AI search readiness

Your pricing, readable by the machines that recommend you

Your next customer asks an AI what you cost, and right now it's guessing. pricing.md is the machine-readable twin of your pricing page, engineered by pricing scientists so ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini quote you correctly.

85% of AI mentions are third-party <12 of 7,000 publish one 6× higher AI-search conversion
yourdomain.com/pricing.md machine-readable
---
product: Acme Analytics
currency: USD
updated: 2026-06-12
---

## Plan: Pro
price: $499/month
billed: monthly or annual (-20%)
seats: up to 10 included

### Does NOT include
- API access (see Enterprise)
- SSO / SAML

## Add-on: extra seats
price: $29/seat/month
Why now

Your next customer might be an AI agent

And it's already answering pricing questions about you, from whatever it scraped.

85%

of brand mentions in AI search come from third-party sources you don't control.

AirOps, 2026

higher conversion from AI search traffic vs. Google search.

Webflow, 2026

<12

of 7,000 companies in our database publish a structured pricing.md.

Valueships audit, 2026

6 mo.

Stripe's Agentic Commerce Protocol already in production with OpenAI.

Stripe, 2026

"Getting ingestion-ready product data is what determines whether you show up reliably across agent surfaces."

Stripe
The problem

What AI says about your pricing today, and you can't see any of it

Stale or invented prices

Models quote prices retired months ago, or invent plans that never existed.

Wrong plan for the buyer

An agency persona gets recommended your solo tier. The buyer trusts the AI, not your page.

Add-ons invisible

Anything not in clean HTML (add-ons, usage extensions, API fees) simply doesn't exist for an LLM.

"Contact sales" = dropped

Agents skip sales-gated tiers. No price anchor means no shortlist slot.

What it is

One file. Your pricing page, for machines.

A structured markdown file published at yourdomain.com/pricing.md: your complete pricing in the format LLMs parse most reliably.

Plans, limits, billing periods, add-ons, FAQ and honest comparisons, engineered so a model answering "what does your Pro plan cost?" cannot reasonably get it wrong.

For humans

Your pricing page

Beautiful, interactive, JavaScript-rendered, and hard for an agent to read.

+

For machines

pricing.md

Clean, authoritative, always current. The source agents quote from.

Why you can't DIY this

Pricing scientists + a purpose-built model. Converters have neither.

On your own Three ways it breaks

HTML to MD converters 1 / 10

On our 10-point engineering matrix. Wide tables truncate, gated tiers vanish, and nothing says what plans don't include, which is where hallucinations are born.

ChatGPT prompts no science

Persona-plan mapping, value metrics, and what must never be published (your WTP, costs, discount floor). That's judgment, not formatting.

Auto-generated AI files net harm

One audited company broadcast 2018 promo prices and a private email to every LLM via a plugin-generated llms.txt. Their machine-readable layer worked against them.

With Valueships The Valueships stack

Expertise layer human

150+ pricing projects. Our 9-element SaaS Pricing Canvas: 6 elements engineered into your file, 3 kept internal so competitors learn nothing. Ships with a 3-axis audit vs. Auth0, Resend and your category.

Technology layer machine

Our EU-grant-funded extraction model (led by Łukasz Sobański) reads pricing pages into our structured schema. The machine extracts; the consultants add what no model can. Subscribers get every improvement first.

Converters have technology and no pricing knowledge. Consultants have knowledge and no pipeline. We have both, plus a 7,000-company benchmark database.

Proof

: first mover in social listening, top of our 12-file audit

Every pricing.md ships with this audit: your file, scored against the best public references and your own category peers.

Auth0

Published pricing.md, the best public reference to date.

18.0 / 30

Resend

Minimalist pricing.md for volume-based email pricing.

17.0 / 30

Our deployment

First mover in all of social listening, ahead of Mention, Brandwatch & Meltwater.

25.5 / 30 · benchmark
File auditedLLM readabilityPricing scienceSaaS UXTotal / 30
9.08.58.025.5
Auth0, published pricing.md8.05.05.018.0
Resend, published pricing.md7.04.06.017.0
Vercel, agent-resources (analog)8.03.04.015.0
Typical HTML page, no pricing.md3.03.05.011.0
Generic HTML to MD converter4.01.02.07.0
What you get

A complete package: built, deployed, and measured

01

pricing.md

Your complete pricing, Canvas-engineered, verified against your live page on delivery day.

02

llms.txt

Curated discovery file pointing AI tools to your authoritative sources, pricing first.

03

Deployment guide

Step-by-step for your dev team, tailored to your stack. Typical effort: 30-60 minutes.

04

Edit guide

For your content team: what to change safely when prices move, what to send to us.

05

Monitoring guide

For marketing: how to read test results and track AI answers continuously.

06

Baseline + post-deploy test

18 prompts × 4 models, run before launch and at week 8. Improvement measured, not claimed.

07

3-axis audit

Independent scoring of your file vs. Auth0, Resend, and your category peers.

Investment

Two years of being permanently AI-correct

Less than most companies spend on a single trade-show banner, for the channel where buying decisions are increasingly made.

What it costs

Setup$1,500
One-off. Everything in the package, deployed, verified, measured.
Subscription$3,400
24 months. Updates, monitoring & standard changes handled.
All-in, 2 years$4,900

Risk-free start: if AI already answers about your pricing accurately and completely, you keep your $1,500.

The subscription includes

  • Unlimited pricing updates. New tier, price increase, new add-on: tell us, we update the file, your team redeploys in minutes.
  • Every technology change handled. Crawler behavior, llms.txt conventions, new agent surfaces, schema standards. Your file stays current.
  • Change notes with every update. What changed, why, and what it means for how AI answers about you.
  • Ongoing AI answer monitoring. We re-test how the four major models quote you and flag drift before your buyers hear it.
  • Early access. As our extraction model matures, subscribers get every improvement first.
How it runs

From kickoff to measured result in 8 weeks

Week 1

Kickoff + baseline

Pricing access, persona/JTBD input, baseline test runs before anything ships.

Week 2

We build

Extraction, Canvas layer, file engineering and the 3-axis audit. Full package delivered.

Week 2-3

You deploy

Your dev team ships in 30-60 min; we verify within 48 hours.

Week 8

Measure

Post-deploy test vs. baseline: accuracy, hallucination rate, persona match, citation share.

Ongoing

Subscription

Updates, monitoring and change notes. You track none of it.