Cost in Counts, and Where It Runs
Nobody knows what the agents cost, or why.
How it works
Cost per person and service, from counts only; a person's work on their own subscription seat, shared light work on the API.
Where we use it
GSSF runs personal agents on seats and unattended services on the API; spending per person is tracked in counts (Building Agentic Organizations, chapter 16).
Status: Running for where it runs; Early for cost in counts · Origin: Our own practice, as described in our books
Sources
- Mike Lee, Building Agentic Organizations: How to Build an Organization of People and Agents (GSSF Press, 2026), chapter 16, “Observability, Privacy, and Cost”, section 4
- Mike Lee, Building AI Agents: From Chatbots to Co-Workers (GSSF Press, 2026), chapter 2, “Foundations of Agentic AI”
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