Pricing
One monthly fee covers everything: the system, the computing your organisation runs on, and an AI allowance. Never per person, never a cut of what you make. Choose the plan that fits, and change it whenever you like.
Free in the beta for the organisations we invite
For a founder, alone, planting an idea and finding their feet.
Free in the beta · then $39 a month
AI allowancesmall
Enough for Wise-Eye to help you found it, write your first website and keep the first tasks moving.
For a small team running itself, with agents taking the admin.
Free in the beta · then $99 a month for the whole organisation
AI allowanceteam-sized
Day-to-day work for a team: sorting what comes in, drafting, reading the Field, keeping the rhythm.
For a busy organisation, with agents at work all day across its branches.
Free in the beta · then $199 a month for the whole organisation
AI allowancelarge
For many branches, a busy inbox, websites rebuilt and checked, and agents carrying real work.
Prices in US dollars a month, for the whole organisation, however many people are in it. The struck-out prices are what we expect to charge once the beta ends. The beta is small and by invitation: the organisations we take on don’t pay the plan fee, and we agree with each one how its AI is covered. You’ll hear from us well before any price applies, and you can change plan whenever you like.
Every plan, the whole thing
Plans differ in one way only: how much AI work is included each month. Everything else comes with all of them.
The AI allowance
This monthYour limit
Your plan’s allowanceExtra usage
Your plan includes AI for the month, shown as a simple bar of how much is used. Never as tokens, and never priced per task, proposal or vote — nobody should ration the work that holds the value.
Extra usage runs up to a monthly limit your organisation chooses, held by whoever holds AI for it. Turn it off altogether if you’d rather wait. Or move to a bigger plan.
For each kind of work, we choose the least expensive models that test well enough, and test them again as new ones arrive. That testing is part of what you pay for.
Your organisation counts its own AI and computing, in its own space: which model did what, for which job, and what it cost. You read the same numbers you’re billed on. Never what anyone said.
What it replaces
What a small start-up pays today for the parts The Grove covers, and what a team adds when it wants to run itself. List prices, billed yearly, in US dollars, as of October 2026.
| What The Grove covers | The usual tool | 5 people | 10 people |
|---|---|---|---|
| Running the work — a simple start-up’s stack | |||
| A website | Wix Core$29 a month, whatever the team’s size | $29 | $29 |
| Docs and know-how | Notion Plus$10 a person | $50 | $100 |
| Tasks and boards | monday.com Standard$12 a seat, 3 seats minimum | $60 | $120 |
| An AI that knows your organisation | ChatGPT Business or Claude Team$20 a person | $100 | $200 |
| The glue between them | Zapier Professional$20 a month | $20 | $20 |
| A simple start-up’s stack | $259 | $469 | |
| Running itself — what a self-managing team adds | |||
| Roles, accountabilities and governance | GlassFrogFree up to 10 people; Premium is $7 a person | $0 | $0 |
| Decisions by consent | Loomio Starter$33 a month | $33 | $33 |
| Sensing how things really are | Officevibe pulse surveysAbout $50 a month (10-person minimum) | $50 | $50 |
| Together, each month | $342 | $552 | |
| The Grove | One flat fee for the whole organisation | ||
Team chat and email — Slack Pro at $7.25 a person, Google Workspace from $7. Keep the ones you have. Some teams run docs and tasks both in Notion, which takes monday.com off the bill; and GlassFrog is close to our world and free for small teams, so we’ve counted it at nothing.
How it’s done
A start-up runs on a stack of tools that each do one job, with people in the gaps moving things between them: copying, chasing, updating, reminding. The Grove is one place, with an AI that does the moving.
Nobody draws an org chart. Work that keeps arriving with no home shows up as a tension, and Wise-Eye drafts the branch to hold it. The structure is the work.
Work finds the people who fit it and says why it reached them. A measure that slips raises its own task.
No channel to scroll back through. What’s said sits on the task, the doc or the decision it’s about, and each morning you get a few lines on what needs you.
It drafts, you correct, it learns. After enough approvals it offers to take that kind of work on. Anything with teeth still waits for a person.
The usual wayAn org chart, or GlassFrogSomeone draws the structure and keeps it up to date, usually after the work has already moved on.
On The GroveBranches grow where the work presses. Work with no home rises until someone holds it; when it keeps coming, Wise-Eye drafts a branch for it, and an open seat is shown to the people it would fit.
The usual waymonday.com, Asana, TrelloA manager hands out tasks on a board, and someone chases them.
On The GroveWork belongs to the branch that holds it and comes to the people who fit it, each piece saying why it reached them. Take it, or pass it on and it finds someone else.
The usual wayDashboards and spreadsheetsSomeone builds them, and someone has to remember to look.
On The GroveEach branch keeps a few living measures with their history. When one slips, its task raises itself. Ask Wise-Eye and it makes the chart.
The usual waySlack, email threads, DMsDecisions and know-how vanish into scrollback, and everyone is pinged all day.
On The GroveMessages sit on the task they’re about; what’s learned goes in the branch’s docs; decisions are proposals with a record. Nothing pings you: each morning Wise-Eye prepares what needs you. Keep your chat for chatting.
The usual wayNotion, Google DocsA wiki that’s out of date the week after it’s written, and the rest in people’s heads.
On The GroveEach branch keeps its standing docs — what it’s for, what it offers, where it’s up to — and the playbooks for its work. The agents read them to do the work, and write back what they learn.
