Codex Startup Pricing Lab

A Codex skill that researches a startup's market, compares monetization models, recommends concrete plan and price hypotheses, makes an explicit lifetime-deal decision, and creates a fourteen-day pricing validation roadmap.

Startup Pricing Lab does not guess one magical price. It analyzes how the product delivers value, who buys it, which costs continue, how current competitors charge, and which model is safest to test.

What it does

• Understands a startup from its URL, repository, pricing page, or description
• Researches current official competitor pricing pages
• Compares subscription, annual, one-time, lifetime, per-seat, usage, credit, freemium, and hybrid options
• Scores plausible models from 0 to 100 with deterministic guardrails
• Rejects unsafe uncapped lifetime deals when recurring costs or support continue
• Chooses a primary monetization model and a testable alternative
• Recommends plan tiers, target segments, value metrics, upgrade triggers, trials, annual discounts, and price hypotheses
• Produces a native Markdown pricing report and CSV fourteen-day roadmap
• Never changes a pricing page, billing system, checkout, or customer subscription automatically

Installation

npx --yes codex-startup-pricing-lab@latest

This installs the skill into:

~/.codex/skills/startup-pricing-lab

Restart Codex after installation.

Usage

Give it a startup URL:

Use $startup-pricing-lab to recommend the best pricing model, plans, and prices for https://example.com.

Ask it to evaluate a lifetime deal:

Use $startup-pricing-lab in lifetime-check mode for this product. Tell me whether I should offer monthly, one-time, or lifetime pricing and at what test prices.

Or audit an existing pricing page:

Use $startup-pricing-lab in audit mode on https://example.com/pricing and create a safer fourteen-day pricing experiment roadmap.

Evidence-first pricing

The skill separates:

• product facts
• current competitor pricing
• cost evidence
• real demand or transaction evidence
• assumptions and unknowns

Competitor prices are treated as market anchors, never proof of willingness to pay. Recommended numbers are labeled as hypotheses until tested with real buyers and transactions.

Output

outputs/startup-pricing-scored.json
outputs/startup-pricing-report.md
outputs/startup-pricing-roadmap.csv

The Markdown report opens directly in Codex and renders on GitHub. The CSV roadmap explains what to test each day, with a metric and decision rule.

Safety

The skill uses public information and user-supplied inputs. It does not access private billing data, change Stripe products, update prices, contact customers, launch experiments, or publish pricing automatically.

Manual installation

git clone https://github.com/Kappaemme-git/codex-startup-pricing-lab.git
mkdir -p ~/.codex/skills
cp -R codex-startup-pricing-lab/startup-pricing-lab ~/.codex/skills/startup-pricing-lab

Restart Codex after installation.

License

MIT