AI Free Credits & Deals

CEO executive report

Money ops 91 offers ~$2M catalogued lov36492

Work 29.05.26 · Snapshot on page 29.05.26 · Artifact 16.07.26
Source thread: niche-ai-tool-directory-curation (same session as Atlas v2)

Standalone Free Credits & Deals product page: five parallel subagents researched signup credits, no-card free tiers, startup programs, and launch promos. Deduped 142 raw finds into 91 live offers (86/91 no credit card). Shipped filterable HTML (root alpha-deals.html, hosted under products).

What happened

Mapped free tiers, one-time signup credits, apply-only startup programs ($5k-$350k class), launch promos
Company-level dedupe (union-style) from 142 raw to 91 offers
Built interactive deals HTML aligned with Atlas product UX (filter/sort)
Parallel offer-type scouts (5) instead of one mega-prompt
Later: automated refresh path via ai-deals-scraper (425+ raw inventory)

Assets you can open

How this makes or saves money

Burn less cash: claim verified cloud/startup credits before paid spend (big-cloud apply tiers can hit $100k-$350k class when eligible)
Prefer recurring free tiers (no card) over short one-time $ that expire unused
One-shot accounts: new-account status is inventory; sequence long windows first; keep a claim log
Productize: dated verified deals page + scraper = living radar (newsletter, API, affiliate, sponsorship)

Learnings to reuse (playbook)

Aggregators find candidates; only the vendor page confirms
Tag verification; marketing headlines are not claimable (waitlists, "$10k" ads)
Five archetypes: signup credit, free tier, matched deposit, apply program, event/hackathon bundle
Hunt channels: /pricing /free /promo /startups, free-for.dev, VC perk portals, Student Pack, HN/Reddit
Check: expiry, CC required, stacking, eligibility, training-data terms
Freshness is the moat: snapshot date on every table (here 29.05.26)

Risks for the CEO

Stale promos: programs expire or 404; re-verify before finance plans depend on them
Scraped 425 is not 425 claimable; verification is still the bottleneck
Startup tiers often need funding stage / company age; wrong apply burns the slot