You do the work. You build the pipeline, model the data, get the dashboard exactly right. Then you hand it to your client — and the platform asks them to buy a license before they're allowed to look at it.
That's the deal with most enterprise data tools today. Databricks, Power BI, and the rest of the lakehouse-and-BI stack are built for internal teams, not for the people you're actually serving. Every stakeholder who wants to ask a question needs a seat, a login, a line item on their own budget — for something you already paid to build.
If you run a consultancy, an agency, or any kind of services business, this shows up constantly. You finish an engagement. The client loves it. Then the follow-up question is never "can we ask it something new" — it's "do we have to buy something to do that."
The value you built doesn't change. The friction to actually use it does — and it lands on the person least equipped to deal with it: your client, who just wanted an answer.
Some of that friction is unavoidable — infrastructure costs money. But a lot of it isn't about cost at all. It's about the platform wanting a direct billing relationship with everyone who ever touches the data, whether or not that makes sense for how the work actually happened.
VerbaGPT's client access flips this. An org publishes a database and invites a client by email — no seat, no subscription, no separate account required. If the client doesn't have a VerbaGPT account yet, one is created for them automatically. If they already do, from a completely unrelated org, that's fine too — access isn't tied to membership at all, just to a direct grant.
Usage is billed to your organization's own credits, with a cap per client and an aggregate cap across all of them, so a busy client doesn't quietly become an expensive one. Revoke access whenever the engagement ends. The client only ever sees the one dataset you shared — nothing else in your org.
The point isn't that access should be free. It's that the person who should decide whether it's free is you, not the platform.