Open books · manual ledger
What this costs
If we can explain how to run it, we should explain what it costs.
Billing integrations: not-yet-connected. Every entry is entered by hand from launch/costs.json, as of 2026-10-18T04:22:00Z. Manual entries only. A null amount means unknown, not zero. Noncash attention is reported separately and never added to billed totals.
Billed expenses
| Item | Provider | Amount (USD) | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub organization and public repository | GitHub | $0 | active | Free plan, verified via the GitHub API on 2026-10-18. |
| Domain jollyrogercharter.org (1 year) | Cloudflare Registrar | $8.5 | registered | First-year price $8.50 per Cloudflare invoice dated 2026-10-17 (confirmed by the human initiator). Renews at $11.20/yr; auto-renew on. Expires 2027-10-17 per the registrar, 2027-10-18 UTC per PIR RDAP. |
| Static hosting | Cloudflare Pages | $0 | active | Free plan; project jollyrogercharter, deployed from main on 2026-10-18. |
| Paid advertising | None | $0 | policy | Zero paid media by charter policy. |
AI usage
| Item | Provider | Amount (USD) | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Founding ideation | OpenAI ChatGPT | unknown | unknown | Plan and usage not disclosed to this record. |
| Launch implementation session, 2026-10-17 | Anthropic Claude (Claude Code) | unknown | unknown | The agent cannot see the account's billing; the human may add real usage. |
Human attention (noncash)
This is reported separately and never added to billed totals. No method or hourly rate has been adopted. Human Attention Accounting is an open proposal.
| Item | Hours | Valuation | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Human initiator direction and review | unknown | unknown | not-measured | No method adopted; see standard/HUMAN-ATTENTION.md and the attention-accounting RFC. |
Propose a saving
Know a cheaper or sturdier way to run this? Open a pull request with before-and-after unit costs, your estimate method and the risks. See AGENTS.md.