Sources sweep — the four verdicts + the round-5 shortlist

1 · Free trial NO AT LAUNCH

Port the transferable half: exact renewal price + date at the CTA, cancel-anytime, and a "remind me before renewal" promise — the anxiety-reduction patterns behind trial lifts (40–55% of trial cancels are day-0 self-protection). Fallback documented: one Apple intro offer on annual, only if post-launch data demands it, shipped with §3 amendments.

2 · A/B tooling NO SDK IN-HOUSE RIG

Superwall/RevenueCat/Adapty add a third party to a legally-reviewed money screen for a capability we already own server-side. In-house rig ≈ 3–4 dev-days: admin-config experiment weights → stable per-user variant → compiled-in variant map (control fallback) → milestone events; conversion truth is already server-side. Now: build only the event instrumentation (variant = "control") so the baseline compounds; gate variant assignment on ~2–5K monthly paywall views. Until then, iteration stays judgment-driven — these shotgun rounds.

3 · X-thread patterns

• ADOPT"Remind me before renewal" toggle — the one steal that appeared independently twice (PictureThis $12M paywall + FitBod in the galleries). Server rail already exists.
• ADOPTFull-disclosure price line ("AED 749.99/year — that's 14.42 a week") and factual personalization ("Coverage for you in Dubai").
• LAWContextual paywalls: gate setup, never rescue. No payment surface in any emergency path, ever.
• REJECTDesign-Your-Trial · $0.99 safety net · exit-offer discounts (live 56%-off specimen captured — the fake anchor we can never touch) · mascot guilt-close · 84%-off decoy grids.

4 · Gallery steal list (protection-category vision pass)

1. Proof-of-protection strip — Citizen embeds a simulated agent-on-standby push; Life360 shows the real map+timeline. ELA analog: the dispatch moment as UI-true miniature ("Consulate notified · 04:32").
2. Coverage timeline, honestly repurposed — Today → verification window → protection active (the trial-timeline pattern mapped to our real onboarding truth).
3. Value rows with REAL app thumbnails — miniatures of our actual armed screen/timeline instead of abstract icons (AllTrails pattern).
4. Insurance amounts as tier line items + underwriter footnote — Aura's "$2M insurance" rows; ours stays generic ("underwritten by a regulated UAE insurer" — named insurer stays out of app copy per standing law).
5. YNAB-style explicit clarity line at CTA — "I understand this renews at AED 749.99/year" energy, as calm copy not a checkbox.
6. Both-columns-checked dispatch table — the anti-"notification-only" vaccine if we ever show tiers side-by-side.
7. Per-week equivalence validated in the wild — always beside the real price, never instead (Weather Hi-Def's same-unit comparison is the cleanest form; G1 already does this).

Rejected on record: spin-wheels, countdown discounts, strikethrough anchors, swipe-to-decline, charge-concealing "Continue" buttons.

Citizen — proof-of-protection push

Aura — insurance line items + underwriter

Copilot — the timeline pattern

Life360 — map as proof

FitBod — remind-me toggle

Weather Hi-Def — per-week rows

YNAB — explicit renewal clarity

AllTrails — real-UI thumbnails

Falou — the fake-anchor specimen (cautionary)

Round-5 shortlist (F1 lineage)

1. Proof strip: F1's value zone gains the dispatch-moment miniature (simulated notified-card / mini timeline) — real-UI, not abstract.
2. Renewal-clarity block at the CTA: exact billed amount + renewal date + "we'll remind you before renewal" toggle.
3. Coverage timeline variant: payment → verification window → protected, as the value spine.
4. Keep: G1's per-week grid, the sheet, Save 42%/26%, Restore + legal. Never: anything on the rejected list.