Monetization
Pricing
The Brain is free because the encyclopedia should be free. The Desk and The Wire are the business.
The Brain stays open
Free
$0
- Full Brain browsing and search — never capped
- 2 active watches
- Stan with a daily question cap
- Read-only boards
- My Book basics
The daily driver
Stan Pro
$7–9/mo
or $60/yr
- Unlimited watches
- Faster alert dispatch
- Trip composer
- Full My Book stats and coverage math
- Armed buy — confirm-to-buy, with guardrails
- Live setlist push
For the group chat
Crew
$15/mo
- Everything in Pro
- Multi-user shared watches
- Shared Gorge camp packet
- Listing escrow discount
What we will not sell
Your show graph, to data brokers. Not now, not at a bad quarter.
Travel and merch affiliate links, when they exist, are disclosed as affiliate links inline. We will never pay-to-rank a ticket listing — the cheapest all-in that meets your filter is the one at the top, every time.