The licence ledger
IllustrativeThe commercial shape of an internal-technology stack, as a buyer reads it
- Basis of charge
- Per user, per host, per repository, per build minute. Four different meters across one function, and every one of them counts growth.
- Growth condition
- A hire and a new service both raise the bill across several products at once. Neither reduction removes the same lines before the term ends.
- Tier condition
- The capabilities a platform team actually needs frequently sit in the top tier, so the price step is taken for a small part of what the tier contains.
- On exit
- Runbooks, incident history and pipeline definitions sit inside the vendors' schemas — not in an asset you hold.
Shape only — the direction of travel, not a quantity. Your own curve comes from your own renewal schedule.