Ask. Watch it route. Read the receipt.
This is a real Qua workspace — a small, fictional one belonging to a company called Meridian. Your question runs through the same Answer Waterfall the product uses, settles at the cheapest tier that can answer it, and prints the same receipt. Nothing here is staged.
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.