CitedLeads AppSumo lifetime deal: FAQ

The CitedLeads AppSumo lifetime deal gives you a permanent plan (a one-time credit pool released on a printed schedule, a recurring monthly credit grant, monitored-lead rows, seats, and printed export caps) in exchange for a single payment at one of four tiers ($79 / $199 / $379 / $599, provisional pending calibration). This FAQ answers the questions LTD buyers actually ask, including the ones most deal pages avoid.

Tier quantities are provisional pending a provider-cost calibration pass; the deal structure (what a credit buys, the release schedule, rollover, the anti-creep clause) is what we commit to.

What does a credit buy?

Exactly one thing: 1 credit = 1 verified, cited contact reveal. ICP searches, cited briefs, monitoring refreshes, misses, invalids, and CSV exports inside your printed caps consume 0 credits. There is one meter, and it only runs on verified reveals.

That definition is the whole deal in one sentence; everything else is quantity. For why a single meter matters, see credit pricing explained.

What do the tiers include?

Four LTD tiers are listed on the pricing page. Each tier combines a one-time pool, a monthly grant, monitored-lead rows, seats, and export caps. Provisional quantities:

Tier	One-time price	Monthly grant	One-time pool	Monitored leads	Seats	Export cap / export	Export budget / mo
Solo	$79	100 credits	500 credits	50	1	500 rows	1,500 rows
Growth	$199	250 credits	800 credits	300	3	2,000 rows	6,000 rows
Agency	$379	500 credits	1,500 credits	1,000	5	10,000 rows	30,000 rows
Scale	$599	800 credits	2,500 credits	2,500	10	25,000 rows	75,000 rows

Higher tiers raise every axis: pool size, monthly grant, monitoring rows, seats, export budget, plus unlocks like API access (rate-limited), white-label reports, and priority support at the upper tiers.

How does the pool release schedule work?

One-time pools release on a printed schedule: 40% on day 1, 30% on day 15, 30% on day 30. The schedule exists to keep burst abuse out of the deal; it is printed up front rather than discovered in a dashboard tooltip. Released pool credits do not expire.

Do credits expire?

Monthly grants roll over up to 2× the monthly grant while your plan is active.
Pool credits do not expire once released.
Top-up credits carry a printed 12-month expiry.

What do top-ups cost?

If you burn through your allowance, top-up packs price at $0.45/credit for LTD holders (versus the $0.60 standard rate), with a 50-credit minimum pack. Top-up pricing is on the pricing page.

What happens if a reveal fails?

Nothing is charged. A credit only moves when the provider path returns an email: misses, invalids, and unknowns consume 0 credits, and catch-all results are flagged as lower-confidence rather than marked verified. A reveal that returns an email is charged like any delivered reveal. If a verified contact later bounces, report it and support credits the reveal back: a manual adjustment visible in the credit ledger, like every other credit event.

What are the honest limits of this deal?

Quantities are provisional. Tier sizes are marked pending a provider-cost calibration pass. What does not move: the credit definition, the rollover rule, the release schedule, and the anti-creep clause.
The product is in early access. CitedLeads runs on synthetic demo data while provider contracts clear; the deal terms describe the product being activated, and the rate card locks at your activation.
Export caps are real. Per-export row caps and monthly export budgets are printed per tier and enforced. A lifetime deal is not a bulk-data pipeline.
No stacking games. The deal terms govern what you get; the AppSumo purchase agreement plus our printed terms are the whole contract.
Email reveals only. There is no phone-reveal meter; contact reveals cover business email.

LTD or monthly: how to think about it

The same credit rules govern both shapes; the choice is cash-flow, not features. Monthly plans run $39 / $99 / $249 (annual billing saves roughly 25%), and the LTD tiers are priced against them transparently: each tier's sticker is compared on the pricing page to 12 months of the comparable SaaS plan, not to an inflated MSRP. If you will use the product for a year or more, the LTD math favors the one-time price; if you are not sure the product fits your motion, monthly is the cheaper way to find out.

A sanity check on scale: the Growth LTD carries a 250-credit monthly grant, up to 250 verified contacts a month once live. Against typical per-lead costs in this category, the first-year effective price lands in the cents per verified lead. The math only works because the meter charges on outcomes, not attempts.

What is the anti-creep clause?

Your rate card locks what a credit buys at activation. If terms ever change, you keep the better of old versus new. It is printed on the pricing page because a lifetime deal is only worth what the terms say it is, and LTD buyers have been burned by definitions that quietly shrank after the deal closed.

Who should skip it?

If you need thousands of contacts a month, a monitored list in the tens of thousands, or phone reveals, this is the wrong tool at any price. CitedLeads builds small, cited, verified working sets: 50-100 evidence-backed briefs per run, not bulk exports. The LTD rewards teams who value that shape. If you want a database seat with a sequencer attached, a platform like Apollo is a better fit (see the comparison).