Most of it never leaves your own machine
The assistant thinks on your own machine, and thinking on your own machine costs nothing per use — however much of it there is. That is the whole reason the bill can be flat.
Your own AI. Your own material. One assistant, yours alone.
What does it cost to run?
One bill, once a year. There is no meter, no usage charge and no charge for using it more — and no bill at the end of a heavy month. The price you have already seen is the price for the year, and the strongest commercial models are paid for out of that same fee.
$9,995 the first year — everything included. $5,995 each year after. Before it, if you like, the Archive Assessment: $1,950, credited in full. The first year costs more because it contains the preparation — your archive prepared and loaded by hand under a written scope, and your assistant built on it — as well as the first year of the service; every year after is the service running.
Or add the Archive Assessment first — $1,950, credited in full
What you pay per question
Nothing
Ask it once a week or many times a day. It is the same bill either way, and the bill comes once a year.
The small jobs stay small
Tidying a long conversation, naming something, reading a page you sent it — none of that reaches for anything expensive. It is the commonest way these things quietly become costly, and it is handled.
When an outside model is worth it, it is paid for out of the same fee
Some of the big outside AI services — the ones you may already know by name — are better at the hardest tasks, and we will not pretend otherwise. Nothing goes to them unless you allow it — once, for a single question, or for a while, or always. When you do, we choose which service, and it is paid for out of the same fee. No extra bill, ever.
There is no bill to be surprised by
No meter, no overage, no true-up at the end of the year. If your household ever needed far more than we planned for, we would come and discuss it in writing rather than send you a larger invoice.
Why everyone else’s bill is unpredictable.
An assistant assembled from parts bills you for every word it reads and every word it writes. That sounds small until you notice how much of its work is invisible: it re-reads the whole conversation each time you add a line, it checks things on a schedule whether or not anything changed, and it quietly does small jobs in the background all day. None of that feels like usage. All of it is billed.
The models themselves are not priced alike, either. The strongest ones cost a great deal more to run than the perfectly capable ordinary ones, so anyone who reaches for the strongest one for everything — including the small background jobs that nobody would ever notice — pays that difference on all of it. The fix is to match the work to the model, and to keep the routine things on the least expensive thing that does them properly. That is real work, it has to be redone whenever anything changes, and it is exactly the sort of thing we exist to take off your desk.
So we do it, and none of it reaches you. Your assistant thinks in your own sealed, encrypted space, in our private cloud on Amazon Web Services, in the United States, and what that thinking costs to run is our side of the arrangement rather than a line on your invoice. The small jobs never reach for anything expensive. Scheduled checks look first and only wake the assistant proper if something has actually changed. And when a piece of work genuinely needs the strongest commercial models, it gets them: they are part of the service, chosen by us for each kind of work, reached inside our own cloud boundary, and paid for out of the same fee.
Assembled from parts
- A stack of subscriptions, each with its own monthly charge
- Plus usage, billed per word, on top of the subscriptions
- A heavy week costs more than a light one, and you find out afterwards
- Keeping the bill down is a standing chore, and it is yours
With us
- One bill, once a year — the price you have already seen, in writing before every year begins
- No usage charge of any kind — you are never metered
- A heavy week and a light week cost exactly the same
- Keeping it efficient is our chore, and you will never see it happen
The honest part: this is not magic, it is absorbed. We carry what the model time costs and the work of keeping that cost sensible, and we priced the year knowing we would. If your household or your practice turned out to need far more of the expensive kind of thinking than we expected, we would write to you about it rather than quietly send you a larger bill — because a larger bill is the one thing we have promised you will never get.
For the reader who wants the mechanics
You do not need any of this, and nothing below is ever asked of you. It is here because a few readers will want to know that the savings are real rather than rhetorical.
- The assistant’s own housekeeping — summarising a long conversation, naming things, reading a page you sent it — is handled by smaller, less expensive models rather than by the strongest one. It changes nothing about what you experience.
- Anything the assistant can reach for is described to it only when it actually reaches. Carrying descriptions of every tool into every exchange is the most common way an assistant becomes expensive without becoming better.
- Anything that runs on a schedule checks cheaply first. A mailbox that has nothing new in it does not wake the assistant at all; most scheduled checks end without anything thinking about anything.
- Long-running conversations are kept trimmed. Older exchanges are folded down into what mattered, so a conversation that has run for months does not re-read months of itself every time you add a line.
And what the fee covers
Everything on this list stops being your problem.
The flat fee is not only buying model time. It is buying the dozen small jobs, done every day without being asked, that a private assistant otherwise hands to you.
The job
Today, it is yours
Once your assistant is running
Finding the answer in your own recordsThe clause, the number, the date you agreed
You open four folders and an old mail account, and an afternoon goes on a question you already answered once.
You ask in plain words and your own clause comes back, quoted, with the signed file it sits in.
The reading you have not doneThe forty-page document that arrived this morning
It sits in the pile until it matters, and then you read it at the worst possible moment.
Forty pages in, a two-minute version out: the numbers, the change since last time, the part that affects you.
The replies you oweThe ones that need context you have to go and find first
You write them from scratch, late at night, or you do not write them at all.
Drafted in your words, with the context each one needs. You read them instead of writing them — and nothing goes out without your yes.
What everyone forgotRenewals, follow-ups, the thing promised on a call three weeks ago
You remember it the week after it lapsed.
It raises them before they are late, in both directions.
Preparing the archiveYears of letters, invoices, records, the folder nobody organised
Nobody offers this. You sort it yourself, or it never happens.
