Plans and limits
Two billing lines, not one
The platform has two halves, and they are billed separately. Seeing that from the start avoids the most common surprise on the first invoice.
- Y Managers (the team dashboard)
- billed per person holding a Y Managers seat, per month. Every seat is billed — the whole organization gets 7 days with no charge to try it out, and after that every seat counts. The rates are on the Pricing page.
- Orion (the AI manager)
- billed per person seat. The channel plans are MEI, Telegram, WhatsApp, WhatsApp Voice and WhatsApp Voice Max.
Each person has one plan only. Either a Y Managers seat or an Orion channel seat — never both at once. Channel plans already include the team dashboard (the one exception is MEI, built for working solo), so someone on a channel does not pay a Y Managers seat on top. Both lines can appear on the same invoice, because within one organization different people can be on different plans.
Beyond those, two items take up the same kind of seat and the same price as the WhatsApp plan, in your organization's currency: each active, billable AI worker, and each extra dedicated WhatsApp number. On the Billing page they appear added to the people, not hidden in another account — the total you read there is the total the card sees.
What changes from one plan to the next
| Telegram | WhatsApp Voice | WhatsApp Voice Max | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agent on Telegram | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Agent on WhatsApp | — | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| "Ask Orion" chat in the dashboard | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Understands audio and files you send in the chat | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Real-time voice conversation (mobile app) | — | — | ✅ | ✅ |
| Audio to Notes (record a meeting, dictate) | — | — | ✅ | ✅ |
Every plan with an agent includes the same set of capabilities: calendar, email and documents from Google and Microsoft 365, reading of forwarded emails, CRM and relationship radar, automatic routines, management of the team's deliverables, memory and precedents, internet search, and the mobile app. What changes between the plans is the channel and the size of the caps — Telegram has the smallest, Voice Max has the largest. The exact numbers are on the Pricing page.
There is also a Custom plan, negotiated case by case, for anyone bringing a group of users on at once: more integrations, the option to bring your own AI key (BYOK), and the choice of which features and limits are included. It does not automatically inherit the caps of the plan above it — each item is agreed on its own.
Bring your own AI key (BYOK)
Two plans let the organization use its own key from an AI provider instead of ours: Orion BYOK, free, with the agent on Telegram (the bot belongs to the person) and text only; and Orion BYOK Pro, per seat, which adds WhatsApp, transcribed voice messages and Audio Notes — "your AI key, our services". Neither includes real-time voice conversation in the app.
The key belongs to the organization; the plan belongs to each person. Whoever manages subscriptions registers the key once, on the Billing page, choosing provider and model. It is tested with a real call before being stored — if the provider rejects it, nothing is saved and the screen says why. It is kept encrypted and never shown in full again: the screen shows only the last four characters, when it was validated and by whom.
No key, no BYOK plan. The plan selector shows the BYOK plans disabled until the key exists — and the same applies to bulk changes. In the other direction, the key cannot be removed while anyone on a BYOK plan depends on it: replace the key, or change their plans first.
What runs on your key, and what stays on us. On the organization's key run the conversations of everyone on a BYOK plan and all of the organization's management work — assessments, workers, prospecting, summaries. That applies from the moment of registration, and the screen says so. On BYOK Pro these stay on us, included in the plan: audio transcription, PDF and image reading, WhatsApp, search and browsing. On the free BYOK plan none of that is available — it is Telegram only, with no transcription and no voice. People on other plans continue as before. If someone on a BYOK plan is left without a key — because it was removed or the provider rejected it — their Orion stops and says what happened; it never falls back to our key on its own.
The 7-day trial
The trial is free for 7 days and does not ask for a credit card.
The trial is not a plan of its own: you try the plan of the door you came in through. The 7-day clock only says you are not paying yet; what you experience are the channels and caps of the plan matching your entry point — connect WhatsApp and you try Orion WhatsApp; start with voice in the app and you try Orion WhatsApp Voice; link Telegram and you try Orion Telegram; come in through Orion's official WhatsApp and say you are a Brazilian MEI and you try Orion MEI; come in through it without identifying as MEI and you try Orion WhatsApp (say later that you are a MEI and the trial moves to Orion MEI). This is deliberate: what you experience during the 7 days is what you start paying for on the eighth, with no surprise in either direction.
