PRICING
Get an analyst on your open AI decisions.
Backed by the field's experience.
€99/mo for Counsel on every decision you bring. 14 days free, no card. One price. No slots. No math.
One monthly edition: what AI puts on your table, sorted by department, chosen for what you will have to decide. Thousands read, a dozen kept — and we name what we refused. Plus every public Counsel verdict, full memos, no paywall, and the Daily Brief if you want the firehose.
€99/mo for Counsel on every decision you bring. Argued against your stack, your constraints, your team. 14 days free, no card. Cancel anytime.
3–6 months of engineering on the wrong vendor call. The pricing change you saw after you renewed. The competitor move your CEO raised in the board meeting. The cost isn't more newsletters — it's the decision you made blind.
Annual billing saves 20% on Solo and Team. Team is €499/mo flat, or €399/mo billed yearly.
FREE
The monthly edition — thousands read, a dozen kept. Plus every public Counsel verdict.
- Every public Counsel verdict — full memos, no paywall
- Daily Brief: 7 articles curated from 500+ AI sources
- Personalized feed (role, topics, sources, content type)
- Weekly digest (top picks of the week)
- Global trending subjects
- Bookmarks & collections
- Counsel (decision-grounded synthesis)
- Decision context profile
- Counsel-aware brief reranking (active decisions reweight selection)
SOLO · COUNSEL
Billed annually · €948/year
Counsel on every decision you bring. Argued against your stack, your constraints, your team — verbatim quotes, matched signal, honest direct/adjacent/tangential tags. Reads like a consultant's synthesis, not a feed.
No credit card required for the trial
- Everything in Free
- Counsel — relevance-ranked synthesis with quiet areas and "Given your…" framing
- Every decision you bring — no slots, no per-decision billing
- Decision context profile (active decisions, constraints, capability tracks)
- Conversational context builder (LLM surfaces dimensions you didn't state)
- Decision-driven retrieval (semantic, not topic-label-limited)
- Unlimited refreshes (no LLM metering)
- Per-section feedback that trains your brief over time
- Counsel history (every regen preserved)
- Counsel-aware Daily Brief (active decisions reweight ranking)
- Expert filters: depth, code, media type, source tier
- Priority support
TEAM
Billed annually · €4788/year · up to 5 seats
Coordinated intelligence for AI leadership teams, investment teams, consulting practices. Unlimited decisions per seat, shared context, no metering.
- Everything in Solo, per seat
- Unlimited active decisions per seat (no slot limit, no metering)
- Shared decision context (team-wide active decisions)
- Cross-seat feedback loop ("Sarah flagged this" signals)
- Usage analytics & activity export
- Centralized billing & seat management
- Dedicated onboarding (1-hour workshop)
- SSO / SAML (coming Q3 2026)
The budget line Solo competes for
Counsel isn't competing with newsletters or RSS readers. It's the budget line between "I subscribe to Stratechery" and "we have a Bloomberg terminal." Every option below answers a different question — only AIssential answers "what does the field know that shifts the decision I'm making right now?"
| What you're paying for | AIssential Solo | Premium newsletter (Stratechery etc.) | Gartner / CB Insights | Bloomberg Intelligence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price / month | €79 annual, €99 monthly 14 days free, no card. All decisions included. | €12–20 | €1,000+ | €2,000+ |
| Built around YOUR decisions | ✓ Context profile drives every brief | — One-to-many | — Industry reports | — Market data |
| All your decisions, one price | ✓ No slots, no per-decision math | — | — | — |
| "Given your decision…" framing | ✓ | — | — | — |
| AI/ML source depth | 500+ AI-specific | Single author's picks | Proprietary research | Market feeds |
| Feedback loop trains your brief | ✓ Per-section ratings + clicks | — | — | — |
| Time-to-first-brief | ~8 minutes (guided context) | Instant | Weeks (RFP) | Days (license) |
Frequently asked questions
One price. Every decision. 14 days free.
Start by reading a public Counsel verdict. Open Counsel on your own decisions — €99/mo Solo, every decision you bring, no slots, no math. 14-day free trial, no card. Cancel anytime.