Briefing Desk
Pricing

Pay per brief. Nothing recurring.

Briefing Desk draws the shared Ounie credit wallet — the same one every Ounie product uses. There is no plan, no seat count and no monthly minimum, and because nothing here runs on a schedule, nothing can charge you while you are not looking.

With an Ounie account
12 credits
$0.12 a brief
  • Reads up to 20 pages published inside your window
  • Every item carries a source index that resolves to a real page
  • Rank it through up to five of your Ounie brains — retrieval is never metered
  • Re-read, list and export forever at no cost
  • Nothing published in the window? Refunded, pool-exact
Start with your Ounie account
Keyless, for agents
~$0.144
USDC on Base · x402
  • No account, no key, no signup — one HTTP call
  • 1.2× the credit price, quoted in the 402 response itself
  • Paste your own text as the ranking lens instead of a brain
  • Verified, then run, then settled — a thin brief never settles
  • Bad input is refused with a 4xx before you are asked to sign
Read the x402 docs

Where 12 credits comes from

One brief is a live search across your window, a read of every page it returns, and one synthesis pass. The search is the expensive half and it is the variable half: reading twenty pages costs materially more than reading five, and the price is flat either way.

What happensCost to usBilled
Search the window and read the pages~$0.005–0.010—
One synthesis pass over what was read$0.00045—
One finished brief≈ $0.010512 credits
Re-reading it, in any format$0Free
Reading your brains as the lens$0Free
A window with nothing in itpaid anywayRefunded

We publish the cost basis because the margin is the argument: it funds the search budget, the citation guard that throws work away, and the refunds on every run that comes back empty.

Unused reserves come back

A brief reserves its price up front and settles on what was actually produced. Any difference is refunded pool-exact — to the same credit pools it came from, in reverse drain order — so an included monthly credit never quietly becomes a purchased one.

Thin is a real answer

If nothing was published on your topic in the window, or nothing in what came back anchored to a citable source, you get an honest empty answer and your credits back. On the keyless rail there is no refund possible, so the same checks run before any payment settles.

Nothing recurring, by design

No schedules, no subscriptions, no alerts, no stored watchlists. One call, one brief. If you want a brief every morning, call the API every morning — the schedule stays yours, and so does the ability to stop it.

FAQ

The questions we get first.

Can I schedule a daily brief?
No, and that is deliberate. Briefing Desk is one call, one brief: there are no schedules, no subscriptions, no alerts and no stored watchlists that fire. If you want a brief every morning, call the endpoint every morning — from cron, from your agent's own loop, from whatever already wakes up in your stack. Keeping the schedule on your side means nothing here can bill you while you are not looking, and it means the keyless USDC rail behaves exactly like the account rail, which it could not do if there were a subscription to attach to.
Where do the facts come from?
From pages published inside the window you asked for, which the app searches and reads at the moment you call it — up to 20of them. Nothing comes from the model's own memory: it is handed a numbered list of those pages and can only answer with an index into it. It never writes a URL, so it cannot invent one.
What happens if an item cites a source that does not exist?
The item is deleted. Every index is re-checked in code against the pages actually fetched, and one that points at nothing is dropped rather than quietly reassigned to a plausible source — reassigning it would manufacture a citation. If nothing survives, there is no brief and you are not charged.
What does it cost?
12 Ounie credits (12¢) per brief, drawn from the shared wallet you already use across Ounie. Reading, listing and exporting a brief you have already paid for is free forever. Running the same topic again is a new brief and bills again, because the news moved and the work is real. Agents with no account can pay per call in USDC on Base at 1.2× that price, quoted in the 402 response itself.
When am I not charged?
When nothing was published on your topic inside the window, when the search provider is unreachable, and when the sources came back but no item anchored to a real one. All three return an honest “thin” response and refund pool-exact. On the keyless rail there is no refund possible — a settlement is final on chain — so the same checks run BEFORE any payment is settled, and a request we can already tell is unanswerable is refused with a 4xx before you are ever asked to sign.
What does connecting an Ounie brain actually do?
It becomes the lens. The same sources come back, but the ones touching what you already care about rise to the top and get framed for you. Your brain's text is handed to the model in a block labelled as ranking material and it cannot carry a citation, because a citation is an index into the fetched pages and your brain is not one of them. So a brain can change the order and the emphasis of a brief; it can never put an unsourced claim into one. Blend up to 5 brains, or use none — the lens is optional.
How is this different from Ounie's Auto-Research?
Auto-Research is a subscription-shaped feature inside the Ounie dashboard: it runs on a schedule and feeds new sources into a brain over time. Briefing Desk is the one-call reframe of the same idea — it hands you a finished brief in a single request and puts nothing into your brain. Different shape, different rail, and they compose: research with one, read with the other.
Is my data used to train anything?
No. Your brains stay on ounie.com and are read per request through your own session or your own key; nothing is copied out of them. The app stores the briefs it produced so you can re-read them for free, and nothing trains a model.

Credits are bought on ounie.com

One wallet, every Ounie app. Nothing is charged here.

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