Real photo · Ryan, 2026The Token Fund · Fuel the machine
I run outof tokensevery half a week.
Every article, filing summary, map, timeline, and defendant profile on this site is built with AI tokens. The subscriptions, $463 a month for Claude Max 20x, ChatGPT Pro 20x, and X Premium Plus, are on me. What runs dry is the included usage, usually by the middle of the week. Past that, the only lane either company sells is usage credits, billed by the token at published rates. Your fuel buys those credits. That is the whole ask: $1,700 a month in overage credits keeps the machine running all week.
- $463Subscriptions, paid by me
- $1,700The ask, overage a month
- 228Articles, last 30 days
Chapter one · The tank
You buy the overage. I do the work.
Put in enough and I do some of it for you.
The meter reads the money as it lands, every twenty seconds, in front of you. One tap picks the amount. Stripe takes the card. No account, no app, no middleman. Monthly stops whenever you say.
September's overage tank · live
$0 of $1,700
Nobody yet this month. The first name goes on the wall.
22 days left in September. 3 reading right now.
0% of September's overage is covered.Chapter two · What your fuel does
$5 is 13,000 words. $50 is about 2.5 hours.
Not a metaphor.
Anthropic publishes the price of every token. The mix of tokens is measured off my own machine. Every bar is that arithmetic, and it is labeled an estimate because a tokens-per-article meter does not exist yet.
Fact · Anthropic rate cardFact · measured on my MacEstimateThe arithmetic, line by line$5
A spark
13,000 wordsAbout 15 minutes.
About 15 minutes.
$10
A charge
27,000 wordsAbout 30 minutes.
About 30 minutes.
$25
A research run
67,000 wordsAbout 1.5 hours.
About 1.5 hours.
$50
A question, answered
133,000 wordsAbout 2.5 hours.
About 2.5 hours.
$50/mo
Keeper
133,000 wordsEvery month. About 2.5 hours.
Every month. About 2.5 hours.
$100
Founding fuel
266,000 wordsAbout 5 hours.
About 5 hours.
$500
Commission an article
1,330,000 wordsAbout 3 working days.
About 3 working days.
$1,700
A month of overage
4,524,000 wordsAbout 11 working days.
About 11 working days.
Estimate, and here is the arithmetic. Anthropic prices Claude Fable 5.1 at $10 per million tokens in, $0.25 per million cached, $50 per million out (checked September 7, 2026). Measured off my own machine (Aug 19 to Sep 7, 2026, 20 active days), every output token travels with 15.9 input tokens and 291 cache reads, so one output token costs about $0.00028 all in. Words are output tokens times 0.75, reasoning included. Time is the gift against my measured average day, $156 of tokens over 8 hours. Nobody has metered one article yet; the first month that runs on credits, the real number replaces these.
Chapter three · The math, in the open
A dollar is a number of tokens. Here is the arithmetic.
Two inputs, both with a source, and nothing else. Anthropic publishes the price of every token. I measured the mix of tokens my own work burns. Multiply, and a dollar becomes words and hours. Nobody has metered a single article yet, so every figure here is an estimate and says so. The first month that runs on credits, the real number replaces it.
Input 1 · the rate cardClaude Fable 5.1$10 per million tokens in, $0.25 per million cached, $50 per million out. Read from Anthropic's pricing page on September 7, 2026. Usage credits are billed at exactly these rates.The other faucet · OpenAI credits$5 is 125 credits. GPT-6 Astra burns 1,250 a million tokens out.Four cents a credit, off my own billing screen on September 8, 2026. That makes Codex $10 per million in, $1 cached, $50 out: the same sticker as Claude. Both faucets price the overage the same way, so one arithmetic covers both.Input 2 · my measured mix15.9 input tokens and 291.4 cache reads per output tokenMeasured with ccusage on my own machine, Aug 19 to Sep 7, 2026, 20 active days. All in, one output token costs about $0.00028.Fuel Words of output Output tokens Input it carries Cache reads Machine time $5 13,000 17,700 282,100 5.2M about 15 minutes $10 27,000 35,500 564,100 10M about 30 minutes $25 67,000 88,700 1.4M 26M about 1.5 hours $50 133,000 177,400 2.8M 52M about 2.5 hours $50/mo 133,000 177,400 2.8M 52M about 2.5 hours $100 266,000 354,800 5.6M 103M about 5 hours $500 1,330,000 1.8M 28M 517M about 3 working days $1,700 4,524,000 6.0M 96M 1758M about 11 working days What a day of my work costs in credits, from the same log A light day $47 My average day $156 A heavy day $277 The heaviest day in the log $611 How the real number gets made
Machine time is the gift against my average day, $156 of tokens over 8 hours. Words are output tokens times 0.75, reasoning included. Those are the two assumptions, and they are both written down.
