Grok
xAI
xAI's conversational AI assistant, built into X and available standalone.
$30/mo
Grok Bot's scheduled jobs run on this same subscription — no separate charge.
What the stack actually costs
Monthly spend, by product
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Total, as selected
$410/mo
AI tools · subscriptions
$330/mo subtotal
ChatGPT
OpenAI
OpenAI's general-purpose AI assistant and chat interface.
$200/mo
Codex runs on this same subscription — no separate charge.
Claude
Anthropic
Anthropic's AI assistant, used here for drafting, review, and Claude Code.
$100/mo
Claude Code (this session) runs on the same subscription's usage pool — no separate charge.
Perplexity
Perplexity AI
An AI answer engine that cites sources for every claim.
$0/mo
Gemini
Google's AI assistant, built into Workspace and Google's own apps.
$0/mo
Folded into the Workspace seat above as of 2025 — no separate Gemini add-on charge.
Build, infra & publish
$20/mo subtotal
GitHub
GitHub
One product, two map nodes: GitHub Code (repos) and GitHub Content (playbooks / docs).
$0/mo
Cursor
Anysphere
An AI-native code editor built on VS Code.
$0/mo
VS Code
Microsoft
Microsoft's free, extensible code editor — the base most AI coding tools build on.
$0/mo
Netlify
Netlify
Builds and hosts this site straight from GitHub on every push to main.
$20/mo
starting, 3,000 credits/mo
GoDaddy
GoDaddy
Domain registrar — owns the name people type to reach the site.
$0/mo
Cloudflare
Cloudflare
DNS, CDN, and bot protection in front of a website.
$0/mo
Supabase
Supabase
Hosted Postgres with built-in auth and row-level security.
$0/mo
Hugging Face
Hugging Face
Model, paper, and GGUF hub. Grok Bot reaches it over MCP.
$0/mo
Composio
Composio
A connector layer that gives AI models access to hundreds of SaaS tools.
$0/mo
LM Studio
LM Studio
Runs open-weight AI models directly on your own computer.
$0/mo
Consumer-facing apps & live data
$60/mo subtotal
Google Workspace (work)
Google's business suite — Gmail, Calendar, and Drive under one subscription.
$14/mo
annual commitment; $16.80/mo flexible
One seat covers Gmail, Calendar, and Drive together — they aren't billed separately.
Todoist
Doist
Task manager — the staging inbox this practice runs its mornings through.
$5/mo
annual; $7/mo monthly
Calendly
Calendly
Public scheduling links that check availability against a real calendar.
$0/mo
Trip Waffle
TripWaffle
Travel itineraries from forwarded booking emails — remote MCP, free, no upsell.
$0/mo
no credit card, no upsell
Dex CRM
Dex
A personal CRM for keeping track of relationships, not sales pipelines.
$12/mo
annual; $20/mo monthly
Pulls context from LinkedIn, iMessage, WhatsApp, and Gmail below rather than billing for each separately.
Microsoft
Professional network and public work history for a contact.
$0/mo
iMessage
Apple
Apple's built-in messaging app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
$0/mo
built into iOS and macOS
Wispr Flow
Wispr
Voice dictation that types polished text into whatever app is focused.
$0/mo
Speechify
Speechify
Text-to-speech that reads documents aloud in a natural voice.
$29/mo
$11.58/mo billed annually
Plaud
Plaud
A wearable AI recorder that transcribes conversations automatically.
$0/mo
300 min/mo
Inkbox
Inkbox
Gives an AI agent its own identity — email, phone number, and messaging.
$0/mo
Meta
Meta's messaging app — the default texting app across most of the world.
$0/mo
core messaging and calling
Resend
Resend
Transactional email for product sites. Considering, not engaged on this map.
$0/mo
3,000 emails/mo, 100/day cap
Figures marked couldn't be confirmed directly against the vendor's own pricing page during this check — click through and verify before treating them as exact. Everything else was read straight from the vendor's published pricing page.