How the money works
Using AI costs real money to run, and most products hide that from you. I'd rather explain the whole thing like we're neighbors leaning on a fence. It takes nine little pictures.
That's the app. Have it — it's on me. The whole machine, parked in your driveway forever, in plain files on your own computer. Nobody can repossess it.
The free car sits in the driveway; the seat is what starts the engine. Your agent wakes up, a full tank lands on the 1st of every month, and the car keeps getting upgrades: new parts in the catalog, a better engine when one comes out. Nothing else to sign up for, ever.
A fuel gauge on the dash: at a quarter tank, the app tells you. Run it dry and nothing breaks; the car just parks itself until the 1st. There is no meter running.
If you ever run the tank dry month after month, say the word and your seat steps up to a bigger one — double the gas for well under twice the price. Heavy drivers are my favorite customers. It means the thing is working.
The gas in your tank is Claude — the same top-of-the-line AI the professionals use, and the one I run my own life and my own business on. Not a budget blend. That's what the seat pays for: premium in the tank, every fill-up. (And if my supplier ever jacks the price, the engine runs on any of the majors — I just switch stations.)
Already paying for your own AI subscription? Flip a switch in settings and run the car on your own supply: more privacy, the exact AI model you're used to working with, your own gas, same everything. (The a month stays; the seat is what lets you start the engine.)
Photos are like towing a trailer: they burn gas fast. Throw a few at it whenever you like; if you're dumping in a camera roll every day, you'll want the bigger tank.
Everyone on the team gets a tank, and the tanks share. Nobody's gas strands, nobody starves. A heavy month for one person borrows from a light month for another.
Stop paying and the car stays yours, parked in the garage until you re-subscribe. Your files are plain files on your own computer: readable forever, seat or no seat. Come back anytime; the mechanic catches you up same-day.