Fee: USD 99

We clarify issues related to AI tools, SEO, social media, affiliate journeys, and web media operations, then identify the current bottlenecks and the next practical steps.

This consultation is for teams that want to assess their current position quickly and distinguish immediate priorities from work that can wait.

Topics We Can Cover

• AI tool selection and usage policy
• Improvement direction for web media or blogs
• Structural improvements for SEO and review content
• Connecting social posts with article journeys
• Reviewing affiliate journeys
• Pre-launch discussion for a new media property
• Clarifying current operational issues
• Confirming priorities

Deliverables

• 60-minute online consultation
• Verbal guidance during the consultation
• Brief notes where appropriate

Important Notes

This service is intended to clarify issues and provide direction within the consultation period.
It does not include a detailed audit report, blueprint, implementation work, or outsourced article production.

Fee: USD 169

The service includes a 90-minute online consultation and a written improvement memo based on the discussion.

It is designed for teams that want a written record of specific improvement priorities and next actions.

Topics We Can Cover

• Improvement direction for an existing site or articles
• Prioritizing media operations
• Reviewing production workflows that use AI tools
• Connecting SEO, social, and monetization journeys
• Clarifying article themes and category architecture
• Improving affiliate journeys
• Clarifying inquiry journeys
• Prioritizing the next initiatives

Deliverables

• 90-minute online consultation
• Improvement memo
• Prioritized action items

Important Notes

This service is intended to organize improvement direction and action items.
It does not guarantee search rankings, sales, revenue, or growth in social media followers.

Fee: USD 279

We review your existing website, blog, media property, or service pages and organize the points that need improvement.

The findings are translated into a practical action plan for the seven days following the audit.

Audit Scope

• Home page
• Key articles and pages
• Service journeys
• Calls to action and inquiry journeys
• SEO structure
• Social and external pathways
• Affiliate journeys
• Content placement
• Reader journeys
• Monetization journeys

Deliverables

• Website audit report
• Seven-day improvement plan
• Prioritized improvements
• Page-structure proposals where appropriate

Important Notes

This service does not include advertising management, guaranteed search rankings, guaranteed sales, or implementation work.

It is an audit service intended to present improvement direction and an implementation plan.

Fee: USD 399

We prepare an initial plan for teams launching a new media property, blog, review site, or specialist information site.

The blueprint covers theme selection, category architecture, editorial direction, social integration, and the basic monetization journey.

Planning Scope

• Media concept
• Target audience
• Category architecture
• Initial article ideas
• SEO direction
• Social media integration
• Affiliate and inquiry journeys
• Initial 30-day action plan

Deliverables

• Media launch blueprint
• Initial category proposal
• Initial article ideas
• 30-day action plan

Important Notes

This service does not include website development, outsourced article writing, advertising management, or guaranteed revenue.

Its purpose is to establish a pre-launch strategy and implementation plan.

Fee: from USD 699

In addition to the Lite scope, the Standard plan includes more detailed competitor mapping, content-cluster planning, monetization and social journeys, and operational priorities.

It is intended for teams that want to build a new media property as an improvable business asset rather than a collection of one-off articles.

Planning Scope

• Media concept
• Target audience
• Competitor-media mapping
• Category architecture
• Initial content-cluster design
• Journey design for comparison and review content
• SEO direction
• Social media integration
• Affiliate and inquiry journeys
• Monetization-journey design
• Initial 30- to 90-day action plan

Deliverables

• Media launch blueprint
• Category-architecture proposal
• Initial article ideas
• Monetization-journey proposal
• Social-media journey proposal
• Prioritized action plan

Important Notes

This service does not include website development, outsourced article writing, advertising management, or guaranteed revenue.

Its purpose is to establish the pre-launch strategy, user journeys, and implementation plan.

FSR SELECT: USD 3,000

Using the public evidence layer maintained by Future Stack Reviews, Future Stack LLC compares up to three AI or SaaS products against the customer’s requirements, provides a clearly identified primary recommendation, manages customer-approved vendor inquiries, and can extend the engagement into a controlled pilot and approved launch stabilization.

The customer retains final responsibility for product selection, contracting, purchasing, expenditure, data and access boundaries, pilot approval, and production approval.

FSR SELECT — USD 3,000

For organizations that need a specific primary recommendation rather than a generic product list.

• One target workflow, up to three candidate products, and two customer interviews
• Review of official information, published pricing, contract and cancellation terms, data-handling and security documentation, and usage limits
• Where available and approved, limited hands-on checking of up to two products
• Customer-approved inquiries to up to three vendors
• One initial question set and one factual follow-up
• Clearly identified primary recommendation, alternative, and excluded candidates
• Recommended GO, CONDITIONAL GO, HOLD, or NO-GO status

FSR SELECT Deliverables

• Adoption requirements report
• Product comparison table
• Cost and TCO scenarios
• Five-sheet decision and delivery ledger
• Open-questions register
• Approved vendor inquiries and response analysis
• Recommendation and exclusion rationale
• Customer final-approval record

Unanswered matters are recorded as unconfirmed or HOLD. Cost, ROI, revenue, and savings are presented as assumption-based scenarios, not guaranteed outcomes.

Typical delivery: 15–20 business days after required inputs are received. Vendor-response waiting time is tracked separately.

