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Scoopkit: Buy vs Skip (AI News Deduplication for Client Dashboards)

IF your agency delivers AI-industry trend monitoring to clients and needs one structured event per story rather than three near-identical headlines, THEN start on the Free tier ($0/month, 100 requests/day, 45-day archive) to validate clustering quality against the 10-category/57-subcategory taxonomy before committing. IF validation passes and client volume exceeds 100 requests/day or needs history beyond 45 days, THEN move to Pro at $49/month for 10k requests/day, structured fields, search, webhooks, and a 12-month archive. IF you need custom limits or archive depth beyond 12 months, Enterprise is contact-sales only, so budget for a procurement cycle rather than a self-serve upgrade.

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Trend Signal Monitoring
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Scoopkit: Buy vs Skip (AI News Deduplication for Client Dashboards)

“IF your agency delivers AI-industry trend monitoring to clients and needs one structured event per story rather than three near-identical headlines, THEN start on the Free tier ($0/month, 100 requests/day, 45-day archive) to validate clustering quality against the 10-category/57-subcategory taxonomy before committing. IF validation passes and client volume exceeds 100 requests/day or needs history beyond 45 days, THEN move to Pro at $49/month for 10k requests/day, structured fields, search, webhooks, and a 12-month archive. IF you need custom limits or archive depth beyond 12 months, Enterprise is contact-sales only, so budget for a procurement cycle rather than a self-serve upgrade.”

When is it the right choice?
  • Your agency already sells AI-industry monitoring or digest retainers and the client's coverage area sits inside Scoopkit's AI-only scope, so the 10-category/57-subcategory taxonomy maps to deliverables you already bill for.
  • Client dashboards or agent workflows need one event record per story (event_id, headline, primary_category, article_count, reported_at) instead of raw article lists, and the 10-minute polling cadence matches the freshness the client expects.
  • Delivery runs through webhooks or the MCP server into a CMS, Notion workspace, or agent pipeline, which the Pro tier at $49/month covers alongside 10k requests/day and a 12-month archive.
  • The engagement is small-to-medium: a single client base or a handful of accounts that fits inside 10k requests/day, making the $49/month Pro line a direct cost against retainer revenue.
  • You want a low-risk proof before productizing: the Free tier at $0/month with 100 requests/day and a 45-day archive lets you test clustering on real client queries without a paid commitment.
When should you skip it?
  • The client needs general news, not AI-industry coverage, because Scoopkit's pipeline is narrowly focused on AI headlines and will not surface the broader market signals those accounts pay for.
  • Projected request volume across all client accounts exceeds 10k requests/day, since the next step up is Enterprise at contact-sales pricing with custom limits, not a published self-serve tier.
  • The deliverable depends on archive history older than 12 months, because Pro caps the archive at 12 months and only Enterprise offers custom archive depth.
  • Your agency's monitoring work is visual or page-level change detection rather than headline clustering, which is a different job than what Scoopkit's embedding-similarity and entity-overlap clustering produces.
  • You need guaranteed throughput or contractual SLAs at the $49/month price point, since Enterprise is the only tier with custom limits and it requires a direct sales conversation.
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