Last updated: 2026-10-12
Version: v1.7.0
Audience: Free users who want Team tier (governance, audit, seats)

The MIT core is free forever — 12-50x token reduction, synapse learning, MCP server, 10 languages. You do NOT upgrade for more savings.

You upgrade for:

• Governance — control what AI agents can publish/shared memory
• Audit log — SHA-256 hash-chained, append-only, exportable
• Seat management — add/remove engineers, soft-delete, idempotent
• Self-hosted deployment — air-gapped, docker-compose, data persists

Price: $29/user/mo, annual contract, 5-50 seats.

neuralmind team license status

Output should show: tier: free, seats: 1, expires: never.

If you see tier: team already — you're done.

neuralmind onboarding

Walks through:

1. License activation (or keep free tier)
2. Governance defaults (scope, weight threshold)
3. Admin email setup
4. Team seat audit
5. Verification

For defaults-only: neuralmind onboarding --quick

Purchase a Team license key (.json file), then:

neuralmind team license activate <path-to-license.json>

The license is Ed25519-signed and checked locally, with no licensing server to contact, so it works offline or air-gapped for its whole term. After it expires, a 30-day grace period keeps Team features working while you renew.

neuralmind team license status

Output should now show: tier: team, seats: N, expires: <date>.

neuralmind team seats add <[email protected]>
neuralmind team seats add <[email protected]>

Seats are idempotent — adding an existing seat errors softly.

There's no downgrade guard. If you stop paying:

1. License expires at end of annual term
2. For 30 days after the expiry date, neuralmind team license status shows OFFLINE_OK and the governance, seats and audit commands keep working (the license agreement, §4.2). This doesn't depend on when NeuralMind last ran (v4.15.1+; earlier versions could end it sooner)
3. From day 31 it shows EXPIRED, and those commands stop until you activate a renewed license with neuralmind team license activate
4. To drop to the free tier instead, run neuralmind onboarding: once the license has expired, its first step offers to replace it with a free license

No data loss. The MIT core doesn't check license status.

After 10 wakeup/query calls, the CLI prints:

NeuralMind Team: $29/user/mo — shared memory, governance, seat management.
See neuralmind.uk/pricing or run `neuralmind onboarding`.

This fires exactly once. To re-trigger: neuralmind onboarding directly.

You are paying for compliance, not compression.

Wiki v1.0. Next review: after Enterprise tier ships.