The clock starts on the first channel you connect — WhatsApp authorized, Telegram linked, or your first voice session in the app. It does not have to be WhatsApp: if you start with Telegram or with voice, your trial is already running.
Two honest quirks of the trial period:
The trial's transcription budget covers the 7 days as a whole, not the calendar month. If you start on the 28th, you do not get one budget in August and another in September.
If you subscribe in the middle of the trial, the rules of the plan you bought apply immediately — not the trial's. That cuts both ways, on purpose: the plan is the one you chose, even on the days when the trial would have given you more.
The 7 free days of Y Managers
Independently of the Orion trial, every organization gets a 7-day free period on Y Managers, for the whole organization.
That clock starts the day the organization's first signed delivery plan moves to In progress, or 30 days after the organization was created — whichever comes first. A plan with a backdated date does not consume the period in advance.
The free period gives one thing, and only that: the Y Managers seats for the whole team, with no charge, for the 7 days. Until August 14, 2026 it also included courtesy AI workers and a WhatsApp channel unlocked on the merit of usage — both were withdrawn. An AI worker and an Orion channel are a normal subscription from day one, and that is how it stands on the Pricing page.
The period belongs to the organization, not to each person. It covers everyone on the team at once and ends for everyone on the same day — someone joining midway gets what is left, they don't restart the count.
Pilot. Beyond the free period, an organization can be on a pilot: a time-boxed arrangement agreed case by case with Orion Workers. While the pilot runs, members' plans are set by Orion Workers — not even the organization's Admin changes them — and that is deliberate: the pilot's scope is what was agreed.
When the 7 days end, the outcome depends on whether the organization has an active subscription:
- With a subscription
- the Y Managers seats above the free floor start going onto the invoice.
- Without a subscription
- nothing locks up. The dashboard stays usable, your data and history stay intact, and you get a notice — over WhatsApp if a channel is connected, otherwise by email — saying the period is over and what it takes to keep the full team. It is a soft ending, not a block.
Seats: who gets billed
On the Billing page, every member of the organization appears with a plan selector. The selector lists the Orion channel plans and the Y Managers seat, because each person sits in one of them — never in both. Choosing Remove seat leaves the person with no plan at all: no Orion and no Y Managers seat.
Seats granted by the platform (courtesy, or grants from the platform owner) appear marked as granted: they are not billed and cannot be edited there.
One rule that tends to go unnoticed: the dashboard's "Ask Orion" chat is open to anyone whose organization has an active subscription — even if that person's seat is free. "Free seat" does not mean "no chat"; it means "no channel of your own".
Monthly or yearly, and in which currency
The yearly plan costs ten times the monthly — two months free. You choose the billing interval on the Billing page itself, before going to checkout.
The currency comes from the country the company bills from: Brazil is billed in Reais, all other countries are billed in US Dollars. These are two distinct billing accounts, and an organization does not move from one to the other after the first charge. So, while the country is not set, the Billing page shows no price at all — it asks first. That is one more question in your way, and it is deliberate: showing a price in the wrong currency is getting the customer's money wrong before you have even charged it.
The Billing page
Any Admin of the organization can see the page. Only a billing manager changes the plan, seats, payment method or cancellation. The first manager is the organization's contact, set automatically; the page recommends designating more than one, and it is worth following that advice — with a single manager, that person leaving locks billing for the entire organization.
You can also ask Orion directly: "what are the plans?".
In some organizations, subscribing from the screen itself is not enabled. When that is the case, the page says so instead of letting you try.
A partner's referral code
Some customers arrive through an Orion partner — a consultancy or a professional who introduces the platform and helps get it on its feet. If that was your case, the partner gives you a referral code: a short code with a hyphen, shaped like AC-CONSULTORIA.
The code is entered once, at the moment you subscribe. There are two places, and only those two:
Paying by Pix, in the conversation with Orion. Before generating the charge, he asks once whether someone referred Orion to you. Answer with the code, or say no — either way the subscription goes through just the same.
