Pro is now free for your first 14 days

Starting today, every new Caissablanca account gets full access to Pro for 14 days, automatically. No credit card. No "start trial" button to hunt for. You sign up, you're in, and the good stuff is unlocked from the very first click.

What you get for 14 days

Everything Pro gives you, with no asterisks. Specifically:

• Unlimited Puzzles from your real games - connect to Chess.com or Lichess and solve puzzles
• Unlimited Stockfish analysis on any position
• Full game review on every game you import
• Chess.com and Lichess integration so your games come in automatically
• Unlimited Caissa AI messages, no daily cap

For comparison, the free tier gives you 10 Caissa AI messages and 1 game review per day, plus Stockfish analysis, but no Puzzles. That's enough to get a feel for things, but it's not enough to live in the product. The trial is meant to let you live in it.

What happens after day 14

Nothing scary. We are not going to charge you. We don't even have your card.

When the trial ends, your account quietly drops to the free tier. The Caissa AI cap comes back. The daily game review limit comes back. Everything you analyzed during the trial stays where it is. If you decide Pro is worth keeping, you click the upgrade button and subscribe. If you decide it isn't, you just keep using the free version, and we're glad you tried it.

We thought about this a lot. The pattern most products follow is "ask for a card up front, auto-charge on day 15, hope the user forgot to cancel." That's not the kind of company we want to be. If Pro is good enough that you want to pay for it, you'll tell us. If it isn't, the silent downgrade is the honest outcome.

To make sure nobody is caught off guard, the navbar shows "Upgrade, N days left" the entire time you're in the trial, counting down. You'll always know exactly where you stand.

Onboarding now actually shows you the product

We rebuilt the post-signup flow at the same time. Here's what happens after you create an account:

1. You connect your Chess.com account, or your Lichess account, or skip it if you'd rather not.
2. If you connected, we pull your recent games and start analyzing them. While that's running, we generate puzzles from the positions you've actually played.
3. You see a short "we're working on it" screen, and then you're dropped into the app with your own games and your own puzzles waiting for you.

By the time the trial countdown is anywhere close to mattering, you've already used Pro on positions you genuinely care about, your games. Not a demo board. Not someone else's masterclass. Your blunder from last Tuesday.

A note for existing users

If you already had an account when this rolled out, you got 14 fresh days too. Same deal: full Pro access, no charge, automatic downgrade at the end. Open the app and you should already see the countdown in the navbar. If you've been on the fence about Pro, this is the painless way to find out whether it's for you.

Pricing, briefly

When the trial ends and you decide you want to keep Pro, it's $4.99/month or $39.99/year (which works out to 33% off the monthly rate). That's it. No tiers above that, no upsells, no enterprise plan we're going to try to push you into.

Why we did this

Caissablanca is small. We don't have a marketing budget. The only way we grow is if the product is good enough that people who try it stick around and tell their friends. That math only works if people actually get to try the product, the real one, not the locked version.

Two weeks is enough time to import your games, analyze a few, ask Caissa some real questions about real positions, work through some puzzles, and form an honest opinion. If the answer is yes, great, we'd love to have you. If it's no, we'd rather you walk away knowing exactly what you said no to.

"I have suggestions!"

Great! You can contact us at sebastian@soleinnovations.com. Any feedback is welcome! We want to build what our users want, so let us know how we can make Caissablanca better for you!