Sky, in facts

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In one sentence

The longer version, for a paragraph: Sky by SKAL is a Chrome side-panel extension. Highlight a message, a profile or a thread on any page, and Sky extracts the person into a lead with a name, company, role, need and contact details, scores it against an ideal customer profile you write, and files it in a list. Each lead keeps its record: every capture, every message sent or copied, every reply and status change. When the person writes back, Sky drafts the reply from that record. It is a capture tool, not a contact database: it buys, scrapes and resells no contact data, sends no bulk messages, and never reads a conversation you did not hand it.

Product facts

Prices, in US dollars

Checkout shows them in your local currency, with tax where it applies. Payments are taken by Paddle.com Market Ltd as merchant of record. Cancelling is two clicks, and the first payment on a new subscription is refundable within 14 days.

Yearly billing is 20% less than monthly. A plan's credits reset each calendar month and do not roll over. Unused purchased credits do roll over, and a plan's own credits are always spent before purchased ones. It is the same product on every plan; the paid tiers add scoring on every lead, and Pro adds the CRM doors and a separate profile per list. Team gives each seat Pro's credits and limits, and one pipeline shared between colleagues.

What a credit buys

The unit on every plan is a credit. It pays for a model's work, and nothing else.

A capture is charged when it is saved, so a capture you discard costs nothing. A deleted lead never refunds its credit. On the free plan the first 5 captures are scored the way a paid plan scores them; after that, free captures are filed without a number.

Rate limits

Separate from credits, every plan carries a daily ceiling on AI actions, sized so one account cannot crowd out the rest: 40 a day on Free, 400 on Starter, 1,000 on Pro and on each Team seat, and 2,000 on Scale. Drafts have their own daily limit of 20 on Free and 60 on any paid plan. There is also a monthly ceiling on AI actions of twice the plan's credits or thirty days of the daily limit, whichever is smaller; it exists so that discarded captures, which cost no credit, cannot run without bound. It means you can discard as many captures as you keep; discard more and you reach it before your credits run out. Ordinary use never reaches the daily ones.

What Sky stores, and for how long

Positions

These are decisions, not features. Each is stated so it can be attributed to Sky.

