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Live cost basis, project hours, and tool spend since March 1, 2026.

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Total spend (since Mar 1)
$—
across all AI/dev tools
Est. hours of AI co-work
~390h
Mar 11 → May 6 (Claude Code estimate)
Projects shipped
—
tracked on Desktop + Vercel
Manual time logged
0h
via Quick Log tab

What I'd cost to hire — per project

Cost basis = (your hours × hourly rate) + tools allocated proportionally. None of this work runs on autopilot — every hour is active prompting, reviewing, decision-making, and shipping. Tools are an enabling cost, not passive overhead.
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Total tool spend allocated
$—
verified + estimated for untracked tools
Total hours invested
—
across 12 active projects
Portfolio cost basis @ $200/hr
$—
your time + tools, mid-rate
At $300/hr (AI-fluent senior)
$—
market premium for your stack

Per-project cost basis

Project Hours @ $150 @ $200 @ $250 @ $300 Tools alloc Total @ $250
Hours use Claude Code's session-memory midpoint estimate. Tools allocated = each project's share of total hours × total tool spend. Boutique studio comparison shown separately below.

Tool spend allocated (since Mar 1, 2026)

Tool Verified Estimated Total How estimated

Boutique studio / agency comparison

What a comparable build would cost from a boutique product studio (multi-disciplinary, brand-forward). Use as anchor pricing when quoting clients.
Project Comparable build Studio quote (low) Studio quote (high)

Spend by month

Receipts since March 1, 2026

Auto-pulled from Gmail Bundled forward (amount in thread body)
Date Vendor Description Amount Source

Projects since March 11, 2026

Hour ranges are Claude Code's own session-memory estimate (most accurate signal). Deploys = Vercel/GitHub deployment frequency. Two flagships — NBA Draft and Athlete Gravity Index — together account for ~50% of total effort.
Project Domain Started Last Hours Share Commits Deploy Status
Total effort: ~300–475 hours across all projects · Most likely: ~360–420 hours · ≈ 6–7 hrs/day cadence over 57 days.

Activity timeline (commits per month)

Git-tracked projects only. NBA frontloaded in March; Gravity Index dominated April; Just Enough & Portfolio bridge into May.
Credits used (this month)
30,416
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Credits remaining
22,971
of 55,000 total
Threads tracked
16
Apr 13 → May 6
Heaviest thread
8,381
NBA Player Valuations · Apr 18

Per-project Perplexity rollup

Threads mapped to your projects by title. Anything ambiguous bucketed as "Other".
ProjectThreadsCredits% of usage

All Perplexity threads

DateThreadProjectCredits

AI/dev tools you've used

Auto = pulled from billing or git/file evidence. Untracked = no public API for usage time — log manually via Quick Log tab.
Tool Status Tracking Evidence

Log a session

Use this for tools without auto-tracking (Perplexity, Comet, Gemini app, ChatGPT, Cursor, etc.). Saved to your browser — won't sync across devices.
Logs to localStorage on this device.

Manual session log

No sessions logged yet.
When Project Tool Activity Min Notes
Sources for billing: Gmail receipts (Vercel, EmailJS, Google Cloud, Google Play / Google AI Pro, GitHub, Anthropic via iCloud forward). Sources for projects: ~/Desktop git repos and folder timestamps. Cutoff: March 1, 2026 onward.
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