Replace free tier with 7‑day trial to improve conversion and revenue

Replace free tier with 7‑day trial to improve conversion and revenue targets a $2.1B = 50M potential paying learners × $42/year average subscription total addressable market with medium saturation and a year-over-year growth rate of 30% YoY — summarization and AI-assist tools adoption driven by LLM improvements and rising newsletter monetization opportunities (industry synthesis: McKinsey AI adoption trends 2023; industry newsletter growth reports 2022–24).

Key trends driving demand: Trend — AI summarization quality is improving rapidly, enabling automated, useful short-form summaries from transcripts and lowering cost-per-summary.; Trend — There is rising consumer appetite for curated daily digests (email newsletters) as attention becomes the primary constraint for professionals.; Trend — Creator economy growth increases the volume of long-form instructional video content, creating more demand for curation and time-saving abstractions.; Trend — Privacy-friendly, email-first products are regaining user trust as consumers prefer owned channels (email) over platform-only notifications..