What you pay for, and what you never lose.

Most software decides what you can do by which plan you are on. We decide it by whether you bought a specific pack. That is the whole gate: one thing you own, checked once, and then the pack is yours.

There is no tier that unlocks a hidden feature. The features are all there, for free. A license adds packs of maintained content on top. If you never buy a pack, you still have a complete, working tool.

This is the promise we hold ourselves to the hardest. If a capability ever shipped to everyone for free, it does not later become paid. We will not take something you rely on and put a price on it.

Here is a real example. While building the first paid pack, the Agency pack, we found the engine was missing two things: packs could not add their own triggers, and blueprints could not be scheduled. We shipped both of those free, for every user, in the very same release that put the paid pack on sale. The capability went to everyone. The pack is what you buy.

A license unlocks the premium packs you own and keeps them current. That is it. It does not switch on core features, and it does not reach into what you already have.

Your packs are yours forever. If a license lapses, everything you installed keeps working exactly as it did. Renewal is only about getting the year’s new and updated packs and priority support, never about keeping what you already own.

So the promise is concrete, here are the things we have decided against, on purpose:

• No database licensing. Your right to use what you own is not a row we can flip off.
• No upsell banners in the command-line tool. The software you run does not nag you to buy.
• No online re-validation. The license is checked offline; your software never sends your data to Orionfold, and it never has to check in with us to keep working.
• No expiry that disables installed packs. When a term ends, your installed packs keep running.