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Is this a consulting service? Or do you offer software? If you don’t mind me asking, what’s the average project size using a prediction market.

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We have a prediction market platform, but we also end up consulting most of the time as part of the implementation. As you might imagine, prediction markets can be quite disruptive. They tend to make information radically more transparent and we learned the hard way that in order to not just churn through a bunch of companies, we needed to help companies deal with 1) what key questions to ask, and 2) what are they going to do with the new signals they have? How will they incorporate them in to their decision making processes and how will they acknowledge that the "crowd" has been heard?

The average project size we work with tends to be in the low hundreds of participants, with the biggest one being in the mid-thousands.

Thanks, this is helpful. I read through your site and have a hard time knowing what prices would be for an install or an engagement. I know it’s not clear to have a price sheet for consulting, but is there a way for a potential client to learn about high level prices? Or they have to just enter the sales cycle.

I want to to figure out if this would be a fit for one of my projects, but I don’t want to get a demo, talk to people, etc just to find out it’s an incompatible price.

I understand - I usually don't like to have to talk to people either. Since most of our projects are with large companies, we haven't shared pricing, as each one tends to be pretty different. But we've also worked with smaller teams who just want access to the software, and that's fine too. We start at 399/month for those types of projects and that's for unlimited everything for up to 100 people. You might consider playing with TinyCast which is our free, single question prediction market and see if you like it and people participate. If you/they do, that would be a good indication they'd likely do a full blown prediction market. https://tinycast.cultivatelabs.com

GP has http://cultivatelabs.com in their bio, they're working directly in this space. Very interesting stuff. (And, looking at previous comments they're hiring)

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