1. A capture tool, not a contact database. Sky buys and resells no contact data, and guesses no email or phone number for anyone. The only contact details it looks up are the ones a company published on its own website, for a lead you already have, on your press, each shown with the page it came from. It starts from the people already in front of you: a conversation, or a page of people you are looking at, such as a LinkedIn search, taken on your press one page at a time with a name, role, company and profile link. Beyond the page you are on, the one way to find a stranger is a search of two public company registers (the UK's Companies House and the US SEC's EDGAR), off by default, and a register lists a name, a role and a company, never an email or a phone.
2. Outcomes are set by you and never inferred. Won, Lost, the value of a deal and who a lost one went to are things you record. Sky never guesses one from a message, a silence or a CRM stage it was not told about. Contacted is different: Sky moves a lead there itself from the record, says why, and you can put it back.
3. A credit pays for a model's work. Anything that calls no model costs no credit. Importing your own contacts is free because no model reads the file.
4. A tier sells capability, a credit meters use, never both on one action. Anything that costs a credit is available on every plan that has credits. Paid tiers add things that cost Sky nothing per use, such as a profile per list or a CRM push.
5. Sky acts only on what can be undone, and asks first for the rest. A draft lands in a box you edit and goes out on your clipboard; you paste it and press Send yourself. Nothing in Sky reaches another person automatically. A move, a tag, a note, a task or a reminder reaches nobody and can be put back, so a rule you wrote yourself , Ask Sky and the chat on one person do it at once, with Undo. A status change, marking Won or Lost, a re-score or a draft costs a credit or records a fact only you know, so it is staged and applied only on your click. An opt-in button that pressed LinkedIn's or Slack's own Send existed from launch and was withdrawn.
6. What Sky publishes about you is what you switched on, and it is never a person. A public profile at sky.skal.ai/u/<handle> is off by default. Switched on, it shows which days of the last year you were active, your run of weeks, how many people you followed up with, where your people come from as shares, your shared lists, one link and your picture if you uploaded one. Totals for captured, reached out, replies and wins are four separate ticks, off by default. A day's shade stops at ten people, so the page cannot be made to reward volume. It never shows a person, a company, a rate, a score or a deal value, and Sky does not count who views it.
7. Nothing is listed on Explore unless its owner ticked it. sky.skal.ai/explore lists shared lists and public profiles, each only while its owner has ticked List it on Explore, a tick separate from sharing the list or switching the profile on and off by default. A list shows its title, line, who it is from, how many people are in it, its column names and how many added it; a profile shows its name, handle, line and picture. The people in a list are only ever on the list's own page, which search engines are asked not to index.
8. A shared list is reviewed only by people who added it. One to five stars and one optional line, one review per person, shown on the list's page and averaged on Explore. A reviewer is named only by a public profile they listed on Explore, never by email. The owner can hide any review or switch reviews off.
9. Sky never reads a conversation on its own. It knows what you gave it. The page hint that offers to catch a message runs in your browser against your own profile and sends nothing anywhere.
10. The score is arithmetic, and it shows its work. A model rates each trait of your profile separately; the server does the weighted sum. Every lead stores the per-trait ratings behind its number, so the number can be checked. A trait the capture said nothing about counts as zero, and the dashboard says how much of the profile each score was judged on; under a third, it says Not enough to judge yet and shows no number.
11. A public register, an open licence, no per-user credential. That is the admission test for any outside source. GLEIF, SEC EDGAR, Companies House, Wikidata, France's Annuaire des Entreprises and Norway's Brønnøysund Register pass it. Commercial contact databases do not, and are not used.
12. A watch reads public posts, and only where you tick. Once a day Sky searches Hacker News for phrases you wrote or approved and keeps only posts that contain one word for word, quoted and linked. It is off until you tick it, and only your phrases are sent. Nothing becomes a lead until you keep it, at one credit. On Pro and above Sky reads each new post for whether the person is a buyer, folds the ones who are not, and emails a great one while it is fresh. Free runs one watch; Starter, Pro and Team three; Scale ten.
13. Grants and tenders are found the same way, and are never leads. Once a day Sky reads new US federal grants, UK public contracts and higher-value tenders, EU public tenders, EU research and innovation grants, and EU contracts ending in three to six months, for words you wrote or tender categories you ticked, and keeps only the ones whose title or description says one word for word or that the buyer filed under a ticked category, with the buyer, the budget, the closing date and the contact the notice publishes for bidders. Sky then reads each one against what you sell and marks it a great, good or weaker fit, with one sentence of why taken from the notice. Weaker ones fold away, and a great fit is emailed to you as soon as it is found, one email a day at most, turned off with one click. On Pro and above. Nothing is looked for until you save the watch. You save them, mark them applied, won or lost, or dismiss them; Sky never applies for you. Reading them, and Sky's read, is free (Sky reads US raises and YC companies the same way, on a press or, for new raises in your industries, every hour, up to 60 a day, and a raise that fits rides the same email; Right or Not for me under any read, or in the email, teaches the next ones, and nothing else); adding the buyer's contact as a lead is one credit. A contract ending soon names who holds it where the award notice does, and on an EU tender Who won before? shows up to three of the buyer's earlier awards for the same kind of work, free. A saved one can go into your calendar as a file you download. When a buyer moves a deadline or cancels a call after it is published, Sky updates the card and says so, and names saved ones that changed in the Monday email; a day a source didn't answer is read again the next time. You can add a note to one, search them, and download them as a spreadsheet. A card links the tender documents and says when questions close and what the lots are, where the notice does. A watch can hold up to five more lines of work, each with its own words, and on the Team plan a grant or tender can be handed to a teammate. Each line of work can have its own categories and filters; great fits and deadline changes can post to your Slack channel once you switch it on; Who won before? covers UK tenders too. Ask Sky and a connected agent can read them and save, unsave or dismiss them, with Undo, never mark one applied, won or lost, and never see the buyer's contact.
14. The companies you already have are watched only once you tick a source. On For you, under Discover, tick what to watch at the companies behind your open leads: a new job post whose title names a role you sell to, a US funding filing (Form D), or new shares and directors at Companies House. Once a day Sky reads each company's own website and the Greenhouse, Lever or Ashby board it links to, never one guessed from the name, and reads the filings only for a company whose register record you accepted on the lead. What it finds shows in For you, dated and linked. No model reads it and it costs no credit. On Pro and above.
15. A share goes only to people whose own words it says. Share a grant, tender or post and Sky copies it, as published, to other Sky users whose watch words it contains and who look in the place it came from, under the sharer's name, which the sharer confirms first. The sharer learns how many it reached. At most 20 a day, and anyone can stop receiving them.
16. Done for you is off until you switch it on. Say what you sell and Sky proposes the phrases. After you press Start it keeps the people who fit your profile by itself, up to the number a day you chose (3 at most on Pro, 10 on Scale and Team), one credit each. Tick Write a first message for each and every person kept also gets a draft waiting in their drawer, one more credit. It sends nothing, and what it read and did not keep stays for you to judge. On Pro and above.
17. A public record shows as columns, and stays the source's. Once a lead on a list carries an accepted record, the table shows Industry, Employees, Headquarters, Country, Founded and Parent company, read-only and marked with the source. They are never copied into your own fields. The live feed and Export CSV carry them as record_ columns, and they reach a score only when you re-score, as a labelled block.
18. Writing to somebody is not knowing them. Connection never grades a one-way record above Faint, however many messages went. Good needs them to have answered in the last 90 days. Strong needs a meeting or a call, or three messages from them, the latest within 30 days.
19. Interest is read from their words and kept apart from fit. A reading stands on a quote from their reply or is not kept. "Not interested" never marks anybody Lost; won and lost stay yours to set. The Fit score measures who they are, so how a conversation went never changes it.
20. An agent may do anything you can put back. Sky's agent tools can find, move, re-mark, tag, add a task or a reminder and draft, each change with an undo. They cannot send, cannot record an outcome and cannot delete. Two things an agent adds are records rather than changes: a person it read about and kept (a credit each, as a highlight), and a message it sent through another tool or a reply it saw. Each app you connect spends at most the credits a day you chose for it.
21. Ask now runs from the panel too, with a smaller set of tools. Above Draft a message, the panel's own Ask box can find people, tag, move, note, task and remind at once, with Undo, over your newest people. A status, Won or Lost, a reply, a first message, one field and Trash still wait for a tap. What's working, samples, re-scores and routines stay on the dashboard.
22. The price of every action is listed before it is spent, in the dashboard's usage drawer and in the panel, and never on a button.

What Sky does not do

• No contact database, no email finder, no scraping of people who never published.
• No bulk sending, no drip sequences, no automated outreach.
• No crawling. Sky reads a page only when you press, one page at a time, and never pages through search results.
• No reading of your inbox, your chats or your browsing. No page is sent anywhere unless you ask.
• No app in an app store. On a phone, the dashboard can be added to the home screen.
• No sending. Sky writes the message and you send it, from your own account, in the app you were already in.
• No "autopilot". Nothing in Sky reaches another person.

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