Ask once. See the route, source, and cost.
Ask inside Meridian, a fictional company workspace. Qua checks saved and company knowledge before using a paid model, then shows exactly what happened.
Ask something a real workspace would know. This one belongs to a fictional company called Meridian.
A sandboxed demo workspace · answers come from fictional Meridian documents, never from anyone’s real data · limited turns per visitor so the demo stays available.
Three things the receipt tells you.
Where it was answered
Tiers 05 · Personal Knowledge and 04 · Enterprise Search are the zero-cost tiers — they answer from your own knowledge. When your question lands there, nothing left the perimeter, and the cost line reads $0 or ~$0.
What it cost
Every answer is priced against what the same task would have cost on a premium model. That difference is the saving, and it is arithmetic you can check — not a claim.
What it didn’t do
Tier 01 · Pro Models stays locked here. Escalating to a premium model is a decision a person approves, and the approval is recorded on the receipt.
The cheapest safe tier, every time.
lower AI spend versus uncontrolled use. Most questions never need a premium model; the waterfall’s job is to find that out before you pay for one.
This is a demo workspace. Yours would be your work.
Same waterfall, same receipts — pointed at your own knowledge, under your own rules.