Paying by card, in the dashboard. The subscribe screen, inside the Billing page, has an optional Referral code field, checked before you move on to checkout.
Outside those two moments nobody asks for the code: not when you connect a channel, not at sign-up, not in the middle of any conversation. And it does not change afterwards — each organization has one partner, the one from the day it subscribed, and that is not swapped later. If the code is not recognized, the screen (or Orion himself, in the conversation) says so and the subscription goes through anyway: nobody is left unable to subscribe over a code that did not match.
The code changes two things for you — and neither of them is price.
The first 7 days are on Orion. The subscription starts right away, with immediate access, and the first charge lands on the 8th day. Cancel before that and there is no charge at all. This is not the free trial described above: the trial is for those who have not subscribed yet; these 7 days run after you subscribe, with a code.
The partner walks you through the setup — connecting the channels, building the teams, getting the first delivery plan standing.
The price is exactly the same, with or without a code. The code gives no discount and adds nothing: the table on the Pricing page is the same for everyone. Whatever Orion agrees with the partner is between Orion and the partner, and it never shows up on your invoice.
Reactivation does not accept a code. Coming back after a cancellation or a lapse is a re-subscription, not a first subscription: at that point the code is neither asked for nor accepted. The referral code applies the first time the organization pays, and only then.
The five meters — and what happens when you hit one
| Meter | What it consumes | Window |
|---|---|---|
| AI capacity (personal) | your conversation with Orion over the channel — text, file reads, searches and automatic routines | day and month |
| Real-time voice | the spoken conversation in the mobile app | day and month |
| Audio transcription | the audio you send in the chat and the Audio to Notes recordings | day and month |
| Organization management | the AI manager's work for the team — drafting an assessment, composing a renewal, proposing a breakdown — and the "Ask Orion" chat in the dashboard | day and month |
| Each AI worker | the worker's own daily run | day and month |
The five are independent. Spending your spoken conversation does not consume your transcription budget, and vice versa — they are separate meters on purpose, because they cost different things.
Two of them were born on August 13–14, 2026, and they change who pays the bill. The organization management one does not come out of anyone's conversation: it belongs to the organization, and every paid seat — dashboard or Orion channel — adds a share to it (the organization has a base, and each seat contributes its part). It is also what backs the dashboard's "Ask Orion" chat: if the organization's allowance runs out, the chat does not go silent — it answers right there that it has reached the organization's AI limit, that nothing you asked for was lost, that it comes back on renewal and that the administrator can raise it — and the Admins get a notice (at most one a day). Each AI worker has an account of its own, separate from all the others: it is what lets you compare how much each worker consumed, and a worker that runs out of the day's allowance turns the delegation down saying its own name and the reason, picks up again when the day turns over, and the Admins are notified.
When you hit the daily capacity cap, Orion says in the conversation that it is going to take a break and will be back the next day. When you hit the monthly one, it stops until the month turns over or until you change plans. In both cases it says that it stopped — it does not go silent without explanation.
On voice, each call reserves five minutes up front and settles the account when it ends. If the session is abandoned without being closed, it is closed automatically a little later and whatever was not used goes back to your balance (a one-minute minimum stays charged).
An honest note about the caps: they exist to stop abuse, not to meter your usage. The heaviest profile measured across our own fleet sits below the monthly cap of the WhatsApp plans — it gets close to it, but does not cross it. If your usage runs far above that, the path is a bigger plan or a custom plan, and it is better to know that up front.
When the trial ends, or you cancel
Orion warns you before the trial ends.
Without subscribing, the account lands in the No subscription state. The team dashboard keeps working; the agent stops. (There is no longer a "free plan" at this point: someone who did not subscribe is not on a plan, they have no subscription — and the screen says exactly that.)
The channels do not drop at the same instant. The WhatsApp connection is undone after a two-day grace period, and the same grace period applies when a paid subscription is canceled.
"The agent stops" is literal: work requests — reminders, summaries, routines, CRM lookups — are no longer carried out, and anyone who writes gets a short reply saying the plan ended and where the data is.
