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          "payments": "No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Plan prices are public, $49, $99 and $249 a month, with credit packs priced and nothing per MCP call (10). 14-day trial with no card, and the MCP page links to a free account for connecting (20). A person signs up in a browser and approves the OAuth consent. Dynamic client registration lets a client register itself, but not get access without the person (0).",
          "reliability": "Graded as a hosted MCP server. No status page found, and status.payani.ai did not answer (0). No incident history to read (5). No rate limits found on the MCP page, the help centre or the terms (0). No 429, Retry-After or backoff guidance found (0). The terms of 8 October 2026 say there is no uptime guarantee on any plan (0). Nothing calls the MCP server or Ask Payani beta (10).",
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          "transparency": "Closed service with terms that name Payani Media LLC in San Francisco and California courts (15). Terms, privacy policy and subprocessors page agree on US storage, 30 days' retention after cancellation then deletion, brief survival in backups and no training of Payani's own models on customer content. They disagree on providers, since the privacy policy says providers aren't permitted to train general-purpose models while the subprocessors page says fal.ai may use anonymised or aggregated inputs. Full account export isn't available yet (18 of 30). Terms changes get 30 days' notice and price changes 30 days, but functions can be added, changed or removed with no stated notice (5 of 20). Subprocessors named with their data and US locations, dated 17 August 2026, with a notification list on request (18 of 20)."
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            "seen": "2026-10-21"
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            "what": "Ask Payani page",
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            "seen": "2026-10-21"
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            "what": "launch release of 20 October 2026, ACCESS Newswire copy",
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            "seen": "2026-10-21"
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            "seen": "2026-10-21"
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            "seen": "2026-10-21"
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            "what": "privacy policy",
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            "seen": "2026-10-21"
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            "seen": "2026-10-21"
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            "seen": "2026-10-21"
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            "what": "support page",
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            "seen": "2026-10-21"
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            "seen": "2026-10-21"
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            "seen": "2026-10-21"
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            "seen": "2026-10-21"
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            "url": "https://rdap.identitydigital.services/rdap/domain/payani.ai",
            "seen": "2026-10-21"
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          "unchecked: the MCP server's tool definitions, count, schemas and annotations, which need an OAuth login",
          "unchecked: rate limits and error bodies on authenticated calls",
          "unchecked: when the MCP server first went live; no dated page or archive copy of payani.ai/mcp was found",
          "unchecked: voice input. The 20 October release says voice or text, and no public page read shows voice input to Ask Payani",
          "firstReleased is 2026-09-13, the earliest archived copy of payani.ai showing a self-serve trial. Help articles stamped August 2026 suggest earlier use, without a day. Both are earlier than the lead's 20 October date, which is the launch of the conversational execution system on an existing platform",
          "Payani AI does not do the job of LocalGhost or letme. It is a marketing and CRM suite, not local AI or tool routing",
          "The privacy policy and subprocessors page disagree on whether every AI provider is barred from training on inputs (fal.ai is not, per the subprocessors page)"
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      "verdict": "A young marketing and CRM suite whose remote MCP server lets an outside agent read contacts, pipeline, meetings and reporting under OAuth with a single read scope. The voice and text execution announced on 20 October works only inside the app, and no status page, rate limits, API or tool definitions were found publicly.",
      "bestFor": "A small business already running its marketing and CRM in Payani that wants an assistant to read leads, pipeline, meetings and ad reporting.",
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        "Remote MCP server at `https://app.payani.ai/api/mcp` with OAuth, PKCE, dynamic client registration and revocation",
        "The server is read-only by design, with one `read` scope and access limited to the chosen workspace",
        "14-day trial with no card, and plan prices from $49 a month published",
        "Subprocessors page names each provider, its data and its US location, and says plainly which AI provider may train on inputs"
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        "No public API, and the MCP server cannot write, so an agent can't run the campaigns, follow-ups or CRM updates the launch describes",
        "MCP tool definitions sit behind OAuth and no public tool list, schema or changelog was found",
        "No status page, rate limits, SLA, security.txt or security certification found",
        "Domain registered on 20 July 2026, with the platform first seen open on 13 September 2026"
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        "Add `https://app.payani.ai/api/mcp` as a custom connector, as the MCP page shows for Claude, and have the person sign in and pick a workspace; the only scope is `read`.",
        "Don't plan writes through Payani. Hand campaign sends, follow-ups and record edits to the person in the app.",
