Handing over lead lists your client can trust

One connection screen is where this decision starts. You link the apps you already pay for, and Automate then does the work inside those accounts rather than in a separate tool. For a contractor, that means the research, the drafting, the sending and the logging all happen where the contact record already lives, so the trail from row to source stays intact.

Because the work runs inside your own accounts, the activity log becomes the thing you show a client. Each step is recorded as it happens, which gives you something concrete to attach when a buyer asks where a name came from. That is the objection you carry into every handover, and the log answers it without you rebuilding the story from memory.

Guided setup matters for a solo or small contractor. You walk through the connections once, then reuse them for the next client rather than rebuilding a stack per project. The tiers are grouped by volume and by bring-your-own-key, so your choice is mostly about how many runs you expect and whether you want to supply your own model key.

Volume is the axis that separates the Starter lifetime tier from Growth. If you deliver lists across several clients at once, the larger tier gives you more room before you feel the ceiling, which matters when a client asks for a fresh batch at short notice. You are buying headroom, not a different feature set.

The BYOK unlimited lifetime tier changes a different variable. Instead of the platform carrying model usage, you supply your own model key and that provider bills you directly. For a contractor running steady volume, this separates the platform cost from the model cost and lets you match model spend to the work you actually deliver.

Nothing in the tier table changes what the AI can reach. A larger tier does not widen permissions on a client's account, and it does not add confirmation-free destructive steps. What it does is let you run more of the same connected work, so the practical gain is throughput on the sequences you have already built.

Unverifiable rows are the fear, and the answer is procedural rather than promotional. Keep the activity log with each delivery, so every row traces back to a step that ran in an account you control. When a client disputes a contact, you open the log instead of defending the list from memory.

The second worry is whether the AI will act beyond what you intended. Destructive steps need your confirmation before they proceed, so a sequence that would delete or overwrite data pauses for you. That pause is a feature of the buying decision, not a defect, and you should plan the handover around it.

The third is cost drift. With BYOK, model usage is billed to your own key, so your provider invoice reflects what you ran. Budget for that line separately and you will not be surprised. Read the lifetime tiers on softwareprogrammer.app before you commit, and match the tier to your expected volume rather than to a hope.

Put Starter lifetime against Growth lifetime and the difference is capacity. Both connect the same apps through one screen and both run work inside your accounts with the activity log recording each step. Starter suits a contractor with a modest, steady delivery schedule; Growth suits one juggling several client lists at the same time.

Set Growth against BYOK unlimited lifetime and the difference is who pays for the model. Growth keeps model usage inside the platform arrangement, while BYOK sends it to your own key and your provider bills you. The unlimited label refers to that arrangement, so weigh your expected model spend against the simplicity of a single purchase.

Whichever pair you compare, confirm two things first: that you have access to the client accounts you plan to connect, and that your delivery process can absorb the confirmation pause on destructive steps. Do that, and the tier choice becomes a volume question rather than a leap of faith.