{
  "$comment": "§New-2 Stage-2 extraction artifact for Gusto. This file is the evidence behind every Gusto number rendered anywhere on 0saas. If a field's confidence is not 'verified', the UI must render a link to the source, never a number.",
  "incumbent": "Gusto",
  "source_url": "https://gusto.com/product/pricing",
  "fetched_at": "2026-10-26",
  "extraction_method": "fetch official pricing page in-session (2026-10-26), extract plan cards + comparison table to strict JSON (no training-data recall)",
  "currency": "USD",
  "price_view_captured": "Plan cards with a monthly base plus per-person price; no free-forever payroll tier is offered.",
  "plans": [
    {
      "name": "Account setup",
      "price": "US$0",
      "price_period": "setup only",
      "highlights": [
        "No payroll runs",
        "No free-forever plan"
      ],
      "confidence": "verified"
    },
    {
      "name": "Simple",
      "price": "US$49",
      "price_period": "per month plus US$6 per person",
      "highlights": [
        "Full-service payroll",
        "Employee self-onboarding",
        "Health benefits admin"
      ],
      "confidence": "verified"
    },
    {
      "name": "Higher tiers",
      "price": null,
      "price_period": "see source",
      "highlights": [
        "HR advisory",
        "Hiring tools"
      ],
      "confidence": "unconfirmed"
    }
  ],
  "free_tier_ceiling_for_displacement_brief": {
    "claim": "There is no free payroll ceiling to optimize — only setup is free, so the deliverable is a timeline the team owns regardless of which provider wins the contract.",
    "confidence": "verified",
    "period_caveat": "Gusto publishes no free-forever plan; this page does not invent one. The honest comparison is paid Simple against a portable run document used inside any provider."
  },
  "field_confidence": {
    "free_tier_limit": "verified",
    "paid_tier_price": "verified",
    "per_feature_checkmarks": "unconfirmed"
  },
  "receipts": [],
  "next_check_due": "2026-11-25"
}