One conversation stays open: coming back. Talking about price, plans, renewal or payment goes through normally, and you can resubscribe right there, without opening the dashboard. If you'd rather use a set phrase, reply "I want to continue".
Once the two-day grace period has passed, your dedicated number is switched off — so the conversation happens through the Orion support number instead of yours.
Nothing is lost in this process. Your data, your history, your automations and your number stay where they were. When you resubscribe, you reconnect the channel and pick up where you left off.
Leaving and deleting data
Three different actions — do not confuse them
- Cancel the subscription
- stops the billing. Your organization, your data and your history remain.
- Remove a person
- takes away their access. Their work history stays with the organization.
- Delete the agent and the data
- erases. It is irreversible, and there is no undo button.
One practical consequence of this: deleting your data does not cancel the organization's subscription. If you are leaving for good, cancel in Billing first, then delete.
Canceling the subscription
In Billing → Manage subscription, you go to the payment provider's secure portal, where you update the card, change plans or cancel. Only a billing manager has that button.
After cancellation, the same two-day grace period described in Plans and limits applies: the channel is only undone after it, and the data stays.
If you subscribed through Pix Automático, you cancel it at your bank. The card provider's portal does not touch Pix. Open your bank app, find Pix Automático (or "authorized debits") and cancel Orion's authorization — you can do it until 11:59 p.m. the day before the next charge. You can also ask us in the conversation and we cancel it on our side. The month you already paid runs to its end; nothing is charged after that.
⚠️ Cancelling at the bank does not notify us right away. Pix does not send that notice to whoever receives the money: we notice when the next charge does not arrive. If you want it confirmed, tell us in the conversation that you cancelled — then it is on record and nobody is left guessing.
A one-off payment is not a subscription. When you come back by paying one month through a Pix link, that charges once — there is nothing to cancel, and nothing repeats next month.
Removing a person from the organization
In Users (visible to Admin and HR; the action belongs to Admin), the remove button performs a reversible removal. The person loses access, leaves the teams and disappears from the people screens — but their work plans, cycles and assessments stay standing, because they are records of the organization, not of the person. Restoring the person automatically reconnects all of that history, since their identity is the same.
Two protections you will run into: you cannot remove yourself, and you cannot remove the last Admin — promote someone else to Admin first.
Permanent deletion of a person is only offered after you remove them, and only when they have no work-plan history. If they do, the platform refuses and explains why: erasing the person would leave the organization's records orphaned. In that case, the right thing is to keep them as removed.
A user that represents an AI worker does not leave through here. To shut it down, use Orion → AI Team Governance and dismiss the worker: the identity goes with it and the billing stops immediately. Removing the synthetic user from the people screen would leave the worker orphaned — billed, with a plan, and invisible — and that is why the platform blocks that path.
Deleting your agent and your data
The path is Orion → Delete. Confirmation is by typing: you write DELETE to unlock the button.
Before you confirm, the screen shows a preview: approximately how many records, across how many tables, will be deleted — and a block called What will NOT be deleted. You read that before deciding, not after.
What goes:
- the agent and its configuration (personality, public role, settings);
- the WhatsApp and Telegram connections (the number is released);
- the forwarded emails, the memory pages and the knowledge docs;
- your CRM — contacts, companies and activity history;
- the scheduled routines and everything else tied to the agent;
- the conversation state, the stored files, attachments and recordings, and the memory indexes.
The list of what is deleted is derived from the live structure of the database on every run, not from a fixed list. But it recognizes tables by three column names, and a table that organizes its rows any other way is not found — so this is not the guarantee the phrase suggests, and we would rather say so than let you discover it later. That is why the deletion report now names the tables the sweep did not visit, and a deletion that has any of them is not declared complete. The sweep of the memory indexes is declared as best-effort in the report — when they cannot be walked, the report says exactly that, instead of counting it as zero.
What is not deleted — and why
Here the deletion splits into two paths, and what decides is whether there is an employer on the other side.
