Pricing

Spawn once. Rent to keep the expert your AI cites living.

Compiling an expert is a one-time setup fee — you pay to build it once. Keeping it current, so your own AI can query it over a scoped connection, is a monthly rent per living expert. Supervised execution is an optional add-on, not the point. Pricing finalizes after the first metered cycles — until we've logged the real cost of keeping an expert fresh, the rent is framed honestly, never quoted as a locked number.

Spawn

from $1,500

one-time setup fee

Pay once to compile the expert. Concierge-anchored.

  • The research engine reads the market and compiles the expert
  • You approve the corpus and the cost before any spend
  • A gap report and the compiled expert, delivered
  • The wizard shows a live estimate off your dials — not a quote
Spawn an expert

Rent

priced after metered cycles

monthly, per living expert

A living expert your own AI queries — kept current on a schedule.

  • Plug it into Claude, Cursor, or any agent over a scoped connection
  • Answers with convergence, provenance, and contested positions
  • Re-reads its field on a schedule and shows you what moved
  • The monthly rate finalizes once we've metered the first real cycles
Spawn one first

Supervised execution

optional add-on

in preview · waitlisted

Optional: let the expert draft work in a bounded area.

  • A Meta ad account first — the expert plans from its own playbook
  • Every action lands paused — you approve the exact spend, never it
  • A record of every action, resolvable to receipts
  • An add-on, not the point — join the waitlist

Questions

Why isn't the monthly rent a fixed number yet?
Because we won't quote a price we haven't measured. Keeping an expert current means re-reading its market and re-merging what agrees; we finalize rent only after logging the real cost of the first cycles.
Is the compile a subscription?
No. Spawn is a one-time setup fee — you pay to compile the expert once. Rent is the separate monthly fee to keep it living. The compile is never the recurring charge.
What does the estimate in the wizard mean?
It's a live estimate priced off your dials — depth, recency, operator bar. It is labeled an estimate, not a quote, everywhere it appears, and you approve the corpus and cost before any spend.
Does BrainDrive run my business for me?
No — and that's the point. BrainDrive is a knowledge layer: the domain expert your own AI cites. It tells you what independent operators converge on, with a source behind every claim. Supervised execution is an optional add-on in preview, and even then every action pauses for your approval — never autonomous.