I bought Tier 3 on AppSumo. The original Digital First AI listing promised the following, word for word:

- "Lifetime access to Digital First AI"
- "All future Expert Plan updates"
- "Automated graphic design" — listed as an included feature
- "Previous AppSumo customers will be grandfathered into the new feature limits"

Then they rebuilt everything under a new name, "DFIRST", and here's what Tier 3 AppSumo buyers actually ended up with:

- 600 monthly credits
- 10 whiteboards, 10 workspaces
- Graphics and video editors not included — even though it was part of the original deal
- Basic video models only
- Social media scraping: 15 per whiteboard
- File import: 10 per whiteboard

Now compare that to what people get who bought the lifetime deal directly from their website:

- 1,700 monthly credits — nearly 3x more
- Unlimited whiteboards, workspaces, file imports, and social media scraping
- Graphics and video editors included
- All advanced LLM, graphic, and video models
- Full deep research access

So the original AppSumo listing said "automated graphic design" is included and promised "all future Expert Plan updates." The new Tier 3 plan removes graphics editors entirely and gives you a fraction of what the website LTD offers. That's not grandfathering. That's a downgrade disguised as a migration.

What's also funny is the timing. For months, AppSumo buyers were basically locked out. No communication, no updates, nothing. You couldn't really use the tool. And now, after all that silence, the founder suddenly crawls out to reply to reviews — not to actually fix anything, but to do damage control and spin the narrative.

In that response, the founder claims "NFT access was never intended to provide unlimited credits." Nobody ever said it was. I never mentioned unlimited credits. The original AppSumo listing doesn't mention unlimited credits either. So who exactly is he arguing with? He made up a claim nobody made and then "clarified" it. Classic deflection.

He also says "plans can't be compared line-by-line" because it's a different platform now. And that's exactly the trick here. They didn't build something fundamentally different. DFIRST does the same thing Digital First AI did — AI marketing tactics, funnels, content generation. They rebranded it, moved it to a new domain, and now use "it's a new platform" as an excuse to reset all the deal terms. That's not innovation. That's an exit strategy from their AppSumo commitments.

The listing literally says "Previous AppSumo customers will be grandfathered into the new feature limits." Grandfathered means you keep what you had. It doesn't mean you get a worse deal than people who buy from their website today.

The original deal promised lifetime access with Expert Plan updates and automated graphic design. What we got is 600 credits a month, no graphics editors, and a plan that's a fraction of what they sell on their own site. The founder's reply dodges all of this. Go check the AppSumo listing — everything I'm saying is right there.