Organization with more than one person. We erase the Orion side. The work records in Y Managers — plans, deliverables, cycles, assessments and the audit trail — belong to the company, which is the controller of that data, and the law often requires it to keep them. They remain, and the deletion report explicitly says what was retained. To request the deletion of those records, the request goes to the company, not to us.
Organization of one person only. You are the company. There is no third party to protect, and refusing to erase someone's own records because "the company owns them" would be indefensible. Both sides are erased.
The head count is done at the moment of the request, never stored — organizations gain and lose people. AI workers and system users do not count as people: without that, a one-person organization with two workers would look like three and would take the wrong path.
And when the count is ambiguous or fails, the deletion deliberately takes the narrow path (Orion only) and reports the uncertainty. The two directions of error are not symmetric: erasing an employer's records is irreversible and hits people who asked for nothing; failing to erase is a problem you can fix the next day.
The honesty rule
If any part of the deletion fails, the platform does not say it deleted. It says the deletion did not complete, states that nothing is being claimed as erased, and passes the detail to the team to finish.
This is a design decision, not a detail: a false confirmation is worse than an incomplete deletion, because it takes away any chance you had of finding out.
Once the deletion is complete, the screen tells you that you can sign out. To use Orion again, it would be the setup of a fresh agent, from scratch.
Where to ask for help
Two doors, and it is worth knowing the difference before knocking on one of them.
By email: [email protected]. It is the company's address — the same one stated in the Terms of Use and in the Privacy Policy. Use it for billing, contracts, data-deletion requests, anything that needs to be on record in writing, and for whatever is not urgent.
On WhatsApp: +1 343 202 7840. It is the website's support line. What answers there is Orion itself, in its public role — not a person on shift. It knows the product, answers immediately and at any hour, and escalates to people when the matter calls for it. Saying so is more honest than letting you find out on your own: if you would rather talk to a human from the first message, write that in the conversation, or send an email.
Two things that often save you the question:
Ask Orion itself first. It reads this whole manual — the same nine chapters, in all three languages — and answers by consulting the right page instead of improvising. "How does the free period work?", "what can the Audit role see?", "why isn't my worker working?" are questions it answers better than a search.
The manual opens at the screen you are on. At the foot of the sidebar, the Manual button does not take you to the index: it takes you to the chapter matching the screen you have open.
Glossary
The work
- Deliverable
- the tangible, measurable result of the work — "Monthly report published", "Launch campaign live". It belongs to a team, which answers for it. It is the "what".
- Recurring deliverable
- a deliverable with Recurring status — a continuing goal, with no final deadline (monthly sales, NPS, uptime). You record the result of each period and it never "finishes" at 100%.
- Task
- the "how". It belongs to a deliverable, and it is task progress that computes the deliverable's progress. Different from your personal to-do list, which belongs to no deliverable.
- Target and target type
- the amount to be produced and the unit it is measured in — percentage, unit or money value (plus any types your organization already uses). There is no "yes/no" target type.
- Recipient
- who benefits from the deliverable — internal, clients/users, beneficiaries, community, suppliers, government, partners, investors.
- Requester
- the team that formally asked for the deliverable.
- Grouping
- the tree of groups the organization uses to classify its deliverables (by area, by business line, by whatever makes sense). It has its own page in the sidebar.
- Planned baseline
- the planned dates, the target type and the deliverable's target. Editable until the planned start date arrives; from then on they are locked, and changes move into the "Updated" fields.
The plans
- Team deliverables plan
- the deliverables a team will work on during a period. It is signed by the manager, and the signature is the moment the scope gets reviewed.
- Planned
- a deliverables plan already signed whose period has not started yet. Not to be confused with Draft — a draft has not been reviewed by anyone.
- Source plan
- the signed deliverables plan (and In progress or Planned) a deliverable has to come from in order to enter a work plan. For an AI worker this rule blocks; for a person, it only records a warning.
- Work plan
- a worker's individual commitment — which deliverables they work on and how their time is split across them, as a percentage of effort.
- Participant and supervisor
- the two signature lines of a work plan. Both signatures advance the plan and automatically create the assessment cycles.
- Agreed
- the work-plan stage after both signatures, before the period starts.
