One-Day Intensive

Control AI Spending

07.25.26 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM PDT · 1 hours in one focused day

What You'll Master

  • How to actually keep a budget
  • How to reduce costs and keep them under control
  • It's also a space and time to do this together
This class is full

🎓 No sponsored scholarship seats are open in this class yet. You can still apply for a scholarship. · sponsor one →

Part of the AI for Teams (No-Code Path) track — 4 classes, take them in any order.

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  1. Critical Thinking and Creativity with AI Date TBA
  2. Control AI Spending You're here
  3. Automate Your Email: No Code AI Automation Date TBA
  4. Business Automation Date TBA

Overview

You don't have to fund the AI bubble by yourself, you can actually cut the cord and control your spending, while getting to say "yes" to your artistic desires and your project mania.

Who this is for & what you'll need

🟡 Guided codingYou'll run commands and edit files. No prior experience needed.
💻 💪 Capable or 💵 subscriptionUse your own capable machine, or a paid hosted option below.
On your own machineRun local open-source models on hardware you already own via Ollama or MLX (Mac); cheap paths include an old phone flashed with postmarketOS or an Orange Pi 5 Plus (~$150).

Where This Class Leads

What you leave able to do

  • produce an itemised bill for what your running system costs
  • segment text into tokens and cost it
  • characterise what a tool costs you beyond its price
  • characterise what one user costs you to serve
  • classify each recurring ai cost by keep downgrade or replace
  • classify models by fit for a workload
  • verify a spending limit declines the charge you did not intend

How you show it. A card with a monthly cap set below your previous spend, every subscription moved onto it, and the decline you caused deliberately. A limit nobody has tested is a preference, not a control.

It sits on 4 paths

🤖 Build production AI systems from prompt to deployment. 2 of 12 after Using Large Language Models · before AI Alignment 💼 Replace repetitive business operations with AI (a mini-MBA in AI). 1 of 4 before Automate Your Email: No Code AI Automation 🧑‍💼 Founder with an AI-first company. 1 of 7 before Founding Federation: Price and Ideate (Week 0) 🔓 Technological sovereignty — not just saving money. 2 of 7 after Intro to Open Source Software · before Solarpunk Automation

See what your hours buy.

Join Us

One-Day Intensive
Suggested $ 50 · pay what you can
  • Your seat in the class
  • Lifetime access to materials
  • Minimum price — doesn't fund a scholarship seat

The minimum is $50 — it keeps out spam. Need to pay less? Apply for a scholarship — no one is turned away for lack of funds.

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