Questions, answered honestly.
No hype and no guarantees. Here is how ewpire actually works, and where it deliberately stops short of promising.
Getting started
What is ewpire?
ewpire is a full-cycle AI platform for founders and teams: instead of asking one AI for an opinion, it runs several of the strongest AI models against your product idea at once – each answers independently, then they challenge each other's answers – so you see where the models agree and where they don't. From there it builds a working MVP and helps you get found by AI. The three steps – Ideation, Validation and Traffic – share one account, one credit balance and one project folder, and the output of each step feeds the next.
Who is ewpire for?
Founders, teams, and established companies taking an idea toward a launched, AI-discoverable product – first-time and non-technical founders validating a new idea, product teams shipping an MVP without pulling in engineers, and companies checking how AI assistants describe their brand or product online. No code required, and you can use any of the three steps on its own.
Do I need to know how to code?
No. Validation builds your MVP with a live preview and ships it live in one click, and you own the code. You drive the whole funnel from one dashboard.
How do the three steps connect?
Ideation produces a validated idea and report. That feeds Validation, which turns it into a working MVP. The deployed MVP feeds Traffic, which adds the structured, AI-readable assets answer engines look for to improve the odds it gets described accurately. You can also use any step on its own.
Can I try it before committing?
New accounts get 20 free credits – no card required, and they stay on your balance for 30 days – enough to run a real idea report and try a Traffic run before subscribing. There is no separate free trial flow; the grant is the trial.
Are there limits on a free account?
Two, and they are about capacity rather than features. A free account can start fewer runs per hour than a subscriber, and the two deepest consensus levels – the ones that seat the most frontier models in a single run – need an active plan. Everything else is the same: the same input limits apply to everyone, and the levels a free account can run are genuine multi-model consensus runs, not a demo mode.
When is ewpire not a good fit?
If you need a raw model API to wire into your own stack, a bring-your-own-key setup, or a large-team enterprise tool with custom SSO and contracts, ewpire is not the right fit today (BYOK and enterprise are on the roadmap). It is also not a source of legal, financial or investment advice.
How consensus works
How is a consensus different from asking one AI?
A single model stays confident even when it is wrong. ewpire asks several frontier models independently, has them critique each other's anonymized answers, then synthesizes one answer. The confidence score is measured, not asserted: each model states its own position and conviction, and the score is computed from how many of them landed on the same position and how tightly their reads clustered. The report shows that basis in plain words, and when too few models return a usable position we show no score at all rather than a placeholder.
Which models do you use?
Models from labs like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, DeepSeek, Qwen, Zhipu (GLM) and Moonshot (Kimi) – three to seven of them per run, depending on the depth you pick, routed automatically, with new models added as they ship. You never pick a model or manage an API key. And on an idea report you are not asked to take our word for which models answered: the run records the exact model each seat used and shows it beside that seat, live and again in the saved report.
Do you guarantee my idea will work, or guarantee AI visibility?
No. ewpire provides structured deliberation, not advice, and the confidence score and agreement map are the honest signal. For Traffic we increase the probability that AI models describe your brand accurately and consistently from your structured presence; we never guarantee a citation, ranking, or visibility. It is not legal, financial or medical advice, and we may decline a request that seeks high-harm output.
Can I bring my own AI key (BYOK)?
Not at launch. We run on our own model capacity and route the best model per task, so routing and consensus stay turnkey and there is no key to manage. BYOK is on the roadmap for enterprise use.
Ideation, Validation and Traffic
What does Ideation give me?
A structured intake and a short AI interview, then a consensus report: market sizing (TAM, SAM, SOM), demand and competition reads, a positioning angle, risks, a confidence score, an agreement map of where the models align and diverge, and a clear next step into Validation.
What does Validation build?
A real MVP from your saved idea, with per-task model routing and a consensus QA pass over the generated code. You get a live preview and can ship it live in one click and keep the code. From the dashboard you can download the full source as a .zip or push it to your own GitHub repo as soon as it is built; after the full cycle through Traffic your export also carries its AI-discoverability assets and you can connect your own custom domain.
What does Traffic do?
