Buying Automate to resell under your own name

Your day probably looks like copying a client's form responses into a sheet, then into a CRM, then into an email sequence, one login at a time. Automate replaces that round of manual copying with a build you keep: one connection screen where the apps are authorised, then work that runs inside the accounts rather than beside them.

What you sell afterwards is the outcome, not a login you hand over. The buyer of your service sees a process that happens on its own, under your name, with its own activity log. You keep the build, the connections and the record of what ran, and you reuse that assembly for the next client instead of starting from an empty canvas each time.

The tier you choose sets two things: how much volume your builds can carry and whether model usage runs on the platform or on your own key. Those are the practical differences between Starter, Growth and the BYOK unlimited tier, and they are the numbers to weigh against the work your clients already send you.

A lower tier caps the volume your builds can push through. If you run several clients from one purchase, that ceiling arrives sooner than you expect, and a client's busy week can sit against the same limit as your own testing. Read the volume attached to each tier against the busiest month you already handle.

The BYOK unlimited tier moves model usage to your own provider key. That changes where the cost lands rather than removing it: your provider bills your key for each request, outside the lifetime purchase. If you would rather carry that cost inside your own pricing for clients, this is the tier where you arrange it, and the platform tier above Starter sits in between.

Guided setup and the activity log are the parts you rely on when a client asks what happened. Setup walks through the connections so a build is repeatable, and the log shows the run afterwards. Neither replaces the licence check, so confirm client use in writing before you quote a client anything.

The objection you raised is licences that forbid client use, and it is the right thing to check first. A lifetime tier you cannot use for paying clients is a tool for your own desk only. Ask directly whether reselling the outcome, and running builds inside client accounts, is permitted on the tier you are buying, and keep the answer in writing.

The second concern is reach. Every action runs inside the accounts you connect, so what a build can touch ends at the permissions those accounts grant. A client app that is not authorised will stall a step, and some apps need an administrator at the client end to approve access before anything runs at all.

The third is the pause. Steps that delete or overwrite records wait for your confirmation rather than finishing unattended. That is sensible, and it also means a sequence with a destructive step cannot run fully on its own. Plan those steps as ones you supervise, and tell clients which parts still need a person.

Put the three tiers side by side and ask one question of each: can I run client work on this tier, at the volume my busiest client sends, with a licence that permits it? If any of the three fails, the tier is wrong for reselling no matter how the rest reads. That single test narrows the choice faster than a feature list.

If your volume is modest and you accept the platform model, the entry tier can carry early client builds while you prove the process. If volume is unpredictable across several clients, the higher volume tier is the one to compare against what you bill. If you already hold a model key and want usage billed there, the BYOK unlimited tier is the one to weigh.

The comparison is not about which tier holds more. It is about which tier lets you sell the same build twice without renegotiating permissions or watching a cap. Decide that, then go to the published lifetime tiers on softwareprogrammer.app and read each one against the client work you have lined up.