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Monetization Map

Find the premium-worthy features, the natural upgrade moments, and the billing friction between users and paying you.

REVENUE.md4 phases6 lenses~2.6k chars

Free & open · no signup · read-only — it ends by asking · nothing leaves your machine

What it does

You are working inside this repo. Mission: map how this product makes money — or could — by finding premium-worthy value, natural upgrade moments, and the friction between a willing user and a completed payment.

Read-only pass. Your only write is the report file.

What it looks for

6 lenses it looks through

Phase 2 sweeps the codebase through every one of these, citing file and line for each finding.

1

Premium-worthy value

features that are high-value, costly to serve, collaborative, or power-user-only: natural paid-tier material

2

Upgrade moments

where a user hits a limit or a success high point; is there a well-placed, honest prompt there?

3

Packaging

free-tier generosity (too much? too little to feel value?); tier logic clarity; what each tier is FOR

4

Payment friction

pricing-page clarity, checkout steps, trust signals, what happens on failed payment

5

Expansion paths

seats, usage, add-ons: revenue that grows as the customer succeeds

6

Plumbing gaps

can users actually upgrade/downgrade/cancel in-product; are limits even enforced in code?

The deliverable

What lands in your repo

One structured report at the repo root — or in reports/, if you keep one — the same shape every time, ready for a teammate — or the optional Studio — to act on.

REVENUE.md
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Current model snapshot
what exists, what's enforced, what leaks
2
Packaging proposal
tiers with the one-line job of each
3
Upgrade moment placements
where in the UI/code, with trigger conditions
4
Friction fixes
pricing page and checkout, ranked
5
Quick wins vs structural changes
Start the report with today's date. If REVENUE.md already exists from a previous run, read it first and lead with what changed since.
One file. Evidence-backed. It ends by asking before touching anything.
How it works

What it makes the agent do

Every Goal Prompt follows the same four steps, so results are consistent and repeatable — no matter which one you run.

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Phase 1

Understand the current model

What exists today.

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Phase 2

Audit through 6 lenses

Premium-worthy value — features that are high-value, costly to serve, collaborative, or power-user-only.

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Phase 3

Curate

Every proposal names the willingness-to-pay signal behind it (usage pattern, cost, alternative price).

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Phase 4

Report

Create REVENUE.md at repo root.

Get started

Three ways to run this Goal Prompt

01 · COPY

Paste it in

Copy it and paste it into your agent inside the repo you want checked.

02 · INSTALL

As a slash command

Install the goal plugin once — two commands — then just type /goal:monetization-map.

1/plugin marketplace add GhostlyGawd/goal-prompts
2/plugin install goal@goal-prompts

Or install only this Goal Prompt as /goal-monetization-map:

curl -fsSL https://goal-prompts.vercel.app/install | BRIEF=11 sh
03 · AGENT

From an agent (MCP)

Let an agent fetch it mid-conversation, or pull the raw Goal Prompt by URL.

https://goal-prompts.vercel.app/raw/11.md
Transparency

The exact prompt

Nothing hidden — this is the whole Goal Prompt, verbatim. Read it in a minute, edit it, or copy it as-is.

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# Goal: Monetization Map

You are working inside this repo. Mission: map how this product makes money — or could — by finding premium-worthy value, natural upgrade moments, and the friction between a willing user and a completed payment.

Read-only pass. Your only write is the report file.

## Phase 1 — Understand the current model
- What exists today: free, paid, tiers, trials? Where does billing code live, if anywhere?
- What is expensive to serve (compute, storage, third-party costs) — and is that cost gated?
- What do power users do here that casual users don't? (infer from features and data model)

## Phase 2 — Audit through 6 lenses
1. **Premium-worthy value** — features that are high-value, costly to serve, collaborative, or power-user-only: natural paid-tier material
2. **Upgrade moments** — where a user hits a limit or a success high point; is there a well-placed, honest prompt there?
3. **Packaging** — free-tier generosity (too much? too little to feel value?); tier logic clarity; what each tier is FOR
4. **Payment friction** — pricing-page clarity, checkout steps, trust signals, what happens on failed payment
5. **Expansion paths** — seats, usage, add-ons: revenue that grows as the customer succeeds
6. **Plumbing gaps** — can users actually upgrade/downgrade/cancel in-product; are limits even enforced in code?

## Phase 3 — Curate
- Every proposal names the willingness-to-pay signal behind it (usage pattern, cost, alternative price)
- Flag churn risks: aggressive gating that would poison goodwill
- Prefer honest value gates over dark patterns — always

## Phase 4 — Report
Create `REVENUE.md` at repo root:
1. **Current model snapshot** — what exists, what's enforced, what leaks
2. **Packaging proposal** — tiers with the one-line job of each
3. **Upgrade moment placements** — where in the UI/code, with trigger conditions
4. **Friction fixes** — pricing page and checkout, ranked
5. **Quick wins vs structural changes**

Start the report with today's date. If `REVENUE.md` already exists from a previous run, read it first and lead with what changed since.

## Rules
- Monetize value delivered, not hostage features
- Every gate needs a "still generous" free story
- No monetizable product surface in this repo? Say so in a one-paragraph null report and stop — a null result is a valid finding.
- If a `reports/` directory exists at the repo root, write the report there instead of the root.
- Before asking, present the top findings as a ranked list in plain words
- Report only — end by asking which changes to make

House rules for this Goal Prompt

  • Monetize value delivered, not hostage features
  • Every gate needs a "still generous" free story
  • No monetizable product surface in this repo? Say so in a one-paragraph null report and stop — a null result is a valid finding.
  • If a reports/ directory exists at the repo root, write the report there instead of the root.
  • Before asking, present the top findings as a ranked list in plain words
  • Report only — end by asking which changes to make
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