// Add-on · Exclusivity Period

The businesses you reach first stay yours.

StellarReach was deliberately built so two agencies can work the same market — there is no global lock on a prospect. The Exclusivity Period add-on is the switch that stops that happening to you: email a business first and you hold it for 60 days, and no other StellarReach agency can reach it while you do.

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Why this is worth paying for

A merchant who received an AI redesign on Tuesday is worth far less to the agency that sends one on Thursday. The scarcity here isn’t manufactured — overlap genuinely destroys the value of the pitch. So we sell the thing that’s actually scarce: being first.

Overlap degrades the pitch

The demo works because it’s a surprise. The second one that lands in the same inbox is a commodity, and the third is spam. Being first isn’t a nice-to-have in this channel — it’s most of the advantage.

The default is open

Prospects are scoped per workspace, on purpose: two agencies can each track the same domain independently, and neither is told. Without this add-on, nothing stops another StellarReach agency working the street you just swept.

You did the work of being early

You picked the market, tuned the rubric, and got there first. The lease just makes that head start hold for long enough to convert it.

How the lease works

Reach them first

The moment your first outreach email to a business actually sends, a 60-day hold starts. It fires exactly once per business per workspace — on the send itself, not on a queued or drafted email.

Their engagement rolls it forward

Every genuine signal from the prospect pushes the window out another 60 days: a demo click, a visit to their project brief, a message to the brief assistant, a connected call, a reply. Your own activity never extends it — only theirs. A live conversation can’t time out from under you.

Go quiet and it lapses

No engagement, and the hold expires and the business returns to the pool. That’s deliberate: a lock you can sit on forever would just let early movers freeze whole markets. If a quiet lead is still worth holding, you can keep it — see the pricing below.

What it does — and what it honestly doesn’t

It blocks other StellarReach agencies

While you hold a business, another workspace’s outreach to it is stopped at the send — not warned about, blocked. The same check runs on the automated follow-up stages, so nothing slips out on a later touch.

It does not lock out the whole world

A hold inside StellarReach stops StellarReach users. It cannot stop the freelancer down the road who has never heard of us, and we won’t pretend otherwise. What you’re buying is speed plus exclusivity within the tool that makes this play work.

Nobody learns your territory

The registry behind this stores a hashed business identity, a timestamp and a coarse area — never which workspace touched what. Another agency can see a business is taken; it can’t see that it’s taken by you, and you can’t see whose it is either. The saturation signal is mutual and anonymous by construction.

It fails open, never closed

Enforcement blocks somebody’s legitimate send, so it only ever acts on a positive confirmation that a hold exists and is paid for. If anything is unreadable or uncertain, the send goes through. We’d rather miss a block than wrongly stop your email.

What you’ll see

Claims on the lead

A business already held elsewhere is marked as claimed in your pipeline, with the date the hold lapses — so you know to come back rather than wondering why an email didn’t go.

A weekly held-leads audit

If you’re paying to hold quiet leads, an email each week lists exactly which ones and what they cost, with a nudge to release the ones that have gone cold. A hold you’ve forgotten about is money leaking, so we tell you rather than quietly billing.

Release anything, anytime

Drop a hold from the lead whenever you like and the charge stops. Nothing here is a commitment beyond the month you’re in.

What it costs

Exclusivity Period

$39 per seat per month (or $390 per seat per year, about two months free), charged at your plan’s seat count — so $39 on Starter, $117 on Growth, $390 on Scale and $975 on Agency. That covers every hold your workspace earns by being first, for as long as each lead keeps engaging.

Holding a lead that has gone quiet, past its free window, is $5 per lead per month — opt in per lead, cancel per lead. You’re only ever billed for holds you deliberately kept.

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Why “Exclusivity Period”

Astronomy has a convention called the proprietary period: the team that gathered a set of telescope observations gets an exclusive window to work with the data before it becomes public. Not a permanent claim on the sky — just first use, for a while, because they did the work of pointing the telescope. That’s the shape of this add-on, and where its name comes from.

Claim your market before someone else runs the same play.

Spin up a workspace, point StellarReach at your area, and hold what you reach first.

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