Strategic decisions: pricing, revenue split, open source

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Summary

Section VIII of the business plan identifies 6 key decisions that must be made before launch. These need explicit sign-off from the team.

Acceptance Criteria

• Pricing: $2/$5/$10 tiers validated against Claude Pro $20/mo anchor
• Revenue split: 85% credits / 10% REGEN burn / 5% ops — is 5% ops sufficient?
• Brand: Confirm "Regen for AI" (product) and "Regenerative AI" (category)
• Anthropic: Document current relationship status and warm contacts
• Credit supply: Prioritize which project developers can list more inventory first
• Open source: MCP server stays open source? Moat should be credit supply + on-chain infra, not code

References

These decisions gate Track A launch and Track B pricing.

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Decisions Made (March 1, 2026)

1. Pricing ✅ DECIDED

Tiers updated to: Seedling $2.50/mo, Grove $7/mo, Forest $15/mo. Code and docs updated. Tracking issue created for ongoing pricing optimization.

2. Revenue split ✅ DECIDED

Changed to: 85% credits / 5% REGEN burn / 10% operations. The 10% ops covers Stripe fees (~3%) with room for infrastructure costs at scale. Code, tests, and docs updated. Tracking issue created for ongoing parameter adjustment.

3. Brand ✅ DECIDED

• Project name: Regenerative Compute
• Tool/package name: regen-compute
• Category: Regenerative AI (unchanged)
• All code, docs, package.json, npm name, and references updated.

4. Anthropic relationship — DEFERRED

Leaving for later. No warm contacts yet.

5. Credit supply — REFRAMED

See updated #13. Starting with cheapest credits (balance sheet priority). Credit type selection by subscribers is a future feature. Separate tracking issue created.

6. Open source — OPEN

MCP server stays open source (Apache-2.0) for now. Related question: should repo move from personal GitHub (CShear) to regen-network org? New issue created for team decision.

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Items 1-3 are implemented and committed. Items 4-6 remain open as separate tracking issues.