
Picking your first AI team plan
The minimum seats, billing commitments and per-seat costs that come with putting five people on Claude Team, ChatGPT Business, Google Workspace with Gemini, Perplexity Enterprise Pro or the MiniMax Token Plan.
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7 pieces on automation — practical workflows, case studies and field notes.

The minimum seats, billing commitments and per-seat costs that come with putting five people on Claude Team, ChatGPT Business, Google Workspace with Gemini, Perplexity Enterprise Pro or the MiniMax Token Plan.
A new AI model launched faster than the cost-tracking tools could price it. The workaround is a developer trick — but the habit behind it is one every cost-conscious UK team needs.

The defining shift of 2026 is that the free tiers are now genuinely capable. Here is a start-at-zero playbook for a café or sole trader before you pay for anything.

Anthropic just dropped Claude Fable 5 into the $20 tier and MiniMax M3 matches it on agentic work. For a small team, the value question has quietly flipped.

The headline tiers from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity have all landed around twenty dollars a month. Here is how a small UK retailer should think about per-seat spend now the sticker price is commoditised.

An illustrative reconciliation scenario, grounded in reported UK retail AI pilots, shows how automating vendor mapping turns a dreaded finance chore into a background task — and what it saves.

An illustrative scenario, grounded in reported logistics AI deployments, shows how route optimisation turns a daily planning grind into a quick review — and pays for itself inside a year.