Figures re-checked2026-09-07StationUTC+1Operatorone person
Rule: a number without a source does not exist
House rule: three dated runs before sale; status per system below
Nothing ships until it has run three times.
RanThrice is a one-person operating studio. We build and run our own web infrastructure (two production sites, a press desk, an AI-visibility measurement rig), then sell the exact playbooks, Node tools and cost ledgers that survived contact with reality. Twelve months of dated updates included. Zeros included forever.
LOG 00 // Raw capture ledgerGrade A = first-party capture, dated · Grade B = dated read of a third-party page
Date
Ground
Entry
Reading
Grade
2026-09-07
ranthrice.com
What a .com actually costs at Cloudflare Registrar, read on the invoice
$10.46 per year, the same figure on all three of our domains (riin-art.com 2026-06-02, wiserstaff.com 2026-06-26, ranthrice.com 2026-09-06), each an invoice in the account, not a price page
GRADE A
2026-09-07
ranthrice.com
Run 1 of the no-terminal path: Cloudflare Drop, from upload to a live domain
5 min 29 s from the claimed Worker (23:24:21 UTC) to the registered zone (23:29:50 UTC); the site was live on its own domain the same hour, on the free plan
GRADE A
2026-09-07
ranthrice.com
The zero of run 1: a zip built by Windows PowerShell shipped a broken site
every nested page returned the homepage: the archive stored its paths with backslashes, so folders were read as flat names and the headers file was ignored
GRADE A
2026-09-05
ranthrice.com
Keyword research for the 54-topic blog plan (DataForSEO Labs, Google US)
$0.41 spent · written cap $1.00 · 18 discovery + 2 overview + 2 SERP calls
GRADE A
2026-09-03
wiserstaff.com
Competitor price bench, read on the vendors own pricing pages
11 third-party price reads: 8 on the vendor's own pricing page, 3 indirect and marked secondary
GRADE B
2026-08-31
wiserstaff.com
PageSpeed Insights, 13 URLs on mobile
8 scored 100 · the other 5 between 90 and 99
GRADE A
2026-08-30
wiserstaff.com
Production site, live build on the Cloudflare free tier
53 URLs · $0/month hosting (the domain, at registry cost, is the only bill)
GRADE A
2026-08-28
wiserstaff.com
Press pitches sent, written by hand, zero automation
5 pitches · 3 live accounts · 1 marked “selected” on 2026-09-03, 0 published
Every system below stays readable; selecting a door highlights your trajectory, it hides nothing.
02 // SYSTEMS DEPLOYED
On the shipping bench
Admitted for sale only after Gate 0, three dated runs with captures; the gate status is on each card. Each price was decided on a stated date against one-time comparables and becomes final when the payment rail is tested; nothing is on sale before that test.
The month you stop paying for the suite, use DataForSEO's pay-as-you-go APIs instead, with the cost of every call known before it is made and a playbook for each job.
OVERVIEW
Will never quote a price the documentation does not print. The manual reads your account's price grid; it does not carry a tariff.
CALIBRATION 2026-08-26 · 134 billed calls, $2.35, one evening, both MCP servers: a Bing organic endpoint truncating keywords server-side, the `cost` field dropped in API v2, bulk keyword difficulty left unscored, AI-mode fields empty in v3. Blog plan of 2026-09-06: 54 topics benched for $0.41 with a written cap of $1.00.
Instrument: the DataForSEO account ledger (`id_list`) for 2026-08-26 and 2026-09-05, kept in dated audit folders.
DataForSEO: $0.60 to $2.00 per 1,000 SERP results, $50 minimum deposit, about +20% on 2026-07-01PRIMARYsource
Third-party DataForSEO guides: free blog articles; a paid manual equivalent: none found on 2026-09-03PRIMARY
Semrush $117.33 to $455.67 / month on annual billing and Ahrefs $29 (Starter) to $449 (Advanced) / month, Enterprise at $1,499 (read 2026-09-07): the subscriptions the manual is written to leave, shown for contextPRIMARYsource
By-the-Call SEO Manual: $149 once.
$149decided, final at G-Rail · 12 months of dated updates · no subscription
Triage the free journalist-request feeds in a daily routine (about ten minutes, our estimate, not yet timed), with decision rules and scripts that stay inside every platform's terms of service.
OVERVIEW
Will never write pitches for you and never sends an email. That is doctrine, not a missing feature.
GATE 0 PROOF ✓: runs 2026-08-21 to 28GATE 1 BENCH · READ 2026-09-07, price decided against one-time comparablesG-RAIL PENDING
RUN PROOF
RUN 2026-08-21 · 49 cards → 6 worth reading → 0 usable leads in the default feeds. 512 opportunities on one filtered search, no pitch credit spent. 5 pitches written by hand and sent by 2026-08-28 from 3 live accounts; one marked “selected” by an outlet on 2026-09-03, nothing published yet.
Instrument: manual triage of the free request feeds, logged 2026-08-21 to 24; pitch registry 2026-08-28; press platform screens re-read 2026-09-03.
JustReachOut Starter: $147 / month, 100 emails a monthPRIMARYsource
Featured.com Pro: about $50 / month plus credits, from a third-party comparison, not confirmed on the vendor pageSECONDARY
Press Radar: $149 once, scripts included. It triages free request feeds; it does not send your emails or hold a journalist database. Read the prices as context, not as a swap.
$149decided, final at G-Rail · 12 months of dated updates · no subscription
The path after the switch to a static stack. The steps we ran, the official free-tier limits with the date they were read, the traps we paid for with their dates, and the real bills (domain at registry cost, an AI subscription if you use one, hosting at $0/month on the free tier).
