{ "tariff": "signal-bureau-unit-tariff", "schema_version": 2, "effective": "2026-07-25", "currency": "USD", "guarantee": "If the desk isn't earning its place, say so and we refund the month you're in, in full — no forms, no retention call, no reason required. Coverage stops when you say stop, and we never bill a month forward that you didn't want. It covers every plan and metered usage alike, and the Pilot is refundable in full for its whole 30 days.", "doctrine": "The daily brief, the record, the calibration table, and every correction are free for anyone. Charges meter work done on your behalf.", "units": [ { "unit": "watch", "name": "Watch", "definition": "A saved question, re-read from the record on a schedule. Each reading says per condition whether it is measured, with sources, or cannot be measured yet. History kept from day one. Pull, not push. Reads included.", "price": 20, "per": "unit/month", "status": "opening rate", "how_to_buy": "For an agent: (1) GET /api/v1/watches/standard (MCP list_standard_watches) lists the standard Watches and these terms — free, no key. (2) POST /api/v1/watches/unfurl (MCP unfurl_watch) with {\"base\", \"coordinates\"} configures a Watch and runs it once, unsaved — free, no key, as often as the published burst limit allows. (3) POST /api/keys self-issues a key — free, instant, no card; give a contact email. (4) POST /api/v1/watches (MCP save_watch) with the same body and your key saves it into a paid slot, at $20 a month per saved Watch. With no paid slot it answers 402 payment-required and charges nothing; an answer of unavailable or cannot-measure also means nothing was saved or charged, so retry. The 402 carries a Stripe checkout for one Saved Watch, tied to that key: pay there, save again, and it goes through. If its checkout.state is not-set-up, nothing can be bought for that key yet, and the 402 says what is missing. (5) To buy topic Watches for an account: get_quote if you want the basket priced first, then create_order with item 'watch' and a `topics` line naming each Watch — a Watch is bought by name, not by count, and each topic comes back with its own checkout link (a topic nobody watches yet is priced in minutes when the order carries your key; poll get_order). dryRun:true rehearses the order and bills nothing. Whoever holds the payment card completes Stripe's hosted checkout; card details never reach us. A topic Watch bought this way is a save slot only on a key the desk has tied to your account; it is not one on a self-issued key, so use the 402's checkout for that. If save_watch still answers payment-required after you paid, say so with send_feedback (name your key hint) or by email to lead@evfm.co. Editing a saved Watch makes a new version at no extra charge; retire_watch frees its slot and keeps its record. For a person: \"Start a Watch\" at /watch/ sends the desk what you want kept current; sending it charges nothing, and the desk sets the Watch up and replies. For everyone: billing starts at checkout; stop any time and no month is billed forward. Refundable in full, any time — we return the month you're in. Email us and we refund the month in full. A person handles it; it is not automatic. A Watch is informational only, not advice.", "opening_offer": { "id": "opening-watches", "effective": "2026-10-08", "slots": 5, "per": "verified-email", "endsOn": "2026-12-31", "closesAt": "2027-01-01T00:00:00Z", "cardRequired": false, "atEnd": "pause", "priceAfter": { "usd": 20, "per": "saved Watch per month", "source": "units[watch].price" }, "headline": "Your first five Watches are on us while we open the doors.", "says": "Save up to 5 Watches at no charge through December 31, 2026, one allowance per verified email address. No card is needed to start. After that a Watch is $20 a month, and only if you choose to keep it.", "howToClaim": "Self-issue a key (POST /api/keys, free, instant), then confirm an email address for it: POST /api/keys/verify with {\"email\"} and your key, and press the button in the email we send. Your next saves go into the opening slots.", "atEndSays": "When the offer closes at the end of December 31, 2026 (UTC), Watches saved under it pause: they stop being recalled, every version and delivery is kept, and nothing is charged. Buying a slot at $20 a month, or retiring another Watch, resumes one.", "guarantee": "Refundable in full, any