CUTOUTJET Backgrounds out. Edges intact. Product brief — October 23, 2026 STATUS CutoutJet is a development-stage hosted people-and-portrait background-removal service. The current system includes a Rust control plane and a revision-pinned GPU inference worker. The initial commercial scope is people and portraits. Product, vehicle, animal, glass, and general-scene support will not be sold until a separately cleared model passes its category-specific quality gate. The commercial product is the managed service only: customers buy credits for successful outputs while CutoutJet owns the model version, GPU fleet, queue, storage, rollbacks, and operating controls. Paid checkout is not open yet. It remains gated on production model rights, provider deployment, fulfillment, legal, security, and operational evidence. MEASURED DEVELOPMENT EVIDENCE - 423.23 ms mean and 462.40 ms p95 in one 50-image development CUDA run - 100/100 successful requests in one development concurrency-2 probe - One 1.6 MP proof result returned in 971 ms through that GPU path - Machine-readable benchmark evidence records runtime and hardware provenance These figures are measurements from the named development runs, not production SLAs, capacity promises, or matched competitor benchmarks. QUALITY EVIDENCE AND LIMITS The current paired diagnostic favored remove.bg on 33 of 50 typical images and CutoutJet on 17. Aggregate preview-grid MAE favored CutoutJet at 0.00376 versus 0.00670, but a few large competitor failures materially influenced the aggregate. Forty-nine competitor outputs were reduced-resolution previews and the references were lossy. This is a useful development gate, not evidence of full-resolution equivalence or superiority. The next gate is a rights-cleared, lossless 1,000-image holdout scored on alpha error, boundary quality, failure rate, manual-edit minutes, latency, and fully loaded production cost. PROPOSED HOSTED CREDIT PACKS — CATALOG V3 Starter pack $29 once 500 non-expiring credits Growth pack $329 once 10,000 non-expiring credits Scale pack $1,799 once 75,000 non-expiring credits Every tier uses the same hosted production model and output contract. The intended contract is one credit per successful output up to 10 MP. Failed jobs and verified idempotent retries should not consume another credit. These terms remain proposals until the production ledger, Stripe webhook fulfillment, customer terms, tax handling, and support process pass their launch gates. Checkout is fail-closed: the site calls CutoutJet's server-created Checkout API only when its exact site/API origins and release acknowledgement are present. Prices, entitlements, Stripe account identity, and idempotency stay authoritative on the server. The return URL is https://cutoutjet.com/thanks; that page is never treated as payment proof. HOSTED SERVICE CONTRACT - CutoutJet operates the fixed, version-pinned model and GPU capacity. - Customers choose credit volume, not a model, server, GPU, or license tier. - The public API returns transparent PNG output for PNG, JPEG, or WebP input. - The async path keeps uploads and outputs private and settles one credit only after a durable successful result. - Model changes require a measured quality gate and an operator-controlled rollback; price tiers do not receive different output quality. COMPETITOR CONTEXT COST — The proposed CutoutJet packs are $29 / 500, $329 / 10,000, and $1,799 / 75,000. Against remove.bg's official October 23, 2026 monthly subscription list prices of $89, $989, and $5,450 at those same volumes, each CutoutJet pack is 32.6%–33.3% of the reference price. CutoutJet is a one-time prepaid offer; remove.bg is a monthly subscription. This deliberately moderate position is not a claim that CutoutJet is cheaper than every provider or that quality, availability, features, support, or SLAs are equivalent. Recheck the official source before every publication or within 30 days, whichever comes first. SPEED — One development CutoutJet CUDA run measured 423.23 ms mean across 50 images. Historical remove.bg remote calls measured 1,509 ms mean across 27 successful requests. Network, hardware, resolution, timing, and test dates differ, so the observed 3.6x gap is directional engineering evidence only—not a production speed or superiority claim. QUALITY — CutoutJet led aggregate preview-grid MAE while remove.bg won per-image MAE on 33 images to CutoutJet's 17. The diagnostic establishes neither matched full-resolution quality nor superiority. LAUNCH GATES 1. Secure commercially clear production model, weight, and dataset rights. 2. Complete the rights-cleared, lossless 1,000-image holdout. 3. Load-test the exact hosted GPU image and SKU; document capacity and failures. 4. Deploy and qualify the durable database, queue, object store, authentication, credit ledger, and idempotent Stripe webhook fulfillment. 5. Complete security, privacy, refund, tax, support, and incident-response work. 6. Supply the verified legal operator identity and jurisdiction and obtain legal review before publishing the draft legal pages. 7. Validate repeat production usage and edit-time savings with consenting users. CONTACT AND LEGAL STATUS Support and launch inquiries: support@cutoutjet.com CutoutJet is a working name pending trademark and legal-entity clearance. This brief is informational, not an offer of securities or a promise of availability.