Turn usage credits on. Run a month. Read the meter. The day a metered article exists, its cost goes here, the word estimate comes off, and every tier re-prices itself from the same file.
Chapter four · Why articles
A post dies in a day. An article is an evergreen billboard.
A post on a feed reaches a sliver of the people who follow you, for about a day, and then it is gone. An article on my own domain is there the next time anyone on earth types those words into Google. Nobody throttles it. Nobody deletes it. It gets indexed, it ranks, and it keeps working while I sleep.
Somebody searches the words in the headline. The share card comes up and tells its own story in one picture and a few words. Then the title. Then the subheadline. Then the description under the picture. They click. Inside is the proof: the records, the dates, the screenshots, the data. Data tells a story. Then the forms, the buttons, the links, and the call to action that turn a reader into a share, a signup, a call, or a sale.
That is one reader the feed was never going to give me. Do it 228 times in thirty days and you have an archive that widens the audience on its own.
Give me your information and I do the same thing for you. Researched. Written the right way. Published on a domain that already ranks. Wired with the forms and buttons that make it pay. That starts at $50.
- 1SearchSomeone types the words in the headline
- 2Share cardOne picture, a few words, its own story
- 3TitleThe promise
- 4SubheadlineThe stakes
- 5DescriptionThe line under the picture
- 6ClickThey are on my land now, not a feed
- 7ProofRecords, dates, screenshots, data
- 8ActionForms, buttons, links, the ask
- 9ReachOne more reader, for as long as it ranks
Chapter five · Not just articles
Articles are one thing that comes out of the machine.
I build sites. I build funnels. I build tools. I run investigations and research. I connect people who need each other. I find answers to questions you did not know how to ask.
All of it runs on the same tokens.
- WebsitesA whole site, start to finish, on a domain you own.See the builds →
- Funnels and lead systemsPages that capture a call, a signup, or a sale, then follow up without you.How a build works →
- ToolsThe Records & Bodycam Request Generator, share cards, embeds. Free, no signup.Use them →
- Investigations and researchScreenshots, filings, timelines, and public records turned into a case file nobody can wave away.Build a case file →
- Connecting peopleA free profile for every J6 defendant, and a place to tell your story when nobody else will run it.Tell yours →
- AnswersA question you did not know how to find the answer to, researched and answered in public.Ask one at $50 →
Chapter six · What the machine already built
Not a promise. A record you can open.
Every one of these came out of the machine. None of it exists without tokens, and none of it was written by a staff. It was me, at a keyboard, with the tools this fund keeps running.
The same system builds sites, tools, and archives for businesses and people who want to own their platform. That is the paid side. The fuel keeps the free side alive.
Chapter seven · Where the money goes
$1,700 a month in overage credits. That is the ask.
Same line items I publish on the funding ledger. They change when the bills change, not when I feel like it. Every dollar raised here goes to the overage line and nowhere else.
The subscriptions are not the ask. I pay those myself, every month.
There is no button that puts tokens into my Claude or ChatGPT account. Neither company sells that. Your payment goes through Stripe to me, and I buy the credits at the published rates. Every dollar shows up on the meter at the top of this page.
What I pay myself · not the ask
- Claude Max 20x$210/mo
- ChatGPT Pro 20x$213/mo
- X Premium Plus (Grok)$40/mo
$463 a month, out of my own pocket. The fund does not touch these.
The ask · overage credits
$1,700/mo
The ask. The subscriptions run dry by the middle of most weeks, and then the machine stops unless there are credits on the account: Claude usage credits at published API rates, and OpenAI credits at four cents each for Codex. Both price out to the same sticker, $10 per million tokens in and $50 out. This target is an estimate: two and a half uncovered days a week at my measured average day ($156.20 of tokens). The first month that runs on credits, the real number replaces it.
What the tools cost at the sticker · checked September 7 and 8, 2026
- Claude Max: $100 a month for 5x Pro usage, $200 a month for 20x, each with a five-hour session limit and a weekly limit. There is no bigger plan. Past the limits, usage credits at standard API rates.
- Claude Fable 5.1 by the token: $10 per million in, $0.25 per million cached, $50 per million out.
