Founders: 99 lifetime seats, and why we'll never sell the 100th

July 6, 2026 · FACEIT Scout

Today, alongside Season 5 and the return of Cache, we're opening something we'll only ever do once: Founders — exactly 99 lifetime seats at $99, one time. When the wall fills, the tier closes for good.

This post covers what's in it, and — because "limited lifetime deal" is one of the most abused phrases on the internet — why our cap is enforced in code rather than promised in marketing copy.

What a Founder gets

PerkWhat it means
Lifetime ProUnlimited scans, AI opponent briefs, veto predictions, full scan history and saved rosters. Forever. You're never billed again.
5 ⚡ tokens / month, foreverEvery month, five Enemy-Scout tokens land in your account. Each one buys a full team scout built from your opponents' actual demos — plant sites, opening duels, buy habits — with the AI anti-strat included.
Coach at half priceWant unlimited Enemy Scout instead of tokens? Coach costs Founders $5/month instead of $10 — for life.
Your number, in goldFounder seats are numbered #1–#99. Your gold ★ badge and number render on your player card in every lobby you're scanned in — by anyone, on the site and the extension.
First accessFounders see features while they're still in beta — starting today with the prediction-accuracy dashboard — plus a private Founder lounge on Discord with a direct line to the developer.

The live counter and the wall of claimed seats are public: faceitscout.com/founders.

Why only 99?

Because uncapped lifetime deals are a slow-motion collapse, and everyone who's bought one knows it. Every uncapped lifetime sale adds a permanent service cost with zero recurring revenue attached. The usual endings: the product shuts down, the "lifetime" plan gets quietly redefined, or the buyers get throttled until they leave. We'd rather not build the incentive to betray our earliest supporters directly into our pricing.

Ninety-nine seats is the number a solo-run project can honor forever — real bandwidth for demo parsing, real AI costs for anti-strats, all of it sustainable even if every seat sells and every Founder uses everything, every month. That's the only version of "lifetime" that actually means lifetime.

And the cap isn't a marketing promise — it's a database constraint. Seat numbers are assigned atomically with a hard limit of 99; if two purchases ever race past the cap, the losing payment is refunded automatically before we ever touch it. The 100th seat isn't for sale because the code won't sell it.

Why $99 is a fair trade — both ways

Pro normally runs $29/year, so the math is simple: a Founder seat pays for itself in about three and a half years, and everything after that is free — plus the monthly tokens, which cover what would otherwise be paid Enemy-Scout usage, month after month, indefinitely. If you plan to be on FACEIT next year, it's the best deal we will ever offer. On our side, 99 believers funding the project early buys the thing a solo project needs most: runway that doesn't depend on a growth curve.

We've tried to earn that trade the same way we market the scanner itself — with a public, graded ledger of our predictions instead of adjectives. Across 810 resolved matches, lobbies that played the map we recommended won 61% of the time; everyone else won 48%. That's the product Founders are backing.

The honest fine print

99 seats. One wall. Numbered in gold.

See the Founders wall →

Free isn't going anywhere, either: 3 scans a day, the Chrome extension, and the Rewards program — where you can earn Pro days and ⚡ tokens without paying a cent — all stay exactly as they are. Founders is for the people who want to back the project while it's small enough that backing it means something.

See you on the wall. ⚡