractCrayon / Klue force seats
- Multiple single-purpose toolsPrisync + Madgicx + Trendos
- Implementation & onboardingMulti-week for enterprise stacks
- Annual lock-inCommon on $15K+ TCO contracts
Frontbench replaces the analyst seat, not the marketing lead — the human stays in the loop on every shipped recommendation.
What's NOT included
Honesty about the limits.
The brief is only as good as the watchlist and the policy behind it. A few things the public tiers deliberately don't cover, on purpose.
- Vertical-specialised intelligence (pharma, financial-services, regulated industries) — out of scope for the public tiers; quoted on request.
- Historical backfill older than 90 days — not loaded into the brief. Snapshots live in the diff history and stay exportable.
- Self-hosted deployment and BAA / DPA paperwork for healthcare customers — scoped by the owner under a custom contract.
- Embedded card forms, webhook URLs, and per-team SSO — the platform hands you to Stripe Checkout only. No Stripe SDK, no inbound callbacks.
FAQ
Questions to ask before you wire it in.
A five-question sanity check for marketing leads, ops, and the security team who has to approve a new vendor.
Are these tiers really sub-$500/mo?
Solo is $49/mo, Brand Team is $199/mo, Agency is $449/mo. Every tier is a flat monthly fee billed monthly. Kompyte's entry tier starts around $500/mo; Crayon and Klue enterprise TCO regularly lands north of $15K once seats and onboarding are added.What does the Brand Team tier add beyond Solo?
Beyond the 5 watchlist slots and 1 launch coverage product in Solo, Brand Team unlocks 25 watchlist slots, 5 launch coverage products, the second lens beyond pricing (creative + launches + search), multi-user seats, and a shared brand workspace so marketing, ops, and founders all see the same brief each morning.Can I pause or cancel any time?
Yes — every tier is billed monthly with no annual lock-in. Pause from Slack same day and the morning brief stops arriving; the watchlist and history stay exportable. Agency tiers carry a 30-day notice for custom client workspaces.What's NOT included?
Built-for-vertical intelligence (e.g. a dedicated pharma or financial-services view), deep historical backfill older than 90 days, and self-hosted deployment live on the roadmap. Everything in the three published tiers is included end to end; anything else is custom and quoted separately.How is the hourly price scraper scoped?
Every tier pulls the watchlist hourly and diffs against the prior snapshot — pricing only on Solo, all four lenses on Brand Team and Agency. The scraper respects robots.txt and per-platform Terms of Service; sources are dropped the moment a contractual change is published. Every brief line carries a source URL, timestamp, and an EU AI Act disclosure tag.
Pick a tier. First brief lands at 07:00 local.
No analyst seat. No annual lock-in. Cancel from Slack same day. The watchlist pulls its first brief at the next 07:00 local pass.