RiskMandateCredit, and the meter.
Each customer starts with credit to spend on a site we run. What they use is metered from the first day, so the question of what they would pay is a real one, asked with the value already in front of them.
Status, from docs/reality.md: proposed Credit per customer, metered and billed on this site, with a top-up link · absent Accounts, sign-in or a customer login on this site
How it is meant to work
- A starting amount.
£5 or £50; the brief says the number is to be discovered. The lead records it on the customer page at milestone S0.
- A meter on the site.
The newsroom's meter, SG Meter, charges a reader's balance a few pence per page and lets it go negative; the reader decides when to top up. The top-up link has been live there since 11 October 2026. The same meter works for any site we run.
- Two numbers.
Credit used, and whether they topped up. Both are on the customer page and in the batch table, and both are what the price question is answered from.
- The price, discovered.
The credit tells us how much each customer uses before they would top up; the follow-up tells us why. It could be quite high, or quite low. We start with credit and learn what feels fair.
What is wired today, and what is not
The meter is real; it is the newsroom's, not yet this site's. Until the lead wires SG Meter to customers.riskmandate.ai, the credit on a customer page is a number kept by hand in data/customers.json, changed by a release. The steps that only a human can do are in what needs a human.
This site has no accounts and no sign-in, and that is deliberate: it is static. When the meter is wired, the reading account is the meter's, as it is on the newsroom, and this site stays as it is.
Why credit rather than a price
Most purchases are bets on future value; a balance that can go negative asks for payment when the value is already in view. That is the experiment the newsroom runs, in paying after the value. And a customer who pays is the best signal you will get, which is why making it easy to pay goes in early, in can you sell it?. The point of the programme is not the sale. It is what we learn trying.
What the store already sells
The Agent Behaviour Policy is for sale on riskmandate.ai at four levels, £10 to £1,500: a pack, a working vault, one corrected for your situation, and one a professional signs. The programme's credit is a different question: not which level, but what a use of the site is worth, a few pence at a time, to a particular person.