OVERVIEW
Will never claim a universal audience or a route without code. The kit needs a text editor, a browser, and for path B a Git client. It sells no authentication and no billing system.
GATE 0 PROOF ✓: the sold path ran on 4 sites; three runs dated, one (riin-art.com) with its migration date still to be readGATE 1 BENCH · READ 2026-09-07, price decided against one-time comparablesG-RAIL PENDING
RUN PROOF
PRODUCTION PROOF · The domain is the whole recurring bill: $10.46 a year, read on three Cloudflare Registrar invoices (2026-06-02, 2026-06-26, 2026-09-06); hosting has cost $0/month on the Cloudflare free tier since June 2026. wiserstaff.com: 53 URLs live on 2026-08-30, sitemap and structured data. PageSpeed Insights 2026-08-31, 13 URLs on mobile: 8 scored 100, the other 5 between 90 and 99.
Instrument: the monthly hosting invoice ($0) and PageSpeed Insights runs, both kept in dated audit folders. The readings come from wiserstaff.com, which has run on this stack since 2026-06-27; its sitemap and PageSpeed scores can be re-read by anyone on the live site. ranthrice.com itself has run on this path since 2026-09-07; riin-art.com is served by Cloudflare (response header read 2026-09-05).
ShipFast: $199 once (list price $299) · Makerkit Pro: $349 lifetime, Next.js boilerplates with auth and billing; hosting is a separate billPRIMARYsource
Astro theme packs, all-access: $119 to $137; single Astro themes $29 to $97SECONDARYsource
The Domain-Only Website Kit: $129 once. The Rig, with the audit scripts and the corridor: $249. Sits below the boilerplates (a different object: they ship auth and billing) and inside the range of the theme packs as read indirectly. Beside it, for context only: a $9 to $29 per month host costs $108 to $348 in the first year.
$129decided, final at G-Rail · 12 months of dated updates · no subscription
Measure, per engine and per campaign, whether an AI answer cites a site, with the cost of every API call written down and the engine always named.
OVERVIEW
Will never promise you will “rank in ChatGPT”. Nobody can. We sell the instrument.
GATE 0 PROOF PARTIAL: protocol ran; zeros on record; fewer than 3 dated executionsGATE 1 BENCH · READ 2026-09-07, price decided against one-time comparablesG-RAIL PENDING
RUN PROOF
PROTOCOL 2026-08 · Copilot: 1,039 citations of wiserstaff.com in five days, 97% on vendor-brand queries, 6 of 35 pages produce all of them. Perplexity and Google: 0 of 12, seventh week running.
Instrument: Bing Webmaster AI Performance and Clarity for the Copilot side (same Microsoft data, counted once); a scripted browser run for Perplexity and Google. “The AIs cite us” is not a sentence we write; the engine is always named.
Profound: $99 Starter, $399 Growth, per month on annual billingPRIMARYsource
AI Citation Meter: $199 once, protocol and the four probes. If you need daily tracking, buy Otterly. Ours is a per-campaign measurement you run on the raw APIs, with every call costed.
$199decided, final at G-Rail · 12 months of dated updates · no subscription
Toolkits currently running inside our operation, queued for packaging.
Text-Hygiene EngineWatermark and text-hygiene engine (MIT, ours): invisible Unicode, document metadata, C2PA provenance: the verifiable layers. Statistical desynchronisation is declared unverifiable, in writing, since 2026-08-14.IN PRODUCTION USE
By-the-Call SEO ManualThe SEO-data doctrine paid for in real API calls: budget gates, 9 playbooks, cost ledger.IN PRODUCTION USE
Affiliate Disclosure LayerDisclosure patterns, an edge-hosted /go/ redirect layer, link registry and link-health audit.IN PRODUCTION USE
The Blog Production LineOur 11-gate article pipeline: process and checklists, rebuilt clean-room.REWRITE QUEUED
04 // OBSERVATORY CODE
House rules
Version 1.1, effective 2026-09-07. Applied to every product, every page, every claim. Full text and changelog.
RULE 01
Dated proof or it doesn't exist
Every number carries its source and date. Anything unverified says so in writing, in the open register.
RULE 02
We publish our zeros
Failed runs and zero results are printed above the buy button in amber, like an honest loss.
RULE 03
You own everything, forever
Zero-dependency code, $0/month hosting stacks (the domain is your bill), files delivered. Twelve months of dated updates are the only recurrence. No subscription.
RULE 04
We only sell what we own
No wrappers, no borrowed IP, no detector evasion. Every archive ships with LICENSE and NOTICE.
What you will never read here Earnings promises · “no experience needed” · “risk-free” · fake scarcity counters · guaranteed rankings or AI citations. If a page promises income, it is a bug and fixed as one.
05 // TELEMETRY EXTRACT
Chapter one of Press Radar, free
The anatomy of a journalist-request card, the dated result of our first run (49 → 6 → 0), and the 12-block table of contents.
One email with the extract, then dated notes when systems ship. No daily sequences. Unsubscribe anytime. Marketing consent is its own box, never pre-ticked.
06 // UNVERIFIED LOG
Unverified as of 2026-09-07
The part of the ledger most shops keep in a drawer.
Whether these prices hold: Decided on 2026-09-07 against one-time comparables read the same day. No sale yet. If a price moves, this page says why and when.
Which system ships next: The Domain-Only Website Kit goes on sale first. The By-the-Call SEO Manual and Press Radar follow if it sells, decided by paying strangers, not by this page and not by us on paper.
Team licence price: The market runs ×1.86 to ×4.4 the solo price (median ×3.3, read 2026-09-03). Not offered yet.
Time-to-first-sale without urgency tactics: Unknown. This site is the experiment.
Done-for-you studio: Parked. Products only for now.
Second language: English first until updates keep pace.