Pricing

The brief is free. Paid tiers keep it that way.

The daily brief is free, forever — a real promise, not a teaser. The paid tiers below unlock the full archive, the interactive “Should I worry?” tool, and the weekly long-form regime note. The reason they exist is plain: running real infrastructure (hosting, AI inference, market data, email delivery) costs real money, and we’d rather have paying readers keep the brief free than put a paywall on the brief itself.

Daily Brief

Free · Forever

One five-minute calibrated read every weekday morning, before the open. Plain English. Calm by default. The methodology is published openly and version-stamped — anyone with public ETF data can reproduce a day’s call.

  • One brief, every weekday before the U.S. market opens
  • Last 14 days of the archive (older briefs require a paid tier)
  • Open methodology — reproducible from public ETF data
  • Unsubscribe with one click at the bottom of any email

Free. One email a day. Unsubscribe anytime.

Monthly Supporter

$14 / month · Cancel anytime

The low-friction path to unlock the full surface. No annual commitment. Launch promotional rate against a planned standard rate of $29.95/month (53% off). Rate will move to standard in Q3 2026 with 30 days’ notice; cancel anytime.

  • Everything in the free daily brief
  • Full /archive access — every brief back to day one
  • The "Should I worry?" tool — paste any headline, get a calibrated calm read in 15 seconds
  • Weekly Thursday-evening long-form regime note (first edition June 18, 2026)
  • Cancel anytime via Stripe customer portal — no friction, no questions
Become a Monthly Supporter · $14/mo
Best value · Limited seats

Founding Member

$99 / year · $8.25/mo equivalent100 of 100 seats remaining

72% off the planned standard rate. Future standard pricing is $29.95/month. Founding Members lock in $99/year (= $8.25/month) for 36 months — that’s ~$780 in savings over three years vs standard. After 36 months you can renew at standard or cancel; we give 30 days’ notice.

The first 100 readers who buy in get founder status: permanent acknowledgment, a numbered Founding Member badge, and the lowest rate Macro Lens will ever offer. The tier exists to make the publication economically sustainable from day one without putting the brief itself behind a paywall.

  • Everything in Monthly Supporter (full archive, /worry tool, weekly long-form note)
  • 36-month price lock at $99/year (72% off planned standard)
  • Numbered Founding Member acknowledgment — permanent record on /about
  • Founder badge in your brief email footer (rolls out week 2)
  • Founder-direct email replies — questions land in Lindsay's inbox, not a queue
  • First access to Portfolio Pulse and Advisor tiers when they open
Become a Founding Member · $99/yr

Portfolio Pulse

$19 / month · Opens July 30, 2026

For active and swing traders who want calibrated macro context layered above their own trades. The morning regime read that ThinkOrSwim, Schwab, and Robinhood don’t ship — translated for the rest of us, every session, with intraday alerts when the state actually shifts.

  • Everything in Monthly Supporter
  • Intraday regime alerts — emailed the moment the engine state changes
  • Intermarket dashboard — all six sector-rotation ratios, live
  • Watchlist-keyed context — see the regime read for sectors you actually trade
  • Friday weekly debrief — what changed, what held, what to watch into Monday

Advisor / Pro

$199 / month · Opens Q3 2026

Built for RIAs, family offices, financial advisors, and brokers whose clients have started asking calibrated macro questions their existing tools don’t answer. Multi-seat, white-label-ready, and licensable for client-facing context.

  • Everything in Portfolio Pulse
  • Up to 10 seats per firm; custom multi-seat pricing above
  • White-label PDF brief — your firm's letterhead, our calibrated read
  • Compliance-friendly: the brief is a publication, not investment advice; we never recommend specific securities
  • Advisor briefing call with the founder for the first 25 firms

The math, plainly

Standard pricing (planned for Q3 2026): $29.95/month = $359.40/year. Monthly Supporter today: $14/month = 53% off standard. Founding Member: $99/year = $8.25/month = 72% off standard, locked 36 months. Over three years, a Founding Member pays $297 vs $1,078 at standard — savings of $781.

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Syndication & licensing

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