FSR VALIDATE

Total fee through FSR VALIDATE: USD 6,000, including FSR SELECT.

For organizations that need to confirm whether the selected product can work within a controlled business scope.

• One selected product, one workflow, one department, up to ten users, and one environment
• Pilot period of up to four weeks in a customer-owned account
• Named, time-limited, least-privilege access
• MFA, administrator, sharing, notification, and spending-control setup
• Configuration through standard product features
• Pilot using synthetic or masked data
• Normal, error, duplicate, stop, recovery, and acceptance testing
• Production-readiness recommendation

The customer creates and owns the account, enters into the vendor agreement, and pays the vendor directly. Future Stack performs the approved configuration work within the delegated scope.

FSR VALIDATE Deliverables

• Limited-pilot plan and configuration baseline
• Access and data-boundary matrix
• Test and acceptance record
• Issue, change, and vendor-ticket log
• Stop and recovery procedure
• Production-readiness decision record

FSR LAUNCH 30

Total fee through FSR LAUNCH 30: USD 8,500, including FSR SELECT and FSR VALIDATE.

For organizations moving the validated scope into production with 30 days of stabilization support.

• The product and workflow scope approved during FSR VALIDATE
• One production environment and up to ten users
• Initial user setup and application of approved settings to the production environment
• Stop and recovery confirmation before go-live
• Basic administrator and user guidance and operating instructions
• Thirty calendar days from the customer-approved go-live date
• Up to four review meetings and five minor configuration changes
• Vendor-incident triage and inquiry management
• Administrator handover and customer sign-off at the end of Day 30

Bulk production-data migration, custom APIs, custom code, and 24/7 monitoring are not included.

Future Stack OPERATE

USD 800 per month — separate agreement after FSR LAUNCH 30.

• One product and up to ten users
• One monthly review
• Up to five administrative requests and five support inquiries
• Usage and cost review
• Pricing, terms, and major-update checks
• Vendor-inquiry management and minor configuration changes
• Monthly operating report and ledger update

24/7 monitoring, unlimited support, operation of the customer’s business process, responsibility for resolving vendor-side outages, and custom development are not included.

Standard and No-Code Integration Add-On

Add-on: from USD 1,500, charged in addition to the applicable package total.

• One source, one destination, and one normally one-way workflow
• Up to three automations and ten mapped fields
• Native product integration or a no-code platform
• Synthetic or masked-data testing
• Duplicate, failure, stop, and recovery testing
• Integration specification, field map, and operating, stop, and recovery instructions
• One 60-minute handover session

Phase 1 is limited to reversible operations such as record creation, approved updates, and notifications. Automated deletion, payments, public publishing, bulk messaging, custom APIs, custom code, bidirectional master-data synchronization, SSO, SCIM, and core-system integration are excluded.

Responsibility Boundaries

• Future Stack Reviews (FSR): maintains the public evidence base, comparison materials, verification dates, and correction and update history
• Future Stack LLC: contracts for and delivers this service, maps customer requirements, compares and recommends products, manages approved vendor inquiries, performs approved configuration, and maintains delivery records
• Customer: owns the final selection and approvals, account, vendor agreement and payment, data and access boundaries, pilot start, and production start
• Product vendor: remains responsible for product functionality, terms, SLA commitments, official security commitments, and resolution of vendor-side outages

Vendor Inquiries

Customers do not need to draft and send vendor questions themselves. Future Stack identifies the appropriate vendor contact, drafts and translates the questions, sends the customer-approved inquiry, follows up, preserves the response, checks it against public information, and updates the decision ledger.

The customer approves the questions, recipient, identity and information to disclose, trial requests, and any move into quotation or contract discussions. Future Stack performs non-binding information collection and has no authority to accept product terms or enter into a contract on the customer’s behalf.

Referral Compensation

Future Stack LLC may receive referral compensation from certain product vendors. The existence or amount of referral compensation is not used to select candidates, score products, or determine recommendation order. Candidates, scores, and recommendation order are recorded in the decision ledger before any referral registration. Future Stack uses only approved official programs, discloses the relevant relationship, and obtains customer consent before referring or registering the opportunity with a vendor. Future Stack does not claim both affiliate and referral compensation for the same customer transaction.

The product agreement, purchase, and payment remain directly between the customer and the product vendor.

Use of AI

Codex and other AI tools may support official-source review, comparisons, vendor questions, cost scenarios, configuration procedures, test cases, ledger checks, documentation, and error investigation. Future Stack reviews the output and remains responsible for the delivered work.

Customer confidential information, personal data, passwords, API keys, and production data are not entered into external AI services without customer approval and appropriate usage terms.

Exclusions

• Product resale, contract agency, and contracting, purchasing, or paying in the customer’s name
• Product selection based on referral compensation
• Unconditional ROI, revenue, or cost-saving guarantees
• Custom APIs, custom code, and bulk production-data migration
• Bidirectional master-data synchronization, core systems, SSO, SCIM, VPN, and on-premises integration
• 24/7 monitoring, strict SLA guarantees, and responsibility for resolving vendor-side outages
• Full outsourcing of the customer’s business process
• Legal, tax, audit, or professional security opinions

Fully Synthetic Sample

Public deliverable samples are fully synthetic examples provided only to demonstrate format and structure. They are not customer work, implementation results, vendor responses, performance outcomes, or referral-compensation cases.