AccessLumens

AccessLumens charges only when the WCAG 2.2 score improves, so agencies can quote remediation work without absorbing the risk of a failed repair. The $5 single scan and $29 ten-pack let a delivery team test the tool on one client backlog before committing to a retainer. That shifts PDF accessibility from a one-off project into a measurable monthly line item.

AccessLumens prices the diagnostic separately from the repair: a single web or PDF report costs $5, a 10-pack costs $29 with credits valid 6 months, and the Free tier gives unlimited scans with no card. Repairs only bill when the WCAG 2.2 score improves, so the agency's cost on a failed document is zero. The ladder works like this: run the free scan to size the client's backlog, buy the $29 pack to produce ten paid reports across a prospect list, then quote remediation inside a retainer. An agency auditing a 40-document procurement archive spends $29 on credits, identifies which files actually improve, and bills the repair work at its own rate. The margin sits in the gap between $2.90 per report and whatever the client pays per remediated document. Never quote a flat per-PDF fee before the free scan tells you how many files the tool can actually fix.

The Commodity Perception Gap is the distance between what a document automation deployment actually does for a client and what the client believes they are buying. Extraction, validation, and routing are easy to describe as features, so procurement teams price them like software seats. The gap closes only when the agency attaches a number the client already tracks: hours removed from a monthly close, days cut from contract turnaround, error rates on invoice intake. Superdocu reports administrative overhead reductions of up to 30 hours per month on document collection alone, which is the kind of figure that survives a budget review. Pair that evidence with adjacent work such as workflow integration or compliance review and the engagement reads as a capability rather than a subscription. Agencies that skip the measurement step hand the client a reason to shop the tool directly, and the retainer becomes a license resale with no defensible margin.

Extraction Confidence Threshold is the practice of setting a numeric confidence floor above which a document field is auto-posted and below which it routes to a human reviewer. The framework matters because document automation fails quietly: a 92% accurate extractor on 10,000 invoices produces 800 wrong entries that surface as client escalations, not as tool errors. Agencies that publish the threshold in the retainer scope convert an accuracy claim into a governed process, and they price the review lane as a line item rather than absorbing it. Instabase scores extractions with confidence values so teams can route low-certainty fields to review, while Rossum and Ephesoft expose similar validation queues for invoice and claims work. A practical starting point is a 0.90 floor on monetary fields and 0.75 on dates, revisited quarterly against the client's own error tolerance.

Adopt AccessLumens when you can batch client PDFs into 10-Pack credits at $29 and pass the pay-only-if-improved model through to clients, but only if you staff manual review for reading order and table structure.

Model the exception path first, then commit to the tool only if its confidence scoring, human-review queue, and per-document cost still work at your worst-case exception rate.

IF your agency already sells accessibility audits and needs a repair tool to close the loop, THEN start on the $5 Single Scan (Web + PDF) to validate AccessLumens output on one real client document before committing to the $29 10-Pack, which holds 10 report credits valid 6 months and can be spent on websites, PDFs, or both. IF the client's backlog is mostly scanned or complex-table PDFs, THEN defer, because AccessLumens flags reading order and table structure for manual review rather than automating them, so your delivery hours stay high.

A productized retainer where agencies scan client websites and PDFs with AccessLumens, repair documents that score improvements, and bill monthly for ongoing WCAG 2.2 compliance monitoring. The pay-only-if-improved model removes the client's upfront cost objection.