EVERY FLAME ACCOUNTED FOR
When a released draft flies the supply line, the Forge writes down exactly what it cost to make — per client, down to the individual render. The ledger is why this site shows you no prices yet: we refuse to invent a number we haven't measured.
AI COSTS ARE A FOG, SO PRICES ARE A GUESS
Most AI products can't tell you what one unit of their output costs to produce. Tokens here, renders there, retries nobody counted — so pricing gets set by looking at competitors, and margins are discovered later, sometimes as a surprise. Downstream, the customer inherits the fog: a bill that can't be explained line by line.
ATTRIBUTION AT THE MOMENT OF SPEND
Every generation is recorded against the client that asked for it, at the moment the spend happens — research calls, the strike itself, each individual render of a plate. Cost used to be computed and thrown away; now it accumulates into a ledger that can answer "what did this month's content actually cost, per client, per format?" from records rather than estimates.
one ledger line — written when the spend happens, not reconstructed later:
{ client: "…", item: "ci_8f3a…", stage: "render", cost_units: measured }
pricing stays UNSET until enough of these lines exist to price from evidenceWHAT HONEST METERS ARE WORTH
Every line traces to work
When pricing arrives, an invoice will decompose into recorded generations — not into "platform fee" hand-waving. You'll be able to audit what you're paying for.
No cross-subsidy surprises
Per-client attribution means one heavy client can't silently make every other client's price wrong. The economics are visible before they're promised.
Unset pricing is a feature
This site shows no prices because none have been measured into existence yet. A vendor willing to say "we don't know yet" is a vendor whose eventual number means something.
A number you didn't measure is a story. The ledger exists so that when Altineris finally states a price, it will be the reading of a meter — and the meter will have been running the whole time.
WHY THE ENGINE COUNTS ITS OWN FIRE