Which Help Me Teach Me level fits a small store?

Contact quality, not contact volume, decides whether a sourcing run was worth your evening. A described task about reaching buyers at brands and distributors comes back as a brief with options and live prices, so you can see whether the names are real companies before you spend time writing to them.

Your objection is sensible: paying for contacts that bounce on the first send wastes both money and the short window when a new range is being planned. The brief format lets you check each option against a live price and a named source before anything reaches your inbox, which is a different test from counting rows in a bought list.

Treat the first run as a test of the research rather than of the sending. You enter the task, the assistant researches it and teaches the method, and you keep the brief as evidence of how the supplier search was built. That record is what you judge before deciding whether the approach works for your store.

Two lifetime tiers are published, Learner lifetime and Certified lifetime, and the prices sit in the publisher's own table on softwareprogrammer.app. Both give you the same core shape: you describe the task, the assistant researches it, then gives options with live prices and teaches, shows or does the work with you.

Four modes can be switched mid-session, which matters when a supplier search turns into a lesson on reading a wholesale catalogue. Sessions are recorded with replay, so you can revisit how a shortlist of distributors was assembled. Finished runs are saved as lessons, so a working method for one product line becomes a reference for the next.

The difference between the tiers is a commercial question rather than a technical one. Read the published table, match the level to how much sourcing work you expect to run yourself, and ignore any feature you cannot trace back to the brief, the modes, the replay or the saved lessons.

Behind the tier question sits a simpler one: will this produce replies from buyers at brands and distributors, or another list that bounces? No tool can promise a reply, and this one makes no completion promise either. What you can assess is whether the researched options name real companies with live prices you can verify.

That reframes your objection. Instead of asking what a contact costs, ask what evidence comes with it. The brief gives you options and prices, the session replay shows the research path, and the saved lesson preserves the method. You then decide whether the names are worth a first message from your own store account.

Run one narrow task, such as finding distributors for a single product line, and check the brief by hand. If the companies check out and the prices hold, the tier decision follows from how much of that work you want to repeat. If they do not, you have learned that before committing to a lifetime tier.

Moving up a tier is about capacity for repeated sourcing work, not about a different kind of contact. The brief, the four modes, the replay and the saved lessons describe the product's shape; the published table sets out what each level includes. Read that table before paying and map each line to a task your store actually runs.

A small store team should ask who will sit in the session. You log in to your own accounts, so the assistant works inside the services your store already holds, and whoever runs the sourcing needs that access. That is an operational point worth settling before a tier is chosen rather than after.

If your wholesale conversations are occasional, the entry level gives you room to test the method on one range. If supplier research is a standing part of your week, weigh whether the higher tier matches that rhythm. Either way, the decision rests on the published tiers and your own trial run, not on a promise of guaranteed replies.