Freedom / private server
Two clear lanes: annual wizard membership on the hosted rail, or a buy-once private stack on hardware you own. Same soul — different custody.
two lanes — pick one story
Billing · Annual membership — Assistant $50/mo · Manager $100/mo · Artist $300/mo when open
Custody · Invite cohort on sndwzrd rails; wedge seat free forever for vault + schedule
Fit · Artists who want the team without owning a server
Billing · Buy once — Freedom Engagement < ~1 year of your burn · Pilot first if you want proof
Custody · Hardware you own; BUDDY + studio + engineer tools in your building
Fit · Labels, studios, management shops, or artists ready to leave the metered treadmill
Freedom Engagement
- Pilotscoped · credited to EngagementProve it beside your stack
- ·One real workflow live in weeks
- ·Benchmarked on your files and questions
- ·Nothing ripped out of what already works
- Freedom Engagement< ~1 year of your burnFull migration to independence
- ·Side-by-side cutover, milestone-paid
- ·Private AI + ops on your machine
- ·Pays back inside year one; years after are savings
this path is
- +Wonderland-class private OS — BUDDY, boards, vault, approvals, studio gate rails — on iron in your building
- +One-time Freedom Engagement priced against what you free (about a year of your current burn), paid in milestones as you watch it work
- +Optional Pilot first — one scoped win beside your current stack, credited toward the Engagement
- +Data stays yours; no metered Claude bill forever as the only option
- +Optional later updates at a discount — skipping a year changes nothing about what you already own
this path is not
- −Not the Assistant / Manager / Artist annual membership (that is the subscription lane on this site)
- −Not a per-seat SaaS that climbs every year and holds your masters hostage
- −Not 'own Counterpoint's calendar' — studio booking stays request-access + deposit whether or not you buy Freedom
- −Not a fake zero-cloud claim before your Pilot benchmarks what runs local
Straight talk: we sell freedom from the metered treadmill — and eventual freedom from us. Core work runs on owned hardware; cloud is only by your choice after the Pilot proves the number. Studio sessions remain scarce and gated either way.