What counts as an intelligence op
Intelligence is the family of dashboard surfaces that read and reason about your catalog as a whole — the taxonomy, gap analysis, the 2D map, and product placement. Each time one of those does real work, it costs one intelligence op.
Billable actions
- Gap analysis — every load of the Gaps page.
- Map — every load of the Map page.
- Product placement — every submit on the Placement form.
- Catalog taxonomy refinement — each completed revision pass. Includes both manual "Refine now" clicks and automatic passes triggered by catalog drift. The automatic cadence is throttled so a stable catalog doesn't burn ops in the background.
Free actions
- Loading the Intelligence landing page, including its summary tiles (item count, recent query count).
- Loading the Catalog taxonomy page (reads the already-built anchor set).
- Queueing a manual refine when the merchant has no items yet, or not enough items to derive a taxonomy — these return early and don't charge.
Why intelligence overage is opt-in
Because intelligence ops fire from normal dashboard navigation — opening the Map, checking Gaps, running a Placement — silent overage would be a bad surprise. So intelligence overage is off by default on every tier. When you're at your commit, intelligence surfaces return a friendly pause message with a link to flip overage on. Search and ingest don't have this gate: they're triggered by your shoppers and your integrations, not by you browsing.
Reading meters
The billing page shows intelligence ops the same way it shows search and ingest: used versus included, plus the weighted total. Inside your commit the ops are included in the base fee. Past it, each op bills at your tier's unit rate — assuming overage is on.