It generates AI-readable presence (the AEO and GEO assets answer engines look for) and runs a multi-model check of how today's frontier models describe your brand from their training, with a consistency score and a brand dissent map for where they diverge. The honest pitch is higher probability of accurate, consistent description, not a guaranteed citation.
What are AEO and GEO?
Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) and Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) mean making your product legible to answer engines – the AIs like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Mode that summarize and cite instead of returning ten blue links. ewpire's Traffic step generates that presence and audits how the models describe you.
How is ewpire different from AI app builders like Lovable, or from AEO tools?
Most tools do one step: an app builder ships code from a single model, an AEO tool checks your AI visibility. ewpire connects all three – idea vetting, MVP build, and AI-readable presence – on one account, and runs a consensus of several models as a QA layer over each step instead of trusting one. The edge is the connected funnel plus consensus verification, not any single step.
How long does a report or an MVP build take?
An idea report runs in minutes – it is a live consensus deliberation, not an overnight job. An MVP build takes longer and depends on scope; you watch it come together in a live preview rather than waiting blind.
How long does my MVP preview stay online?
A preview we host stays up as long as any one of these is true: the code has been pushed to your own GitHub, a custom domain is connected, the deployment has been through the Make it AI-discoverable step, or your account is on an active paid plan. Otherwise it becomes due for archiving once the deploy is 30 days old, or sooner if a paid plan lapses, and we email you three days before the URL actually goes. Archiving removes the URL and nothing else: your code is not deleted, and the .zip download and the GitHub push still work afterwards. Downloading the .zip is not what holds the URL, though – a download leaves no record on our side, so it cannot keep the preview alive.
Who owns what ewpire builds for me?
You do. The generated MVP code and content are yours. If you delete your account we take down the sites we host for you (unless you ask to keep them running); anything you pushed to your own GitHub or domain stays yours and untouched.
Credits and billing
How much does ewpire cost?
ewpire runs on credits, sold as a subscription with three tiers plus optional top-up packs for active subscribers. Annual billing is the default and includes roughly two months free. Every account starts with 20 free credits, no card required. See the Pricing page for the current plans.
What are credits and how does billing work?
Everything runs on credits. A subscription gives you a monthly credit allowance that refreshes every month and expires at the end of that month; light deliberation draws a few credits and heavy builds draw more. Annual billing is the default and includes roughly two months free – the same monthly credits at a lower price, billed once a year, rather than a year's credits in one pool.
What are top-up packs?
Packs add extra credits mid-cycle for active subscribers. They are a top-up rather than a standalone plan, so they are available once you have an active subscription, and pack credits are valid for 90 days.
Is VAT included?
Prices are shown excluding VAT; tax is calculated at checkout by Stripe Tax based on your billing country. Whether checkout offers you a VAT-number field depends on the account type you chose when you registered. On a business account the field is there, and an EU business with a valid VAT ID may qualify for the reverse charge at 0%, in which case the invoice states that VAT is accounted for by the recipient – whether it applies is worked out at checkout from your country and your number, so it is not automatic. On a personal account there is no VAT-number field, so VAT is charged at your local rate even if you pay from a company card.
Am I buying as a person or as a business?
You answer that once, when you register, and it applies to every purchase after it. Personal means no VAT-number field and VAT charged at your local rate, and you keep the 14-day right to cancel a purchase you have not used. Business means you can enter a VAT number at checkout and the EU reverse charge applies where it qualifies, and in exchange a business purchase carries no 14-day cancellation – the automatic re-credit when a paid action fails to deliver is unaffected. Checkout tells you which of the two it is applying before you pay. It is not a switch you can flip yourself – if it is wrong, email [email protected] before you buy and we will change it. If consumer law protects you anyway, it still protects you: tell us and we will honour it.
What payment methods do you accept?
Credit and debit cards, plus Apple Pay, Google Pay and Link where your device or browser supports them. Checkout may also offer a local bank method in some countries – what appears depends on your country, the currency you are charged in and whether you are buying a subscription or a one-off pack, so the checkout page is the exact list for your purchase. We do not take PayPal, bank transfer or cryptocurrency. Payment runs through Stripe, so your card details never reach our servers.
What will the charge look like on my statement?
