Guides
Product models tools compared: what the demo will not show you
Product modeling tools compared by what they store: unit cost, list and realized price, deductions, and the export test that decides a purchase.
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September 2026
Costs
Product models framework as practitioners see it
A product models framework that separates the four decisions a price actually settles, and shows why cost-plus and value-based answer different questions.
Features
Product models examples worth copying, and why
Twelve product models examples where the obvious price is wrong, each named with the buyer's real alternative, hidden cost, or ownership burden behind it.
Industry
Service models case study: the 2027 review
A service models case study tracking one firm's margin decline, the three explanations its owners tested, and the senior-share call that reset its ceiling.
Costs
Five pressures pushing service models toward fixed fees this year
Service models trends worth watching in 2027: pressure toward fixed fees, senior-hour scarcity, subcontracted delivery, and what each does to the effective rate.
Reviews
Where unit economics mistakes actually hide: inputs, not arithmetic
Nine unit economics mistakes that are bookkeeping rather than concept, grouped by whether they enter through the inputs, the arithmetic, or the use.
Maintenance
Quoted rate vs collected rate: the service models metrics that matter
Quoted rate and collected rate tell different stories. Track the four leaks, the senior-hour ceiling and client concentration to see where margin goes.
Features
4 things worth knowing about service models questions
Service models questions worth settling before you quote: who absorbs overrun, what the rate has to cover, and when a fixed fee is the wrong product.
Industry
Ad-supported vs subscription models and the FTC rules for US publishers
State advertising tax guide ad-supported subscription: what California, New York, Texas, and Florida charge, plus FTC disclosure rules that decide your model.
Rules
California Consumer Privacy Act and its impact on ad-based revenue
CCPA ad-based revenue California: how the state privacy law hits targeted ads, opt-out and sale rules, enforcement, and the fixes publishers use.
Rules
Franchise revenue models and the FTC rule: how state royalty laws differ
Franchise revenue models FTC state royalties explained: what the FTC Franchise Rule requires in the FDD and how California, New York and Illinois rules differ.
Rules
SEC revenue recognition for SaaS founders, ASC 606 explained
SEC revenue recognition SaaS ASC 606: how the five-step model, SEC filing rules and audit pitfalls shape subscription revenue in the United States.
Guides
Where twelve service models examples hit their ceiling, and why
Twelve service models examples tied to real firms show where each hits its ceiling and which party absorbs the resulting cost overruns and delays.
Industry
Service models mistakes: where estimating, staffing and pricing go wrong
Nine service models mistakes in estimating, staffing, and pricing, each with the arithmetic that shows what it costs and the change that fixes it.
Maintenance
Understanding pricing architecture questions properly as of 2027
Pricing architecture questions that recur in every company, with what is actually being disputed in each and the cheapest way to settle it for good.
Costs
4 points on service models checklist that matter
A service models checklist covering the estimate, the scope record, the senior-hour ceiling, and the collection chain, with what each answer should change.
Industry
Ad-Supported Revenue Model Design: Subscription vs Advertising for US Publishers
Ad-supported revenue model design for US publishers: how advertising and subscriptions compare on CPM ranges, state privacy rules, churn and cost.
Rules
Affiliate Revenue Model Design for Canadian Bloggers: CRA Rules
Affiliate revenue model design in Canada: CRA reporting, GST/HST registration and disclosure rules for Canadian bloggers who earn commissions on links.
Rules
Franchise Revenue Model Design: Royalty Rates and the FDD's Blind Spots
Franchise revenue model design starts with the Franchise Rule: what the FDD must show about royalties, what stays hidden, and who enforces it.
Rules
Marketplace models questions: what people ask and what is true
Marketplace models questions about who pays, what the fee buys, and what happens when the two sides no longer need you, answered without a recommended number.
Rules
SaaS Revenue Model Design Under ASC 606: What to Change Before Your Audit
SaaS revenue model design ASC 606 sits under US GAAP, and auditors test the design before fieldwork. Here is what to change in the model and records.
Guides
5 plain facts about subscription models questions
Subscription models questions answered with churn arithmetic: what a monthly loss rate does to a book, what expansion offsets, and what cancellation owes a customer.
Guides
Usage-Based Pricing Model Design: Which Metric Should You Charge For?
Usage-based pricing model design starts with the metric you charge for. Compare per-seat, per-unit, and hybrid approaches on cost, risk, and buyer fit.
Maintenance
Choosing marketplace models tools: the four records liquidity actually needs
Best marketplace models tools 2027: the records a two-sided business must keep to measure liquidity, and the demo tests that separate reporting from measurement.
Features
4 things to understand about pricing architecture mistakes
Four things to understand about pricing architecture mistakes: who decides, what the contract fixes, what billing can capture, and how a change reaches the customer.
