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Session two: the seat side, and how Gemini is sold per user. Start with Workspace itself. The Gemini Business and Enterprise add ons were retired in early twenty twenty five and the AI was folded into the Workspace editions, with Business Standard and Plus and Enterprise Standard and Plus repriced upward to carry it. Every seat on the plan pays for Gemini whether the user opens it or not.
The uplift arrived as a price change on the base edition, not as a line the buyer could decline. I am Claire, Tom is with me, and this is the Google AI Negotiation Series.
Three more seat products sit on top. AI Expanded Access: a per user add on that raises usage limits and opens video and image generation, deep research, and the higher models to users who exhaust the included quota; it is the first place the seat side starts to behave like consumption. Gemini Enterprise: the agent platform, sold as a second seat in Business, Standard, Plus, and Frontline editions, with annual commitment pricing below month to month, an included quota of agent actions, and consumption billed against a credit pool beyond it. And Gemini Code Assist: per developer per month, with API calls above the allowance billed through Vertex.
Then the plan mechanics. Workspace runs on Annual or Flexible plans. Annual plans commit the seat count for the year, with additions allowed and reductions blocked until renewal. Flexible plans allow month to month changes at a higher unit price.
Google proposes Annual for the whole population and prices the flexibility out of reach. And the compliance layer: Workspace licenses are enforced technically, so there is no audit in the Oracle sense. The compliance motion is the true up. Users provisioned above the committed count are billed at the then current rate, and unused seats are not credited.
Directory sprawl and service accounts on full editions are the recurring findings.
Where the seat side money sits, line by line. The Workspace edition: Google opens with Enterprise Plus for all, annual, list uplift accepted; the trap is the AI uplift paid on every seat including light users and shared accounts. AI Expanded Access: proposed for the whole population; the trap is an add on for users who never hit the included limit. Gemini Enterprise seats: all knowledge workers, Standard or Plus, year one; the trap is sixty percent adoption paying for one hundred percent of seats.
The seat quota: included per seat, overage at card rate, uncapped. And the true up: provisioned seats billed at the then current rate.
Against each trap, the buyer side structure. Edition mix by role: light users on Business Standard or Frontline, and the base rate protected for the term. Expanded Access only for users with measured usage above the quota, with a right to remove it at anniversary. Gemini Enterprise as a pilot population first, seats staged to adoption thresholds, Frontline for light use, and additions at the same net rate.
The quota pooled across the tenant, the overage rate fixed, and a monthly ceiling. And a quarterly reconciliation of provisioned to active, with the true up at the committed rate rather than the then current one.
The pattern to notice: every seat side line has a version where Google prices the whole population and a version where you price the users who actually use it. The difference is the edition mix, the pilot threshold, and the pooled quota, and none of it is in Google's proposal, because Google will not propose it. Session three walks the six moves that put it there. The full research note is free under this video, and the series lives at redresscompliance dot com slash google ai negotiation series.
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