Can you resell the outcome instead of the login?

Value here is measured by what you can hand a client, not by how many seats you can spread across a team. Automate connects the apps you already pay for once, then asks the AI to research, write, send, update and log inside your own accounts, so the work you resell is an outcome rather than access to a dashboard.

Three lifetime tiers sit on the table: Starter lifetime, Growth lifetime and BYOK unlimited lifetime, published on softwareprogrammer.app. Your own figures should come from that table rather than from any summary, because volume and key arrangement separate the tiers more than anything else does.

Think about what a client is actually buying from you. If they want a result delivered under your brand, the connection work you did once is the asset you keep selling. If they want to log in themselves, that is a different business, and the tier you choose should follow the shape of the service you intend to run.

Between the volume tiers and the BYOK unlimited lifetime tier, the split is about who carries the model cost. Volume tiers bundle usage into what you bought. The BYOK route sends model requests to your own key, so your provider bills you for those requests separately from the tier.

That distinction matters most when your client work is uneven. Quiet months and busy months behave differently depending on which side of the line you sit on, and a reseller with steady delivery may prefer one arrangement while a partner with spiky demand may prefer the other.

Read the tier names as descriptions of capacity, not as promises about results. Starter lifetime and Growth lifetime indicate volume; BYOK unlimited lifetime indicates the key arrangement. Match the name to the way you intend to bill clients, then confirm the detail on the published table.

The objection you raised is the one to settle first. Licences that forbid client use would sink the whole plan, so read the terms that govern reselling and white-label use before you pay for any tier, and get an answer in writing if the wording is not clear to you.

Second, audit the accounts you intend to connect. The platform acts only within the permissions those accounts already grant, so a restricted app stays out of reach until an admin approves it. Map each client workflow to the access it needs and note where approval is missing.

Third, walk through the setup yourself. Guided setup and the activity log are there to show you what ran and when, which is useful when a client asks how a result was produced. Confirm that the log gives you enough detail to answer those questions before you build a service around it.

Start with one client workflow end to end rather than a catalogue of them. Pick a sequence that researches, writes, sends and logs, connect the apps it touches, and run it until you trust the output. The activity log tells you what happened at each step, which is the evidence you need before repeating it.

Decide early whether you are selling delivery or access. Selling delivery keeps the connection work in your hands and makes the tier choice a capacity question. Selling access changes what your client sees and what they expect from you, so settle that before you scale the number of clients you take on.

Then choose your tier against real volume rather than a guess. If you expect steady throughput, weigh the volume tiers. If you would rather hold your own model key and absorb provider billing yourself, weigh the BYOK unlimited lifetime tier. Revisit the choice once you have live client work to measure against.