How PreShiftIQ™ Is Paid

Any client (the company evaluating technology) being helped to choose software should know who is paying for the help. Here is our answer, in full, including the number.

PreShiftIQ charges the client, the company evaluating technology, nothing: no engagement fee, no retainer, no hourly rate, no subscription. Vendors pay one published rate: 5 percent of first-year subscription value, due only when the matched client pays the vendor. There is no lead fee, nothing is owed before a client engages, and the terms are the same for every vendor in every category.

PreShiftIQ charges the client nothing.

There is no engagement fee, no retainer, no hourly rate, no subscription. Clients across the supply chain ecosystem use the assessment and receive their matches at no cost, and no invoice follows. We are not a consultancy and we do not sell hours.

Vendors pay one rate, on outcomes.

5% of first-year subscription value

Due only when the matched client pays the vendor. There is no lead fee, no fee to accept a match, and nothing owed before a client chooses to engage. The rate is the same for every vendor in every category, and it is not negotiated: a vendor who will not participate on these terms does not participate. Vendors pay for outcomes, never for influence.

The full terms are in the vendor term sheet.

Vendors: claim or complete your scorecard

What money cannot buy.

This is the part that matters, and it is short.

What a vendor pays never enters the matching math. Fee data lives outside the scoring path, and an automated test guards that boundary. No vendor can buy a score or a place on a shortlist, by any means, at any price.

The same holds for inclusion in the catalog and for position on a client’s shortlist. There is no amount that changes any of these, because the mechanism that produces them cannot read the mechanism that produces fees.

That separation is built into the platform rather than promised by us. Scoring runs against interview-validated vendor records and the client’s own stated requirements. Every score, every match, and every change to either is written to an immutable record with attribution and a timestamp.

Why we publish the rate.

So there is nothing to wonder about. One number, the same for everyone, means no vendor has a better deal, no client has to guess whether a vendor paid more to be seen, and no conversation with us begins with a negotiation. The rate is deliberately below what vendors pay their own referral partners, because we want every vendor in the category participating and every client seeing the whole field.

The number is public. The number still does not move the answer, and the section above is how we make that verifiable rather than a matter of trust.