I don’t think it’s a normal expectation for services with variable labor and materials to have a flat price associated. Certainly not for businesses buying said services. But there isn’t a single “charge per seat” software company that has a valid excuse for obfuscating pricing. Every software company I’ve worked with (and I’ve worked with hundreds over my career buying software for corps) has a “list price” for their product even if they hide it.

Love the idea! What if instead of stakeholders voting on everything you implemented a “steering committee” style model. Stakeholders meet/organize at some cadence to make larger decisions and decide the direction to “steer” the instance and the smaller decisions made in service of the direction decided by committee are left to the admins (decided/maintained by committee). The committee would have veto power over those decisions.

Just thinking of communication overhead and how the more is decided by committee upfront the less agile you can be.