Reselling Automate under your own name

Your job is to sell the outcome, so start with what you would otherwise do by hand: connecting the apps, wiring the steps and checking that each run finished. Automate puts one connection screen in front of many apps, runs the work inside accounts you already hold, and keeps a guided setup plus an activity log beside it.

Before you pay, match the tier to the number of runs you expect each month, not to a feature list. The published tiers are Starter lifetime, Growth lifetime and BYOK unlimited lifetime, and each is bought once rather than renewed. That shape suits a reseller who wants to bill clients for the result instead of carrying a subscription.

Then read the licence terms for client use, because that is the objection most resellers raise first. Nothing in the brief makes client use automatic, so get the answer before you commit. Once volume and licence both fit, you can quote a fixed setup to a client and keep the difference between that setup and your own lifetime cost.

Volume is the usual reason to move up a tier. If your client work produces more runs than the Starter tier carries, the Growth lifetime tier is the next step, and the price you paid is still a single lifetime figure rather than a monthly bill that grows with your client list.

The BYOK unlimited lifetime tier changes where the model cost sits instead of simply adding features. With your own model key, requests go to your provider account and that provider bills you. For a reseller this can suit a client whose usage is steady and predictable, because the model spend follows the client rather than sitting in your tier price.

Read the side-by-side table from softwareprogrammer.app before choosing, and treat each tier as an answer to a volume question. A larger tier does not give you more apps or more steps; it gives you more room to run the same connection screen and activity log across more client accounts without hitting the limit you bought.

Licences that forbid client use are the first thing to settle, and no tier name answers it on its own. Ask directly whether you may run Automate on behalf of a paying client under your own purchase, and get the answer in writing before you quote the work to anyone.

The second hesitation is control, because a client will ask who can see what. Work runs inside the accounts you connect, and what it can reach stops at the permissions those accounts grant. That means a restricted app can stall a step until an admin approves access, so check each client account before you promise a date.

The third is the pause in destructive steps, which need your confirmation before they run. For a reseller that is useful, because a client's data is not deleted by an unattended run. Plan those sequences so a person is present to confirm, and tell the client where that checkpoint sits in the workflow.

Take Growth lifetime against BYOK unlimited lifetime as the pair most resellers weigh. Both are bought once, and both run the same connection screen, guided setup, activity log and confirmation step. The difference is where the model cost lands and how much run volume the tier carries for your client work.

With Growth lifetime, model usage sits inside what you paid and your monthly cost does not move with each client's usage. That suits a reseller who wants one predictable figure to quote. With BYOK unlimited lifetime, your own provider key is billed for each request, which suits work where usage is steady and you would rather see the model cost directly.

Choose Growth when you want the simplest figure to build a client quote around. Choose BYOK unlimited when you already hold a provider account and want usage to follow the client rather than your tier. Either way, confirm client use in the licence first, because the tier choice matters less than permission to resell the work.