The ledger
The transparency is the point. Five model eras, six shipped adapters, a 136k-render archive — here's what the fire cost.
Campaign total$88.91all GPU spend, 7 days
Burn rate$12.70/daylifetime average
Archive~136krenders forged
Renders per $~1,530archive ÷ campaign
Eras forged5v0 → MinkForge-XL v1
Adapters6+1shipped + one pending
Daily GPU spend
jul 15 – jul 21, 2026 · USD · rented pods, billing-API truth
$0
$10
$20
$30
7/157/167/177/187/197/207/21
view as table
| date | spend | what burned |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-15 | $0.57 | first pods lit |
| 2026-07-16 | $1.06 | corpus warm-up |
| 2026-07-17 | $7.35 | fleet spins up |
| 2026-07-18 | $15.16 | corpus gen at full heat |
| 2026-07-19 | $17.29 | v2 trains · 3D lane builds |
| 2026-07-20 | $17.06 | v3 tournament · crown night |
| 2026-07-21 | $30.42 | MinkForge-XL v1 trained, judged & shipped |
| total | $88.91 |
numbers come straight from the foundry's expense ledger (rented-GPU billing API; local 3060 Ti electricity not counted — she runs on love). every model era on the trophy wall was forged inside this budget. that's the whole flex: an in-house model line for less than a AAA game costs at launch.