Do I ever pay monthly?
Never. Braido has no plans and no renewals — you purchase power tokens when you wish, and runs draw them from your balance. The ledger records each movement permanently.
How is a run's cost worked out?
Model usage and connector activity convert into whole power tokens. The run's debit is entered in an append-only ledger together with your balance after it, so cost is never an estimate.
What if the braid breaks mid-run?
Tokens are reserved before the loom starts and the reserve is released if the run fails. Incomplete work is never billed.
Whose models does the loom use?
Yours, if you like: bring keys for Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, xAI or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint and set the model thread by thread. Keys are AES-encrypted at rest.
Can I run a braid from my own systems?
Yes — every crew is callable over a REST API with bearer keys. Keys are stored hashed, shown in full only once, and can be revoked instantly.
Must I design patterns from scratch?
No. The shelf holds 330+ finished patterns — editorial desks, research digests, monitors, triage flows. Clone one and adjust the threads to your material.