EWPIRE.COM – that is the card statement descriptor on every charge, whether it is a subscription or a pack. Pay with a local bank method and your own bank may label the line differently, and a purchase made before we switched descriptors can still show the earlier one on an older statement. If a line does not look familiar, email [email protected] and we will match it to your account.
Can I get a refund?
In two situations. A top-up pack, or your first plan purchase, can be withdrawn within 14 days while it is wholly untouched, straight from your billing settings (for a plan: Cancel plan, then Cancel & refund now). Untouched means no credit spent since it: spend one and the whole purchase stops being refundable, the unused remainder included, because it is digital content you have begun consuming (Article 16(m) of the EU Consumer Rights Directive). Credits handed back to you because something failed do not count as spent. It is all or nothing, never pro rata; the control does not offer a renewal, and a purchase made on a business account is not withdrawable. Separately, a paid action that fails to deliver gives its credits back by itself – a build that ends with no preview, no saved files and no accepted changes refunds every credit it took, without you asking. If a failed action was not re-credited, or you subscribed again after cancelling and think that purchase should still qualify, email [email protected]. Where mandatory consumer law gives you more than this, it prevails.
Can I cancel anytime?
Yes. Cancel whenever you like and keep access through the end of the paid period. Monthly plans are month-to-month with no fees. Cancel an annual plan and your monthly credits keep arriving until the paid year is over, each month's expiring at the end of its own month: the rest of the term is delivered rather than refunded, so there is no pro-rata refund for the remaining months. The one exception is the 14-day withdrawal, and that is a full refund of a first purchase you have not touched, not a refund of part of a year.
Can I change my plan or switch between monthly and annual billing?
Yes, from the Plans section of the Credits page in your dashboard. Upgrades take effect immediately – you pay a prorated difference and this month's credits top up to the new plan's monthly allowance. Switching monthly to annual counts as an upgrade: the annual price is charged straight away, prorated for the month you already paid, and the credits keep arriving monthly in the same amount. Downgrades, and a switch from annual back to monthly, take effect at your next renewal, so you keep what you paid for until then. Switching annual to monthly starts when your paid year ends.
Your data and privacy
Is my data used to train the models?
No. We send only what each task needs, and we use every provider on its commercial API tier, where the terms in force exclude training on API content – the exact commitment varies by provider and tier, and the current list is in our Privacy Policy. Several providers hold content briefly for abuse monitoring and then delete it. See our Privacy Policy and DPA.
Is my idea confidential?
Yes. Your ideas, reports and builds are private to your account – never visible to other users and never used as examples or in marketing without your explicit permission. Model providers process your content under contracts that exclude training on it, and several of them delete it after a short abuse-monitoring window.
How is my data protected?
Encryption in transit, EU data protection, and access controls with audit logging. We do not retain your inference content as a store of record.
Can I delete my account and data?
Yes, anytime from Settings then Account. We revoke your sessions on every device, delete your profile, projects, reports and builds, take down the sites we host for you, and email you a confirmation. Billing and VAT records are kept for the legally required period with your identity removed. You can download your data first.
Can I export my data?
Yes. From the delete screen you can download a single file with your profile, projects, idea reports, builds, deployments, credit history and purchases (GDPR Article 20).
Referrals
Do you have a referral program?
Yes. While your own subscription is active, you earn a one-time 20% of the first month of the first deposit made by each person who signs up through your link, taken before VAT – the whole charge on a monthly plan or a credit pack, and a twelfth of it on an annual plan, since that one payment covers twelve months. They get a one-time bonus of 20% of the credits that deposit actually puts on their balance: the whole pack on a pack, and one month's credits on a plan, on either billing interval. Commissions are held about 30 days, then paid out automatically via Stripe with no minimum. If that first deposit is refunded, withdrawn or charged back, an unpaid commission is voided and the bonus credits are taken back. Full details are on the Referral page and in the Referral Terms.
How do I get my referral link?
First activate the program from the Refer and earn card on your dashboard: follow the steps to connect your Stripe account for automatic payouts. Once you are subscribed and connected, your unique share link appears there with a running total of referrals and commissions.
Are there taxes on referral income?
Any tax on referral earnings is your responsibility under your own country's laws. ewpire does not withhold taxes or provide tax advice. See the referral programme terms for the full conditions.