The usual wayChatGPT, ClaudeA chat window per person. You paste the context in, and it can only talk.
On The GroveWise-Eye already knows your organisation: its branches, its work, its docs. It acts within what you’re allowed to do — lands the task on the right board, drafts the proposal, builds the website — and you approve what matters.
The usual wayZapier, MakeWired between tools by whoever knows how, and broken quietly when one of them changes.
On The GroveConnect a source, like an inbox, and the agent sorts what arrives into tasks on the right branch and drafts the replies. It learns from your corrections, then offers to handle the routine itself.
The usual wayA meeting, a poll, LoomioThen someone has to remember what was agreed, and make it happen.
On The GroveWise-Eye helps shape the proposal. It’s heard by the people whose part it touches, and an honest objection is heard first. When it settles, the change becomes work: a new duty, and a date to look back.
The usual wayOfficevibe, a yearly surveyA score on a slide, a quarter after it mattered.
On The GroveAnyone can call a sensing. Everyone says what they see, need and fear, and the themes gather as they arrive. Where people converge becomes work, or simply shared awareness. Every voice weighs the same.
The usual wayWix, SquarespaceA builder, a domain from somewhere else, and a form that emails someone’s inbox.
On The GroveWise-Eye drafts it from what your organisation already says. Each section is held by the branch it belongs to, and a message through it arrives as a task. Step by step, below.
The usual wayBuy a domain from a registrar. Most builders give you one free for the first year; after that it’s about $10–23 a year to renew.
On The Groveyourorg.the-grove.org from the moment you publish. When you want your own domain, it takes three DNS records, and the certificate is issued and renewed for you.
The usual wayOn the builder’s servers, in their template, under their account. Moving means rebuilding.
On The GroveInside your organisation’s own space on the Internet Computer, beside its work, its decisions and its books. The site is part of your organisation, so it goes wherever your organisation goes.
The usual wayPick a template and drag things about, or pay a designer. Wix Core is $29 a month on a yearly plan.
On The GroveWise-Eye drafts it from what your organisation already says — its name, its purpose, its offer — and invents nothing. Ask, and a builder agent writes a whole first pass, looks at it on a desktop and a phone, and fixes what it sees.
The usual wayWhoever has a login. Wix Core includes up to five.
On The GroveEach section is held by the branch it belongs to: Sales writes the offer, whoever holds the brand sets the look. Words can’t change the look, and the look can’t change a word. Each holder publishes their own part.
The usual wayChecking is up to you.
On The GroveFree checks every time: colours you can read, an opening that says what you are, buttons that go somewhere, a way to get in touch. Every change is kept, and any version can be gone back to.
The usual wayThe form emails someone’s inbox. They read it, forward it, and copy it onto the task board.
On The GroveThe message arrives as a task on the branch that holds that section, from the person who sent it, waiting to be answered. Robots are kept out, and a flood is slowed.
The usual wayAnalytics, chat widgets and pixels each load someone else’s code, and bring a cookie banner with them.
On The GroveNo scripts, no cookies and nothing from anyone else. Your organisation counts its own visits (pages, and where people came from, never who they are), so there’s nothing to consent to.
The usual wayGoogle Workspace, from $7 a person a month.
On The GroveNot yet. Addresses like hello@ and finance@ are designed, so sign-ups and password resets land with the people who hold them. Until then, keep your email where it is.
The usual wayAbout $30 a month for the site and its address, before email and before the hours spent moving messages about.
On The GroveInside your plan. Your own domain, if you want one, is the only thing you’d buy elsewhere.
Still growing. Connectors bring in work from the tools you already use, and more arrive all the time. A blog and mail at your organisation’s own address are on the way.
Sources, checked October 2026: Wix · Notion · monday.com · GlassFrog · ChatGPT Business · Claude Team · Zapier · Loomio · Officevibe · Slack · .com renewals · Google Workspace. Prices change; these are list prices on yearly billing.
Plain answers
The beta is small and by invitation. The organisations we take on don’t pay the plan fee; how the AI they use is covered, we agree with each one when we invite them. The struck-out prices are what we expect to charge after the beta. You’ll hear from us well before any of them applies, and you can change plan whenever you like.
Never. Your organisation pays one flat fee, and it’s never per person. Bring in as many people as the work needs.
Because the actions are where the value is. A price per task, proposal or sensing would make people ration exactly the work that makes the organisation run. So nothing you do is priced by the piece.
Your organisation runs on the Internet Computer, which charges for the computing it uses. We buy it for you, inside your plan, so there’s no wallet and no crypto. For a small organisation it comes to a few dollars a month, which is why it never appears as a line of its own.
Not yet. When it comes, you’ll give your organisation one key from your AI provider and choose the model you want for its work. You’ll pay the provider directly, and that AI won’t count against your plan. What you give up is our model testing.
From your plan. It pays for keeping the system running, keeping your organisation connected, the computing it runs on and the AI it uses, with a fair margin on top. It’s a price for a service, never a cut of what you make, and because there are no ties, it has to stay worth paying.
A small, invite-only beta for the few organisations ready to work this way. We agree the terms with each one. One note when there’s something to show.
Under the hood
How an organisation in The Grove senses, leans, grows, dies off, automates and holds its people. Why there’s no throne, why nobody can strip it, and what goes wrong without each part. The long read, for anyone who wants to look underneath.