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      "The ACCESS Newswire release of 20 October 2026 announces a conversational execution system that takes voice or text and directs prospecting, campaigns, CRM updates, content and workflows. The public pages show Ask Payani as a text chat, and voice input was not seen on any page read (ACCESS Newswire copy at https://www.financialcontent.com/article/accwirecq-2026-10-20-payani-ai-launches-ai-powered-marketing-and-sales-execution-tell-the-ai-what-you-want-done)",
      "The platform was open before that release. An archived copy of payani.ai from 13 September 2026 already shows a 14-day trial with no card and the same Ask Payani pages (https://web.archive.org/web/20260913010510/https://www.payani.ai/)",
      "The MCP page says the server reads contacts, companies, pipeline and deals, hot leads, website visitors, traffic and ad performance, meetings, competitor reports and reporting, and that it cannot edit, delete, send or take any action (https://payani.ai/mcp)",
      "OAuth metadata lists PKCE with S256, dynamic client registration, a revocation endpoint and a single `read` scope (https://app.payani.ai/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server)",
      "The release says customers moved more than 100,000 contacts in the first weeks, including a 46,000-contact HubSpot history in an afternoon. These are the vendor's figures (same release)",
      "The terms of 8 October 2026 say there is no uptime guarantee on any plan, forbid using the platform to build a competing product, and say full account export is not available yet (https://payani.ai/legal/terms)",
      "The subprocessors page of 17 August 2026 says fal.ai, used for video and audio, may use anonymised or aggregated data from inputs to develop its models, while the privacy policy says providers are not permitted to train general-purpose models on customer data (https://payani.ai/legal/subprocessors)"
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      {
        "label": "Surface listed",
        "value": "The Payani AI web app and its remote MCP server, read from payani.ai, the OAuth metadata at app.payani.ai and one unauthenticated request to the server on 21 October 2026. No account was made"
      },
      {
        "label": "What the launch adds",
        "value": "The 20 October 2026 release presents Ask Payani as a conversational layer that prepares and runs marketing and sales work from voice or text, for the user's approval. That runs in the app. The MCP server reads data and can't trigger it"
      },
      {
        "label": "MCP server",
        "value": "Streamable HTTP at `https://app.payani.ai/api/mcp`, OAuth, read-only. Reads contacts and companies, pipeline and deals, hot leads, website visitors, traffic and ad performance, meetings, competitor reports and reporting, per the MCP page"
      },
      {
        "label": "Credentials",
        "value": "OAuth authorisation code with PKCE (S256), dynamic client registration, refresh tokens and revocation. One scope, `read`, and the person picks one workspace"
      },
      {
        "label": "Other interfaces",
        "value": "No REST API, API keys, webhooks or SDK found in the site, its sitemap or its llms.txt"
      },
      {
        "label": "Platform",
        "value": "CRM, email campaigns, prospecting, social posting, creative studio (image, video, voiceover), articles, ads, forms, meetings, workflows, analytics and AI search visibility, all on every plan"
      },
      {
        "label": "Category fit",
        "value": "Listed in CRM because the MCP server reads contacts, companies, deals and pipeline. The platform also covers lifecycle marketing, which the MCP server can't drive"
      },
      {
        "label": "Data handling",
        "value": "Stored in the United States on Supabase, AWS and Vercel. Text AI by Anthropic, images by OpenAI, video and audio by fal.ai. Data kept 30 days after cancellation, then deleted"
      }
    ],
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      {
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        "unit": "month",
        "usd": 49,
        "note": "14-day trial with no card"
      },
      {
        "item": "Pro (3 seats, 7,500 AI credits, 25,000 contacts)",
        "unit": "month",
        "usd": 99
      },
      {
        "item": "Business (10 seats, 20,000 AI credits, 100,000 contacts)",
        "unit": "month",
        "usd": 249
      },
      {
        "item": "Extra seat",
        "unit": "seat-month",
        "usd": 20
      },
      {
        "item": "AI credit pack of 2,500",
        "unit": "tx",
        "usd": 35,
        "note": "paid plans only; 7,500 for $95, 20,000 for $240"
      }
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      "terms": "https://payani.ai/legal/terms",
      "privacy": "https://payani.ai/legal/privacy",
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      "changelog": "",
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        "The terms (last updated 8 October 2026) name Payani Media LLC, a California limited liability company doing business as Payani.ai, 600 California Street, Floor 11, San Francisco, CA 94108, with courts in San Francisco County.",
        "Payani AI is part of Payani Group, founded by Ali Payani, which also runs the agencies Payani Media, Prime Aesthetic Media and Silver Hammer Media.",
        "payani.ai/.well-known/security.txt returns the site's HTML page, not a security.txt. No security page or disclosure address was found.",
        "No status page was found; status.payani.ai did not answer. No changelog was found.",
        "RDAP for payani.ai gives a registration date of 2026-07-20."
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          "points": 10,
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          "state": "ok"
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          "check": "Privacy policy",
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          "points": 10,
          "max": 10,
          "state": "ok"
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          "check": "Status page",
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          "max": 10,
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          "check": "Changelog",
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          "points": 0,
          "max": 10,
          "state": "no"
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