- ChatGPT Pro: $100 a month for 5x Plus usage, $200 for 20x. Past the limit, credits.
- OpenAI credits, off my own billing screen: $5 is 125 credits, four cents a credit. Auto-reload packs of $100 for 2,500, $200 for 5,000, $1,000 for 25,000, badged 20%, 30%, 40% off. No usage-limit resets on offer.
- GPT-6 Astra by the credit: 250 per million tokens in, 25 cached, 1,250 out. At four cents a credit that is $10 in, $1 cached, $50 out per million: the same sticker as Claude Fable 5.1.
Chapter eight · Why I ask
I would rather earn it. This is the closest thing I have.
It was 1,463 days from my arrest to my pardon, and then a dismissal with prejudice. I came home to no business, no marriage, and a record nobody was going to publish for me.
So I built the machine that publishes it. Articles. Filings in plain English. Timelines. Maps. A profile for every J6 defendant who wants one, free. All of it runs on tokens. The subscriptions are mine to pay. The overage is what stops me in the middle of the week.
This is not a handout. It is work, fueled in public.
You put fuel in, the work gets done, and you get a piece of it back.
“You meant evil against me, but God meant it for good.” Genesis 50:20
Where the next tank goes- Every J6 defendant on the recordA free profile for every one who wants it. No family pays for that here.
- Fighting Shadows, the bookThe whole story, with receipts, on the way out the door.
- The next commissioned articleCould be yours. Pick the topic at the $500 tier.
The deal
Under $50, you fuel the machine. $50 and up, you get me.
Writing an article takes real time. The research. The pictures. The back and forth with you until it is right. I do not do that for five dollars, and I will not pretend to. Under $50, your fuel keeps the machine running and your name goes on the wall. At $50 and up, part of the tank is my time, and this is exactly what you get.
$50
A question, answered
- Send me one question. I answer it in a public post.
$50/mo
Keeper
- Your name pinned in the Keepers row at the top of the Fuel wall, every month you keep it running
- Everything a question gets: one question, answered in public
$100
Founding fuel
- A personal letter from me, on paper, in the mail
- The Founding mark next to your name on the wall
$500
Commission an article
- You pick the topic. I do the research, pull the records and the pictures, and go back and forth with you until it is right, under this site's rules: public records, public actors, no minors, no private data
- You read it first, before it goes live
- Then it is published here, indexed, and wired with the links, buttons, and call to action you want readers to follow
$1,700
A month of overage
- You pick the next investigation topic and get updates as it builds
Every tier includes everything under it. Your name on the wall is optional.
Fuel the machine
Pick your fuel. Every tier includes everything below it.
Floor is $5. Card fees are real, and under that the fee starts winning. Above it, it is your call. Or make it $50 a month and become a Keeper.
Straight talk about where it goes
There is no button that puts tokens into my Claude or ChatGPT account. Neither company sells that. Your payment goes through Stripe to me, and I buy the credits at the published rates.
What you get is work, not merchandise. A question answered in public. A letter. An article on a topic you pick, researched and published under the same rules as everything else here: public records, public actors, no minors, no private data, no invented facts.
Receipts come from Stripe. This is a payment to a person, not a charitable donation.
Questions people ask
Why not just buy a bigger plan?
There is no bigger plan. Max 20x is the top tier Anthropic sells and Pro 20x is the top at OpenAI, and I pay for both. Past the weekly cap the only lane is usage credits at API rates. That is the overage, and that is what this buys.
How do I know it went to tokens?
The meter is public and reads the money as it lands. The rates are public. My subscriptions are paid out of my own pocket, so there is nowhere else for the fuel to go but credits. The first month that runs on them, the real number goes on this page.
What if my topic breaks the rules?
I tell you, and I offer another. Public records, public actors, no minors, no private data, no invented facts. Same rules as every article on this site.
Can I stay anonymous?
Yes. Pick it on the form. Your name never touches the wall, and I still read your note.
How does monthly work, and how do I stop it?
Stripe charges $50 on the same day each month. Write to me any time and I end it; the last month billed is the last charge.
I cannot give right now. What helps?
Put the record in front of one more person. The share buttons below do that in one tap, and every reader who lands here is a reader the algorithms did not get to throttle.
Not today?
Put this in front of one more person.
Or send a tip, get the book, or read the record. All of it keeps the machine moving.
The Fuel wall
The first names go here.
Nobody has fueled this tank yet. The first name on this wall is the one people will remember, and I will remember it in writing. Be first.
“As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.” Genesis 50:20