You already pay California $6,000 a year just to stay registered; that fee rises to $9,500 for brokers registering in 2027. The law prices mistakes at $200 per person, per day. No one has been fined over a deletion round yet; the fines so far, $34,000 to $116,490, were all registration or data-handling slip-ups. Our core plan costs about what a privacy lawyer bills for two hours. The lawyer advises. We do the work. Not sure whether matching software or the full service fits your operation? Here's the actual difference.
$500 /mo, billed yearly
Self-serve. 14-day money-back, no deposit.
Book a 20-minute callfrom $750 /mo
Prefer to hand everything off? Full custody adds 30-50%. Five founding slots at a locked rate.
Book a 20-minute callfrom $1,500 /mo
Prices cover up to 100,000 customer records. Bigger list? Add $200 a month per additional 100,000. Past a million records, we scope it on the call.
Only need your state paperwork, and running the deletion rounds yourself? Registration Desk covers state registration filings and renewals only, without the deletion work, at $1,500-3,000 a year + state fees. Ask about it on the call.
On the service plans, your deposit is refundable in full until your first cycle runs. After that, month to month, with a 60-day out.
Match Engine is billed yearly and comes with a 14-day money-back window instead.
What we never do:
If we ever miss a deadline, the fix is already in the contract: we redo the work and credit the fee.
Matching software is fine. We sell it ourselves: that's Match Engine, $500 a month. What no software does: delete anything from your systems, write and send the vendor notices the law requires, handle the judgment calls that need your lawyer, or leave a record of who did what when. The higher plans are the work and the paper trail, not the software.
Compare it to the alternatives. A privacy lawyer bills $400-600 an hour, so $750 buys under two hours of advice a month, and most owners burn more than that just reading the rules. The $6,000 you send the state each year buys you nothing but permission to operate. This is the work itself, done and documented.
We redo the work and credit the fee, and that remedy is spelled out in the contract before you pay anything. We don't cover fines; nobody legitimate does, and anyone who offers to should worry you.
For the service plans, your deposit is fully refundable until your first cycle runs. After that it's month to month, with a 60-day out. Match Engine is billed yearly and comes with a 14-day money-back window instead.