time — we return the month you're in." } }, { "unit": "read", "name": "Read", "definition": "One grounded answer produced on demand; the response states whether it was served or abstained, and its verification state.", "price": 0.25, "per": "unit", "free_daily_allowance": 25, "free_daily_allowance_note": "With no key at all, the Answer Engine answers 25 questions a day per network address, resetting at midnight UTC. A keyless call is metered on its network address only — it carries nothing else, and we infer nothing else: no cookie, no fingerprint. Callers behind one shared address (a cloud, an office, an agent platform) share that meter. Every keyless answer states how many remain and when the meter resets; when they are used, the refusal leads with the one call that ends the wait — POST /api/keys, free, instant, no human, no card — and the key carries 25 answers for the life of the key on a meter that is yours alone (free_key_allowance). Discovery, the record, permalinks, signals and feedback stay keyless with no allowance to count against.", "free_key_allowance": { "asks": 25, "per": "key", "resets": "never", "effective": "2026-09-05", "note": "25 grounded answers, free, for the life of the key — enough to judge the desk on your own topic — and then the allowance ends. They do not reset. After them each Read is metered at the Read rate above on a billing arrangement you open (MCP create_order, item 'api', or feedback naming your key); nothing is charged without one, and a used-up allowance is answered with that next step, never a dead end.", "daily_ceiling": 50, "daily_ceiling_note": "A per-day ceiling of 50 on a free key is runaway-loop protection, not the allowance — you meet the allowance first.", "before": { "per_day": 25, "resets": "midnight UTC", "note": "Keys issued before 2026-09-05 were promised 25 a day and keep exactly that for as long as they live — forward-only; the issuance date on the key record decides." } }, "free_key_how": "POST /api/keys — self-serve, no human in the loop, no card.", "balance": { "min_usd": 5, "max_usd": 500, "per": "key", "drawn_at": "read", "expires": "never", "daily_draw_ceiling_usd": 25, "daily_draw_ceiling_note": "A key draws at most $25 from its balance per UTC day (divide by the Read rate above for how many that is), and the counter clears at midnight UTC. This is runaway-loop and stolen-key protection, not a limit on what you bought and not a claim on your money: your balance is untouched by it, it never expires, and what the ceiling holds back is simply drawn tomorrow. Reads on the free allowance and Reads on a monthly arrangement are unaffected. If your desk genuinely works faster than this, ask and it is raised on your account.", "order": "MCP create_order, item 'balance', with `amount` in USD (dryRun rehearses it)", "note": "Top a key up once, any amount from $5 to $500, and every Read past the free allowance draws from it at the Read rate above — the published rate, not a discounted one. It never expires, the receipt on every Read shows what remains, and get_account states the balance any time. This is not a prepaid pack: a pack is a discounted bundle sized to your guess about how much you will use, and we do not sell one. A balance is this meter funded in advance, at list.", "refundable": "Unused balance is returned in full, any time you ask, for any reason — it is your money until a Read draws it, and it never expires.", "refund_path": "Ask the desk — one email is the whole process. Name the key's hint; the unused balance is returned in full to the card that funded it.", "guarantee": "If the desk isn't earning its place, say so and we refund the month you're in, in full — no forms, no retention call, no reason required. Coverage stops when you say stop, and we never bill a month forward that you didn't want. It covers every plan and metered usage alike, and the Pilot is refundable in full for its whole 30 days.", "why": "One card form, once, instead of one per purchase — and one interchange fee across many Reads instead of one fee per Read, which is what makes a flat $0.25 Read honest to sell at all." }, "identical_ask": { "window_minutes": 10, "rule": "An identical question repeated within 10 minutes against an unchanged record is one Read.", "same_question": "the same words, ignoring letter case, runs of whitespace and trailing ?, ! or .", "same_meter": [ "your key", "with no key, your network address" ], "note": "Repeat the same question on the same key inside 10 minutes and you are served the answer already produced — labeled servedFrom \"recent-identical-ask\" — with no second Read receipted and no free ask spent. With no key, the same holds on the meter a keyless ask rides — your network address: the repeat takes none of today's keyless answers. Scoped to your own meter: one key, or one address, is never served, or spared a charge, from another's answers. \"The same question\" means the same words, ignoring letter case, runs of whitespace and trailing \"?