AI features that pay for themselves — and then some.
Draftwing's AI drafting was their most-loved feature and their scariest cost line: usage grew faster than revenue, and one power user could burn a month of margin in a weekend. With CMD+K Monetize they moved to included credits plus prepaid packs — and AI flipped from cost center to their fastest-growing SKU.
Fictional proposal-writing SaaS · AI-native · 12,000 seats
Flat-rate pricing met unbounded AI usage. Finance saw model invoices growing 30% month over month with no matching revenue line, and nobody could say which customers or features burned the spend.
Attribute every token
Each AI interaction is metered per user and per feature. For the first time, Draftwing could see that 4% of users drove 61% of model spend.
usage → user · feature · modelSet the economics, not just a price
Plans include monthly credits sized to typical usage; heavy use tops up with prepaid credit packs. Coefficients per model keep margin predictable.
1 reply = coefficient × creditsCaps that protect margin automatically
Per-user hard caps auto-pause runaway usage — no human ops, no surprise invoice, no awkward email after the fact.
Forward revenue to their own billing
Usage lands in Draftwing's own billing account as meter events. They own the customer, the pricing page, and the margin.
no marketplace cut“Pricing AI stopped being a philosophy debate. Credits in, credits out, margin visible per user.”
Illustrative scenario — Draftwing is a fictional company; numbers show the shape of the outcome, not a measured result.