> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.surfacd.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Pitch Projects

> Run a free 7-day AI visibility snapshot — perfect for pitches, audits, and trials — then promote it to ongoing monitoring.

A **pitch project** is a time-boxed snapshot of AI visibility: it collects data daily for **7 days** and then stops automatically. Pitch projects use **no credits** — they're ideal for agency pitches, quick audits, or trying Surfacd on a new brand before committing to ongoing monitoring.

<Note>
  Pitch projects are available on **Custom** plans only. Contact support to enable them for your team.
</Note>

## How the 7-Day Window Works

1. **Create the pitch** — pick Pitch in the project wizard, name it, and choose your brand and platforms as usual.
2. **Add prompts** — collection starts the moment your first prompts are collected, not when the project is created. A pitch with no prompts never starts its clock.
3. **Daily collection for 7 days** — from the day of that first collection, the project collects once per day for seven calendar days.
4. **The window closes** — collection stops automatically. All reports stay fully visible; the project just becomes read-only for data collection.

While the pitch is running, its card shows a countdown ("Collecting — N days left"). Before the first collection it shows "Awaiting first collection", and afterwards "Pitch ended".

## Limits

Pitch projects don't use credits. Instead they have their own limits, set by your plan:

| Limit             | Meaning                                                                                           |
| ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Parallel pitches  | How many pitches can be pending or running at once. Finished or archived pitches free up a slot.  |
| Prompts per pitch | The maximum prompts a single pitch can track (the project's prompt limit is fixed at this value). |
| Platforms         | Which AI platforms a pitch can monitor.                                                           |

Pitch projects don't count toward your plan's project limit, and your regular projects don't count toward your pitch allowance.

## What's Fixed on a Pitch

To keep pitches simple and free, a few settings are locked while a project is a pitch:

* **Schedule** — always daily for the 7-day window; it can't be changed.
* **Prompt limit** — fixed at your plan's pitch prompt cap.
* **Platforms** — limited to your plan's pitch platform list.

You can still edit prompts, brands, competitors, and tags at any time — including after the window ends (edits after the window don't trigger new collection).

## Promoting a Pitch

Once the 7-day window has ended, you can **promote** the pitch into a regular ongoing project — keeping every prompt, brand, and all the data already collected:

1. Open the **Pitch** tab on your projects dashboard
2. On the ended pitch, choose **Promote**
3. Pick **Daily** or **Weekly** monitoring
4. Confirm — credits are reserved for the new schedule from that moment, and collection resumes at the next scheduled run

Promotion needs a free project slot and enough available credits for the chosen schedule. If you're short, you'll see exactly how many credits are needed — free up credits, adjust other projects, or upgrade, then try again.

<Tip>
  Sharing works on pitch projects just like regular projects — a read-only share link of a finished pitch makes a great leave-behind for a client pitch. See [Sharing & Collaboration](/docs/sharing-collaboration).
</Tip>