Which means three things. It’s free right now. It’s open to a small number of curators, not everyone. And what a curator earns during the pilot — free events, launch prices, referral credits — is kept afterwards.
Set your event date and choose how long you want to screen for. The window closes the day before your event and opens that many days earlier. Everyone who applies inside it is screened, however many that turns out to be.
| You want to screen for | Costs | Or use |
|---|---|---|
| 7 days | $35 | 1 credit |
| 14 days | $45 | 1 credit |
| 21 days | $55 | 1 credit |
| 30 days | $65 | 1 credit |
Not a subscription. You pay when you actually run something — a monthly plan charges you hardest in the months you run nothing at all.
WSPR never touches money between you and your guests. Your door, your deposits, your arrangements — this is screening only.
Screening closes the day before your event, and every answer is deleted 72 hours after the night. The full calendar is on the main page.
You can push any event back up to two weeks — whichever window you bought. Everyone who already screened comes with you. Nobody answers twice.
Why it costs anything: pushing the night back doesn’t move your screening, it lengthens it — same $10 a week.
Why two weeks is the limit: people answered because they could make that night. Past two weeks their answers are deleted and the new night starts fresh.
Credits work like book credits. You collect them, and you spend one when you set up an event — any window, seven days to thirty. They are the reason to bring somebody in now rather than later.
What the pilot asks in return is one real event — a live room with real applicants rather than a test with three friends — and a straight answer afterwards about what would have made the night easier.
No. It is the same product, feature for feature — every report, every window length, unlimited applicants, the same guest list on the night. There is no paid tier sitting behind a wall.
No, and it couldn’t be. The deletion schedule isn’t a setting on your account, it’s how the system is built: the key that can read an event’s data is destroyed on a timer. Paying wouldn’t change it and not paying doesn’t weaken it.
The launch prices, permanently. Every event run during the pilot free forever. And credits that keep stacking the whole time, because a free event doesn’t spend one — so the paid era opens with screenings already covered. Nobody joining later is offered any of that.
Nothing you have to act on. The events you ran stay free permanently. You keep the launch prices above for as long as you keep hosting. Any credits you collected are still there to spend. Pilot curators are told directly, well before anything changes — never by a billing screen, and never with a card already on file.
Real rooms. A screening tool that has never met fifty real applicants is a guess, and the only way to close that gap is live events with live guest lists. Pilot curators are the ones who turn it into something shaped by how the work actually goes, and the free events, the kept prices and the credits are what that is worth.