Field GuideReal businesses you can run with AI engines behind them
Recovery & money-finding

Subscription and bill review service

The average household pays for subscriptions it forgot, doesn’t use, or actively tried to cancel. US states have been passing auto-renewal laws with teeth, and when a company obstructs cancellation or renews without the required notice, the customer often has a refund remedy spelled out in statute.

This service reviews a customer’s recurring charges, tells them what to cancel and how, and when a company broke the rules, prepares the demand letter.

The job

The customer walks you through their card and bank statements (or just forwards the list of recurring charges). You run each questionable one through a cancel-versus-keep review, and for the ones where the company violated auto-renewal law (no renewal notice, obstruction of cancellation, free-trial conversion without consent), you run the rights check and generate a citation-locked demand letter for refund.

Deliverable: a one-page savings plan (cancel these, downgrade those, here’s the annual number) plus any demand letters, ready to send.

Who it suits

A good first business. Low stakes, immediate visible results, and every adult you know is a potential customer.

Startup cost and tools

WhatCostNotes
Engine calls per client~$0.50–$2.60A few subscription reviews ($0.08 each), a rights check ($0.10), and a demand letter ($2.00) when warranted
Payment + intake page$0–$45/moStandard stack

Engine prices are the live public catalog prices, the same sheet agents pay. No subscription is required to use them.

The licensing question

No license applies to reviewing bills and preparing letters the customer sends. Flat fee, not a percentage of savings. Don’t log into anyone’s accounts; they share statements, you review.

How the engine does the heavy lifting

The engine does the cancel-or-keep math per service, checks the state auto-renewal statute against what happened, and drafts demand letters citing the exact violated duties.

DealPulse · dealpulse.theaslangroupllc.com · openapi.json
/api/deals/subscriptions$0.08Subscription review — cancel vs. keep analysis with cost savings
/api/deals/subscription-rights$0.10Subscription-trap rights check — state auto-renewal law duties, violations, and remedy math (deterministic, no LLM)
/api/deals/subscription-letter$2.00Citation-locked subscription demand letter — refund / unconditional-gift / cancellation-obstruction ($2)

Your first customer in 30 days

  1. Do your own household first and write down the annual savings number. That number is your ad.
  2. Charge flat: one household review, one price. Resist percentage-of-savings pricing even though customers suggest it; it changes your legal posture and your incentives.
  3. Offer three friends-and-family reviews for testimonials.
  4. Post the plain math (average subscriptions per household, average forgotten spend) one place where your local community talks money.

Hand this to your assistant

This blueprint has a machine-readable page with the current endpoints, prices, and setup steps. Paste this into Claude, ChatGPT, or any assistant that can fetch a URL:

I'm reading a Field Guide blueprint for a subscription and bill review service business. Fetch https://pulse.theaslangroupllc.com/fieldguide/subscription-bill-review.json and walk me through it: what the service does, the live engine endpoints and their current catalog prices, the licensing notes as they'd apply where I live, and the first-30-days steps. Then help me decide honestly whether this fits my skills, time, and situation.

Machine page: https://pulse.theaslangroupllc.com/fieldguide/subscription-bill-review.json

Start this one

The engines are pay-per-call, no subscription. Agents pay per call over x402 (USDC on Base or Solana). If you're a human, get a starter key: it takes about a minute, includes a $0.25 trial balance, and tops up by card (Stripe) or USDC. No crypto wallet required. Prefer email? Write to info@theaslangroupllc.com with the subject "Starter key: subscription-bill-review" and we'll provision one by hand, usually the same day.

The Field Guide book, with all 75 blueprints expanded, is in progress. The hub is free either way.