Peko Two-Tier Margin Split

Peko's pricing splits cleanly into a free tier (unlimited CLI and GitHub Action lint runs, 46 mechanical rules compiled into the binary, nothing leaves the machine) and a paid tier (Pro at $20 monthly for 10 interpretive audits and 326 rules read against code, plus privacy form answers). For agencies, that split is a margin map. Run the free lint on every client build as a loss leader: it costs nothing per run and surfaces findings you can quote on. Reserve the $20 Pro audits for builds where a rejection would cost the client two weeks of delay, then bill the remediation work at your own rate. A single client with three apps under active release can absorb one Pro seat across all three, so the $20 sits inside a retainer rather than on top of it. The trap is selling the lint as the deliverable; the lint is the door, the interpretive audit is the product.