weekly.ai’s Sixty-Seventh Edition 🎉

Meta just did something wild.

It released a 30-billion-parameter AI model called Muse Glimmer under an open Apache 2.0 license, designed to run on a regular Mac or PC without sending anything to the cloud.

Translation for a small operator:

A capable AI teammate you can download once, run offline, and never pay a monthly subscription for.

That is a big deal when your customer data, contracts, financials, and internal documents are the exact things you’ve been nervous about pasting into someone else’s chatbot.

We’ll get deeper into it later. Can Facebook be trusted when they’ve had privacy issues in the past?

Here’s what else is packed into this edition:

Let’s jump right in.

Here is a truth most small business owners feel but rarely act on…

Your prices are probably too low.

Not by a little.

By a lot.

You have raised your quality, added new features, taken on harder clients, improved your process, and eaten every single input cost hike for two years running.

Meanwhile, your pricing page has not changed since the summer you launched.

That is not “being competitive.”

That is quietly slashing your margins.

What do you do about it?

You need a smart second brain that can look at your offer, your customers, and your market with fresh eyes and tell you exactly where you are underpriced, by how much, and how to raise prices without losing your best clients.

Paste this into ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Gemini, or your AI tool of choice.

Feed it your current pricing, your typical customer, and a rough sense of your competitors.

Get back a plan you can act on this week.

You are the Pricing Power Prompt, a sharp pricing strategist for small business owners who suspect they are underpriced but cannot tell exactly where, by how much, or how to fix it without breaking customer trust.

Your job is to take my current pricing, a snapshot of my ideal customer, and any market context I share, then turn it into a specific, executable pricing update that grows revenue per customer without gutting my base.

Work like a pricing coach, not a spreadsheet.

Push back on lazy pricing, including round numbers with no logic, discounts that undercut positioning, and tiers that all look the same.

Tell me where I have real pricing power and where I do not.

First, orient yourself.

Ask me:

• what I sell
• my current price points
• my average deal size
• my typical customer
• one thing I already suspect is wrong with my pricing

Do not proceed until I have shared this.

Then analyze in four passes:

1. Value Gap
Where is the customer getting far more value than they are paying for? Quantify it in dollars, hours, or outcomes.

2. Anchor Check
Are my prices anchored to my costs or to the customer’s outcome? Show me the difference.

3. Tier Logic
Do my packages create a clear “good, better, best” ladder, or do they compete with each other? Flag any tier that most people would skip.

4. Objection Map
What price objections do I hear most, and which are real value objections versus habit objections?

Recommend three pricing moves, ranked by revenue impact and rollout risk.

For each move, give me:

• the exact new price
• the reason behind it
• the risk level
• the customer segment affected
• one sentence to say to an existing customer if they push back

Write a short Loyalty Grandfather Script that keeps my best current customers happy while new pricing goes live.

Close with three metrics to watch over the next 60 days so I know if the move worked.

Do not recommend a blanket 10% increase.

That is lazy.

Every move must be tied to a specific value driver or gap.

Do not assume enterprise pricing tactics.

My audience is small business, and my sales cycle is short.

If my inputs are too vague to give a confident answer, ask for exactly one more piece of information at the end of your reply.

Do not give me a wall of questions.

Section 1: What I Heard
Give me 3 bullets that prove you understood my business.

Section 2: The Four Passes
Break down Value Gap, Anchor Check, Tier Logic, and Objection Map.

Section 3: Top 3 Pricing Moves
Include new prices, rationale, revenue impact, and rollout risk.

Section 4: Loyalty Grandfather Script
Give me a customer-friendly script for existing clients.

Section 5: 60-Day Watchlist
Give me three metrics to monitor after the pricing change.

To start, tell me what you sell, your current pricing, your typical customer, and the one pricing decision you are most nervous about changing.

Open ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Gemini, or your preferred AI tool.

Copy the full prompt above.

Before you paste it in, gather:

• your current pricing
• your packages or tiers
• your average deal size
• your best customer type
• your most common price objections
• any recent cost increases
• competitor pricing, if you have it
• the offer you are most nervous about changing

Paste the prompt into your AI tool.

Answer the questions.

Then review the pricing moves it recommends.

Look closely at:

• where you are undercharging
• which package has the most pricing power
• which customer segment can handle an increase
• which discount is hurting your positioning
• which price objection is actually a value problem
• which customers should be grandfathered

Then pick one pricing move to test this month.

Not ten.

One.

Raise the new client price.
Tighten a package.
Remove a weak discount.
Add a premium tier.
Grandfather loyal customers while updating new pricing.

That is how pricing gets easier.

One clean move at a time.

Run this once a quarter.

Pricing is not a one-time decision.

It is a habit.

The businesses that quietly raise prices twice a year almost always beat the ones that raise prices once every three years and pray no one notices.

And remember:

A price increase is not rude when the value is there.

It is just your business finally telling the truth.

AI stories that matter to founders, entrepreneurs, and small business owners.

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Usage-based and hybrid pricing models are changing how B2B companies generate revenue — and creating new headaches for the finance teams behind them.

Tabs co-founder Rebecca Schwartz and PwC Partner Amit Dhir sat down to unpack exactly what that means in practice: how pricing model decisions ripple into revenue recognition, forecasting, and financial ops — and what it takes to scale without piling on manual work.

Watch the on-demand recording to get practical frameworks, real-world examples, and a clear path to operationalizing usage-based revenue — including a forward-looking take on how AI will reshape financial workflows. If your team is navigating pricing complexity heading into the back half of the year, this is worth an hour.

Watch the recording now

Big news to share. We were recently recognized on the Inc. 5000 list of America’s fastest growing private companies. 

This is the fifth consecutive year this honor has been given to us.

And not only that. We placed 710 out of 5,000.

I’m beyond grateful.

Until next week,