We prepare and load it by hand, to a written scope you hold first, and your assistant is built on it before you ever sign in.
Choosing the AI, and paying for itWhich model, for which job, at what price
You pick, you switch, you pay each one, and you watch your own meter.
The strongest commercial models are part of the service — chosen by us for each kind of work, and paid for out of the same fee. No meter, no extra bill.
Keeping it runningUpdates, backups, the thing that broke overnight
Yours, on a Sunday, reading release notes.
Ours. Updates arrive as they are ready, backups run continuously and encrypted, and restoring them is our job.
Keeping it privateThe part everyone promises and few will write down
A policy you are asked to trust.
Your own sealed, encrypted space — never pooled, never shared, never used to train anyone else’s model — and a written scope before anything is loaded.
The whole of it
What carrying it yourself actually costs
Evenings, weekends, and the answers you never did reconstruct.
One bill, once a year. Nothing on this list is charged separately.
Or add the Archive Assessment first — $1,950, credited in full
Support is in writing, with a reply within one business day. Nothing on this list is bought separately, and all of it is delivered under a written scope.
Answers before you order
Where does my material live?
In your own encrypted space, in our private cloud on Amazon Web Services, in the United States. Every record in it is scoped to you — your files, your messages, what your assistant remembers of them — encrypted at rest, encrypted whenever it moves, and there is no address on the open internet where your archive can be asked for. Where it runs, in full →
Is my material used to train anyone else's AI?
No. Never pooled, never shared, never used to train anyone else's model. When your assistant thinks, the models see only the minimum a given piece of work needs; what they see is not used to train them and is not shared with the companies that make them. Ask us to delete something and you get written confirmation that it is gone.
What does it cost?
The price is one sentence on the first year's own page: the first year, then each year after, then the Archive Assessment, credited in full. One bill a year: no start fee, no usage charge, no charge for using it more, no per-person charge. One home under one roof, or one practice in one office, is the first year — however many of you there are. Several homes, several offices, or staff spread across sites: by conversation, scoped in writing. Not sure which you are? Order the first year; if it needs more, our letter says so before anything is final.
Why does the first year cost more?
Because it contains the preparation — your archive prepared and loaded by hand under a written scope, and your assistant built on it — as well as the first year of the service. Every year after is the service running.
What do I buy first?
The first year, on its own page. If you like, add the Archive Assessment before it — a written scope of your material and a working demonstration built on a sample of it, delivered work you keep, credited in full. It is chapter one of the first year, done first. There is nothing to be accepted into and nothing to wait for.
What happens after I order?
You order the first year and pay at checkout. Within days we write back with one of two letters: a decline, with every dollar returned, or our confirmation, which sets down the year, the anniversary date and the renewal figure. Until that confirmation you may withdraw in writing and we return every dollar; from it the year is final — the date is not: if the date it names will not do, say so by return and we find one that does. Then you receive the written scope, we prepare and load your archive to it by hand, and your assistant is ready on the date in the letter.
Who does the work of loading my archive?
We do, by hand, to the written scope you hold first. That is what the first year's preparation is: your records prepared and loaded into a sealed, encrypted space of your own, and your assistant built on them, so it begins already knowing your history rather than starting as a stranger.
What can it do without asking me?
It reads what you authorise and drafts on its own. It sends nothing, posts nothing and buys nothing without your yes. It never moves money and never signs anything. In practice: no email goes out, no calendar is changed and nothing is deleted until you say so, one thing at a time — and the last two are not settings you can turn on. The whole table, row by row →
What will it not do?
It can be wrong, which is why every answer shows the file it came from — you can check it in one tap. It is not a doctor and it is not a lawyer. It never moves money and never signs anything, and neither of those is a setting you can turn on. And it is only as good as the material you hand us, which is why the written scope comes before the loading.
Will I get an extra bill for the big AI models?
No. The strongest commercial models are part of the service — chosen by us for each kind of work, reached inside our own cloud boundary, and paid for out of the same fee. There is no meter and no extra bill.
What happens at the anniversary, and if I stop?
Your year runs from the date in our letter, and that day is the anniversary. Buying the first year is the sign-up; there is no second form. Thirty days before each anniversary we write with the figure and the direct link to renew; nothing renews unless you use it. Stop in writing at any time, effective at the end of the paid year; a year already begun is final, and billing ends with the paid year. You keep your own material — you always held the originals, and you can ask for a complete copy at any time — the written scopes, the written record of what was loaded, and, if you took it, the Assessment's scope and demonstration.
Why not use one of the AI apps?
Because an app you rent is a room in a building full of other tenants: it knows nothing about you that you have not pasted into it that morning, and the subscription never ends. This one is built on your own archive, prepared and loaded by hand, in a sealed space of your own — one assistant, yours alone, never pooled — and it answers from your own records, with the file the answer came from. The side-by-side →
One bill, once a year
No meter, at either address.
Both addresses are flat, and both are the same price. What you have already seen is what it costs.
The first year
$9,995
Everything included. $5,995 each year after.
Or add the Archive Assessment first — $1,950, credited in full
The first year costs more because it contains the preparation — your archive prepared and loaded by hand under a written scope, and your assistant built on it — as well as the first year of the service; every year after is the service running. You order and pay at checkout; we write back within days — a decline returns every dollar, and until our letter confirms the year you may withdraw in writing. From that letter the year is final, and your assistant is ready on the date the letter names.
We answer in writing, within one business day — and if we cannot serve you well we say so before our letter confirms a year. Prefer to write to us first?