\", \"!\" or \".\" — a reworded question is a new question. If the record moved underneath the answer, the question is answered fresh and metered as new work, which is the work you are paying for. Pass {\"fresh\": true} to force new work." }, "status": "opening rate", "how_to_buy": "Included in every plan today; metered purchase is live on meter accounts — an identified key, each Read receipted at this flat rate." } ], "plans": "Published plans bundle these units with service attached: /pricing", "revision_policy": "Rates change forward-only with 30 days' published notice, and every past revision is kept on our record.", "tiers": { "effective": "2026-08-08", "revised": "2026-10-06", "doctrine": "Discovery is keyless, and so are the first 25 questions a day per network address — enough to see what the desk does before anyone asks who you are. Past them, work rides a key: self-issued, one free call, no card. Every key is tracked against a tier. A key is a recognition credential — opt-in and declared, never inferred; with no key, the network address is the only thing metered.", "tiers": [ { "id": "keyless-discovery", "auth": "none", "covers": "The door and the record: tariff, orient/serverInfo, llms.txt, permalinks, /api/recent, calibration, signal-feed reads (500/day), quotes (~10/day) and feedback (20/day) — plus the Answer Engine on a small daily keyless allowance.", "answer_engine_per_day": 25, "answer_engine_metered_on": "network address — the only thing a keyless call carries; no cookie, no fingerprint", "answer_engine_resets": "midnight UTC", "note": "25 questions a day per network address with no key, shared by everyone behind that address. Every keyless answer says how many remain and when they reset; when they are used, the refusal leads with the one free call that gives you a meter of your own (POST /api/keys) and the exact retry — never a dead end." }, { "id": "free-keyed", "auth": "self-issued key (POST /api/keys — instant, free, no card)", "covers": "Everything keyless-discovery covers, plus the Answer Engine on your own meter.", "answer_engine_allowance": { "asks": 25, "per": "key", "resets": "never", "daily_ceiling": 50 }, "answer_engine_per_day": "no daily meter — 25 asks for the life of the key (answer_engine_allowance); the per-day ceiling of 50 is runaway-loop protection, not the allowance", "note": "Your meter is yours alone — never shared with your cloud, office, or platform neighbors. Keys issued before 2026-09-05 keep the 25-a-day meter they were promised." }, { "id": "metered", "auth": "identified key + desk-activated billing (an 'api' order)", "covers": "Unlimited-shape usage billed per unit at the published tariff; Watches deliverable to the key.", "answer_engine_per_day": "your account's daily cap (runaway-loop protection, raisable by the desk)", "read_price": 0.25, "note": "Statement live any time via get_account; the month you are in is refundable in full, any time, for any reason." } ] }, "deskBundles": { "effective": "2026-08-08", "unit": "watch", "perTopicMonthly": 20, "note": "A desk bundle is the desk's labeled watched-topic set at the published Watch rate — count honest, merges shown, nothing preset beyond the label. Delivery: get_desk_feed (keyed). Any desk not listed prices identically via get_quote. The month you are in is refundable in full, any time, for any reason.", "bundles": [ { "desk": "ud-articles", "label": "UndrDog desk", "topics": 6, "monthly": 120, "arithmetic": "6 topics x $20/topic/month" }, { "desk": "jedi-knowledge", "label": "Jedi desk", "topics": 5, "monthly": 100, "arithmetic": "5 topics x $20/topic/month" }, { "desk": "ecomm-news", "label": "E-commerce desk", "topics": 5, "monthly": 100, "arithmetic": "5 topics x $20/topic/month" } ] } }