The keys stay yours
Whose account is it, really
There is a quiet question underneath every AI project that decides how much leverage you keep: whose accounts is this built on. If the consultant owns the logins, the model keys, and the automation platform, then what you actually bought was a dependency. The day you part ways, it all leaves with them.
We build the other way. Every automation runs on your accounts and your keys. Your email, your model account, your data. We are a set of hands with a login you granted and can revoke.
Why token costs pass through
The same principle covers what the AI costs to run. The model charges by usage, and that charge lands on your account directly, at cost, with no markup from us. You can see exactly what the machine spent, and you would keep paying that same amount whether we were involved or not.
This is not generosity. It is what keeps the relationship honest. We get paid to build and to watch, not to sit on top of your metering.
What that protects
Building on your keys protects the things that matter if the relationship ever ends:
- The automations keep running, because they were never on our infrastructure
- Your data was always in your accounts, not exported into ours
- You can hand the whole setup to someone else, or take it in-house, without a migration
- You never wonder what the model actually cost
The test
Ask any provider one question before you sign: if we stop working together tomorrow, what breaks. If the honest answer is everything, you are renting. It should be nothing. More on how this works on the about page.
The audit answers this for your business
Two weeks, $2,500 flat ($1,000 for the first three clients), and you get the map of your own automatable work with dollars on it.