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I’m interested but need clarity on long-term sustainability. Tier 3 gives 800 monthly credits for life and extra credits cost $49/1,000 (<$0.05/contact), far below typical verified/enriched contact-data costs (creatordb)

Does 1 credit always equal 1 creator export with a verified email (and phone if available)? If no valid/verified email exists, is a credit still charged? What does “verified” mean: real-time validation, periodic re-checking, or only at ingestion? How often are emails, profiles and metrics refreshed?

Most importantly, what makes this pricing viable after the LTD ends?If LTD usage grows faster than recurring revenue, what ensures the DB remains actively updated, cleaned and reliable rather than stale?

Your page says every export includes a verified email and contacts are updated weekly; please clarify the actual process.

hi there. I like what I see so far but credits go very very fast in you just checking profiles. It is frustrating not being able to check the social media accounts of the creator before revealing their profile and spending 1 credit. I want to spend that credit only when it is useful. Why don't you enable the links to the users social profiles before having to do the full reveal? This way I can check the type of content they publish before spending the credit. It happened few times that I spend the credit to see the type of content is not ideal after checking the profile on SM. Then I lost one credit on that profile for nothing. First 2 hours and I burnt 10 out of 50 monthly credits... not good!

does this make sense?
I can google the user name and search the social profiles but this defeats the purpose of jem.social saving time.