Cost and value
2026-09-18 to 2026-10-18 · every figure traces to a run that actually happened
Cost to run
S$94
$15.58 models + $54.00 fixed
Cost avoided
S$5,110
work someone would have been paid to do
Founder time reclaimed
0.0h
long-form read on your behalf — counted in hours, deliberately not in dollars
For the finance view: every dollar spent running the portal returned 54.4× in work it no longer had to pay for — S$5,110 against S$94. Reclaimed capability is excluded from that on purpose.
What it did, and what that would have taken
| Task | Runs | Spent | Human equivalent | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
extract-features Reading a client's material and writing down the verifiable facts. | 13 | $4.93 | 60 min × researcher @ S$45/h | S$585 |
extract-memory Writing up a call or meeting into notes somebody will later rely on. | 181 | $3.59 | 30 min × account_mgr @ S$50/h | S$4,525 |
What became possible that was not before
Reported in hours, never valued in dollars. Nobody was doing this work, so no cost was avoided — and putting a rate on founder time invites an argument the hours do not need.
- 19.5h founder
| Task | Runs | Spent | Human equivalent | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
reconcile Reconciling contradictions across the knowledge base. | 13 | $3.31 | 90 min × researcher @ S$45/h | 19.5h |
Fixed costs
- TranscriptsTranscriptAPI$5.00/mo
- PostgresSupabase$25.00/mo
- DropletDigitalOcean$24.00/mo
- Creative renderingHiggsfield$0.00/mo
Not yet mapped to a human equivalent
These ran and cost money, but no human task is recorded for them, so they contribute nothing to either figure above: judge-supersession.
What this rests on
- Saved work is valued at internal cost, not the billable rate. Charging rates would double-count, because a client pays those either way.
- Capability is reported in hours, never in dollars. Nobody was doing that work before, so no cost was avoided — and pricing founder time invites an argument about the rate when the hours speak for themselves.
- Founder hours reclaimed is the actual runtime of long-form sources read and digested, not an estimate.
- Fixed costs are pro-rated at 30/30 of the monthly total.
- USD converted at a flat 1.35.
- Every figure traces to a run that actually happened. Nothing is projected from expected volume.