Licensing

CRAFT uses a seat-based licensing model. Seats determine which operations you can perform. Tiers determine which collaboration features are available. There are no credits, tokens, or consumption-based charges.

Seat Types

Seats are additive — each higher seat includes all capabilities of the seats below it.

Runner: Execute published automations locally in your CAD host. Import and run shared artifacts from the registry.
Creator: Everything in Runner, plus: author and edit automations and components. Export artifacts locally. Publish to the shared registry on Team and Enterprise tiers.
Approver / Maintainer: Everything in Creator, plus: approve artifact promotion, manage the shared library, and oversee deprecation and lifecycle. Available on Team and Enterprise tiers only.

Tiers

Individual: Runner and Creator seats. Single-machine activation. Personal use. Publish to shared registry is not available.
Team: All seat types including Approver/Maintainer. Publish to shared registry. Team library management.
Enterprise: All Team capabilities, plus dedicated support, custom activation limits, and advanced governance.

Publishing requires Team or Enterprise. To publish an automation to the shared registry, you need a Creator seat (or higher) on a Team or Enterprise tier. Individual-tier Creators can author and export automations locally but cannot publish to the registry.

Machine-Bound Activation

Each seat activates on a specific machine through machine-bound activation. A license cannot be transferred to a different machine without re-issue. Activation requires a one-time network connection; after activation, CRAFT works offline between periodic token refreshes.

If the token expires without refresh, the Preview/Validate Gate hard-blocks all seat-required operations. No override is available — connect to the network and refresh to restore access. See Activation for setup details.

Validate Is Always Available

The validate operation does not require a paid seat. Any authenticated user can validate an automation at any time. Validate runs the full Preview/Validate Gate inspection — showing the execution plan, dependencies, and egress profile — but never executes the automation.

This means you can review and inspect automations even if your seat has expired or you do not have a paid entitlement. The Gate may display a warning for expired tokens, but validate itself is not blocked.

Cancellation

What happens when you cancel depends on your tier:

Individual

Authoring rights stop immediately on cancellation. Automations you created remain on your local machine and can be executed locally, but you cannot create new automations or publish.

Team and Enterprise

On cancellation, a 30-day export-only grace window begins. During this window:

You can export your artifacts and validate existing automations
Execution, authoring, and registry publishing are revoked
After the grace period ends, registry access is fully revoked
Local files on your machine are unaffected regardless of cancellation status

No Consumption Metering

CRAFT does not meter automation executions, API calls, or any other usage metric. Your seat grants access to the operations defined for that seat type. There are no per-run charges, credit systems, or token-based currencies.

For seat comparison and tier details, see the Pricing page.

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