- Adjustment requested
- a stage of its own, created when someone asks for an adjustment to a plan that is not yet agreed. Both signatures are cleared and both parties sign again. Not the same as going back to Draft.
- Combinado
- the working agreement in the form of a structured questionnaire, which comes down from the organization to the team and from the team to the person. When a work plan is signed, the Combinado in effect is frozen inside the plan — what counts is the version from the day of the signature.
Cycles and assessment
- Cycle
- the assessment window created by the signing of the work plan. Its duration comes from the feedback frequency chosen in the plan.
- Cycle report
- what the participant writes about what was done, deliverable by deliverable. It can be submitted from the last day of the cycle onward, and even after the deadline, as long as the manager has not assessed it.
- Feedback given
- the state of the cycle after the supervisor has assessed it. It is still mutable: the window is running to request a review or for the manager to adjust.
- Review requested
- the participant's request to reassess a low feedback, within the window.
- Consolidated
- the final, immutable state of the cycle. After that the rating no longer changes, and a work plan is only finalized when all of its cycles are consolidated.
- Assessment frequency
- how often a participant's work is assessed. It is what determines the length of the cycles.
- Precedent
- the recorded "why" of a decision — the reason, the lesson, the risk taken. It is kept and reused later, both by you and by Orion. It is what makes the system decide more and more the way your house decides.
People, roles and AI
- Org role
- Admin, HR, Audit or User. It applies to the whole organization and is checked on every request.
- Team role
- manager, assistant, member or observer. It applies to one team at a time, and a person has a single role per team.
- Observer
- a read-only team role, meant for a mentor or an outside consultant. Sees the team's work plans, never leads, does not see cost, and has no write button at all.
- Work group
- the category of a WhatsApp or Telegram group, chosen on the group's row in Orion → Connection (WhatsApp) or in Orion → Telegram. There are three, and every group has one: Regular — the default, where nothing said there enters the work record and Orion answers using public knowledge only; 🏢 Internal work — content captured, and there Orion may use the organization's internal knowledge to answer; and 🤝 External work — content captured, including what people from outside write, but Orion stays on public knowledge and only files a document into the library when you ask; a request from another participant is declined. The category is independent of the authorization to take part, and it exists only on the screen — neither you nor Orion declares a group over chat. See the security and privacy chapter.
- Home team
- a person's main team, recorded on their profile.
- Worker
- the unit that carries a work plan. It can be a person or an AI worker — the work plan is the same object in both cases.
- AI worker
- an AI-powered worker hired by the organization. It takes a seat, has a work plan, submits its own cycle report, and is governed by an autonomy matrix.
- Escalation
- an action the AI worker prepared but cannot run on its own under the organization's autonomy policy. It waits for your decision, which you give in the conversation ("approve 1") or on the Orion → AI Team Governance page.
- the permission, given by a manager and always optional, for Orion to conclude an act that would be the manager's — applying a cycle's assessment, signing an AI worker's work plan, or creating deliverables and tasks inside an already signed deliverables plan. It is per team, it arrives switched off, it gives notice the day before, it gives a receipt afterwards, and it goes away with one sentence ("stop doing this for me"). What is concluded that way is signed as "by Orion under so-and-so's pre-authorization" — never in the manager's name. See the work plans and cycles chapter.
Billing
- Seat
- Orion's billing unit. Each person on a paid plan takes one; each billable AI worker and each extra WhatsApp number takes one too, at the WhatsApp plan price.
- Free-seat floor
- the number of human members your organization has for free on Y Managers. It is subtractive — it comes out of the count before the calculation — and it is larger for non-profits and government bodies.
- Billing manager
- who can change the plan, seats, payment method and cancellation. Every Admin sees the Billing page; only the billing manager changes it.
- No subscription
- the terminal state of an account that never subscribed (or canceled). The team dashboard continues; the agent stops.
- Referral code
- an Orion partner's code, entered once, at the moment you subscribe — either in the conversation's Pix flow or in the field on the subscribe screen. It does not change afterwards, does not alter the price, and is not accepted on a reactivation. Not to be confused with an invitation to join an organization, which is always by email and has no code.
