The Factory SaaS wires the Spine into working software: auto-checked gates, the self-improvement loop, hosted agents with logging and alerts. The waitlist gets first access and founding pricing. Priority members get onboarded before the general list.
Free puts you on the list in order of signup. Priority ($50) puts you ahead of the free list at launch, and the full $50 is credited against your first year. If we never launch, you get it back. Plainly: it is a deposit, not a fee.