Prefinery

Prefinery is a pre-launch waiting list and referral program platform aimed at product teams. The vendor, Compulsivo, Inc., says it has run the product since 2008 and describes itself as bootstrapped with no investors. The listing sits in the pre-launch category.

The documented features include unique referral links that record each share, ranking of people on a waitlist or leaderboard through customizable scoring algorithms, a form that is published on a website by copying a snippet, translation of user-facing text, and trigger-based emails such as autoresponders, referral, invitation and reward messages. Whether the product can send a one-off bulk email to a whole list is not shown in the pages read. A REST API is documented.

Pricing is self-serve and published. Lite is $49 a month, Essentials $249 and Pro $499 on monthly billing, and billing every six months brings them to $39, $199 and $399 a month. The plans include 1,000, 10,000 and 50,000 users, and extra users cost $0.005 each per month. Emails are unlimited, campaigns are capped at 1, 3 and 10, and every plan has a 14-day trial. An Enterprise plan with a service-level agreement, phone support and purchase-order payment is arranged by contacting the vendor.

Integrations are available through Zapier and Make, with an integrations page listing about 50 apps as actions.

What the data shows

• Update activity: Unknown. No app-store listing or changelog was found.
• Market presence: Growing. Tranco rank 488,649, no Chrome UX Report field data, domain registered in 2006.
• Buying style: Self-serve (public pricing; sign up without talking to sales; a custom or enterprise plan through sales).
• Status page: one exists at status.prefinery.com; no incident count was recorded.
• Security page: hosted on AWS in the USA, with GDPR and CCPA statements and no SOC 2 or HIPAA claim.
• Headquarters country is not stated; the terms name Texas law.
• Pricing was checked against the rendered live pricing page on 2026-09-30.