Updated idea with Revenue Model section (Plan of Record) based on agreed tiered subscription model with dual caps (pre-processing vs draft submissions).

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 - **Inventory-aware** — detects duplicates and helps maintain accurate quantities.
 - **Hybrid mobile + desktop workflow** designed for real-world bulk capture scenarios.

+## Revenue Model (Plan of Record)
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+**Model Type:** Tiered subscription (Free / Bronze / Silver / Gold) with dual monthly usage caps.
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+**Core Principle:** Charge when the AI performs the heaviest work — initial cataloging and draft creation.
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+**Two-Cap Structure (per tier):**
+- **Early ID / Pre-processing** (higher cap): Segmentation, identification, and initial analysis of uploaded photos. This produces a superset of what the user ultimately decides to list.
+- **Draft Submissions** (lower cap): Actual creation of structured, priced drafts. This is the primary billable event.
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+**Key Rules:**
+- Publishing a draft to eBay is free.
+- Any edits to previously created drafts are free.
+- All plans require email validation to reduce multi-account abuse.
+- Bulk export of clean structured data is restricted or degraded for non-published drafts (anti-gaming control).
+- Tier positioning will align with eBay’s Store subscription levels (Starter/Basic/Premium/Anchor) for natural customer segmentation.
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+**Pricing:** Final numbers and exact allowances are TBD pending COGS analysis (primarily vision model inference costs). The model will use blocks of draft submissions within subscription tiers rather than pure usage-based or unlimited top-tier plans.
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+This is the current Plan of Record.
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 ## State of This Idea

 `in progress`
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 - **Technical**: Vision model accuracy on obscure industrial parts; maintaining fresh, reliable sold-price data at scale; eBay API rate limits and policy compliance.
 - **Market**: Seller trust in AI-generated pricing and descriptions; competition from eBay’s own future AI tools.
- **Regulatory**: eBay API terms of service and automation policies; data privacy considerations when storing user photos and inventory data.
+- **Regulatory**: eBay API terms of service and automation policies; data privacy considerations when storing user photos and inventory data.
+- **Business Model**: Risk of users extracting research value without triggering draft submissions; managing the gap between pre-processing and actual submissions without creating poor user experience.