Costs
Why most unit economics tools fail the spend-to-cost join
Best unit economics tools 2027, ranked by how well each joins spend, accounts and costs, and what to test in a vendor trial before you buy one.
Maintenance
Unit economics examples: when the obvious unit is the wrong one
Twelve unit economics examples where the obvious unit is the wrong one, with the unit that works and the cost that has to follow it for the answer to mean anything.
Rules
Pricing architecture trends worth taking seriously
Pricing architecture trends for 2027 as five structural pressures, each with a check you can run on your own contracts to see whether it applies to you.
Reviews
How to judge pricing architecture tools before you sign a contract
Best pricing architecture tools 2027: the four records a price structure has to leave behind, when a spreadsheet is enough, and the reconstruct test.
Features
The export test that separates real revenue models tools from spreadsheets
Best revenue models tools 2027: what a billing system has to represent before it constrains your model, the four jobs, and the export test to run first.
Reviews
Model innovation: what to keep and what to drop
Model innovation as a transition problem: the four levers, the cash trough, the incentives that defeat you, and how to sequence the irreversible decisions last.
Maintenance
The business model types checklist that catches what audits miss
A business model types checklist of twelve pass-or-fail questions, each with the condition that means it has failed and the record that answers it.
Features
Business model types examples: eight archetypes and what breaks each one
Eight business model archetypes with named examples, showing where money enters, what keeps it flowing, and the condition that breaks each one.
Costs
Business model types framework: five axes and where they conflict
A business model types framework of five independent axes to place yourself on, plus the position combinations that are reasonable alone and unworkable together.
Industry
Business model types metrics explained for people who act on them
Business model types metrics do not travel between structures: which family fits which shape of money, and the five definitional traps that break every comparison.
Rules
Business model types mistakes without the filler (2027 update)
Nine business model types mistakes, each a reasonable decision with structural consequences, and the visible number that was standing in for a harder one.
Maintenance
Liquidity first: the order marketplace model problems actually arrive in
Marketplace models in the order the problems arrive: liquidity first, then who pays, what the fee buys, where a marketplace leaks, and when to stop being one.
Features
The five tolls that decide whether platform models actually work
Platform models tested rather than claimed: whether third parties really produce on top of you, the five tolls available, and why the rules are the pricing.
Rules
Pricing architecture checklist from the ground up as of 2027
Pricing architecture checklist: twelve audits run against your own invoices, contracts and approval records, with what each finding should change.
Costs
5 details of pricing architecture examples people miss
Five pricing architecture examples named by the companies that run them reveal the approval problem each structure creates on the buyer's desk.
Maintenance
A realistic take on pricing architecture: the 2027 view
A pricing architecture guide to changing a live price structure: the two documents to build first, which layer to move, and how to plan the handover.
Guides
What your own pricing records can prove, and the limit metrics hit
Pricing architecture metrics and their limits: which questions your own price history can answer, which it can only bound, and the one it cannot answer at all.
Guides
Why growth quietly drains cash in most product models
Product models and the cash round trip: the cost stack most firms never finish, the mechanism that produces a second order, and why growth consumes cash.
Reviews
Revenue models examples with the reasoning laid bare
Twelve revenue models examples built from four ordinary offerings charged three ways each, showing what every capture event obliges you to staff and run.
Maintenance
Revenue models framework: the 2027 review
A revenue models framework that eliminates rather than selects: four constraints on the buyer's side that rule out most charging shapes before you choose.
Rules
Reading revenue models metrics without fooling yourself
Revenue models metrics separated into four numbers that get one name, with what each can carry, what it cannot, and the gaps that hold the information.
Costs
Revenue models questions, answered without hedging
Revenue models questions that arrive from buyers, partners, lenders and your own sales team, with what a solid answer contains and what gives you away.
Rules
Getting service models right the first time
Service models built on a perishable calendar and an uncertain estimate: who eats the variance, what the effective rate shows, and where the ceiling sits.
Industry
Subscription models and the promises recurring revenue cannot break
Subscription models and the obligations recurring revenue creates: why retention compounds, the three churns that get one name, and when the shape is wrong.
Costs
Unit economics and the choice of unit: why the wrong pick lies to you
Unit economics from the choice of unit onward: which costs a unit really caused, why blended figures mislead, and why payback is about cash and not profit.
Reviews
Pricing architecture: what the experienced already know for 2027
Pricing architecture in six layers, from the billing metric to the change rule, with a table for working out which layer is causing the symptom you can see.
Features
Revenue model choice: the four questions that actually decide it
Revenue models compared by four answers rather than labels: who pays, what event releases the money, how often it repeats, and when the cash actually lands.
Guides
Which five decisions decide your business model type?
Business model types are outputs of five decisions about buyer, value, delivery, capture and defense: how to tell which type your invoices say you run.