When to Adopt ninethirty: Only If Clients Already Trade Seasonal Equity Patterns
Should our agency add ninethirty's seasonality screener to a client research retainer, or is the $99.99/month Alpha plan a tool we will pay for and never bill against? Adopt ninethirty only when a paying client has already asked for recurring monthly equity patterns on a named watchlist, and price the work as a fixed-scope audit rather than an open-ended retainer.
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“Should our agency add ninethirty's seasonality screener to a client research retainer, or is the $99.99/month Alpha plan a tool we will pay for and never bill against?”
Adopt ninethirty only when a paying client has already asked for recurring monthly equity patterns on a named watchlist, and price the work as a fixed-scope audit rather than an open-ended retainer.
Agencies buy the Alpha plan on the strength of the heatmap demo, then discover no client asked for seasonal equity analysis and the $99.99/month sits on the books with no retainer attached. The fix is to sell the Seasonal Starter Audit at $1,800 first and only subscribe once a client has signed.
The Alpha plan at $99.99/month gives unlimited saved screens, unlimited backtests, 50 active alerts, and 500 candles of historical data, which is enough throughput to serve several small advisory clients from one agency seat. The tool is purpose-built for equity seasonality, so it earns its place only inside financial advisory, wealth management, or investment research retainers, not as a general research utility. The trade-off is real: the value proposition rests on client belief in seasonal equity patterns, which is contested in academic finance, so the agency is selling a thesis as much as a dataset.
- •The agency already runs research or advisory retainers for retail investors, small RIA practices, or wealth management clients who act on equity timing signals
- •At least one client has asked for month-by-month historical return patterns on a defined ticker watchlist rather than broad market commentary
- •The agency can absorb $99.99/month for the Alpha plan without needing to bill it to a client in the first 90 days
- •Delivery capacity exists for a 16-hour setup on a seasonal pattern report, matching the Seasonal Starter Audit format
- •The client base trades S&P 500, Nasdaq 100, or Dow Jones names, the three indices the tool covers
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