The Standup Retainer Ladder

The Standup's pricing makes the deployment question a packaging question, not a tooling question. The Free tier already includes the daily 07:40 digest, the full searchable archive, and every release, advisory and outage, so clients can self-serve the raw feed for $0. Membership costs $5 per month and buys the same coverage plus the polling, storage and sending that keep it running, with no ads. An agency cannot charge a retainer for access to either tier. What it can charge for is the work layered on top: mapping a client's vendors and repositories into a tracked list, filtering the digest to what actually touches their stack, and translating patch-or-pin alerts into a decision the client can act on. The Standup Stack Audit prices that first pass at $1,800 across roughly 16 hours of setup. The ladder only holds when the recurring fee covers ongoing triage, not the subscription itself.