Member budget — the budget screen

What today cost, against what ceiling, on what, and for how much longer. Every figure is a sum over the person’s own budget days; the period and the bands are read-side filters that change what is drawn and never a total.

Your research

Budget

The daily budget follows your own clock: it counts again at 06:30, half an hour before your day starts. During the day it’s yours to spend, and what a reviewer asks the assistant comes out of it too. What’s left over is used outside your day for work on the library.

Daily budget
Now: $6,00

You set $9,00. It starts on 16-08-2026.

A change starts at your next counting day, never halfway through this one, and never backwards: today keeps the budget it began with.

Today$2,55of $6,00 · $3,45 left today
This month$23,47Every day whose start falls in this month, whatever a filter above is showing.
Credit$52,68 of $75,00 added$52,68 left
Spending per day14 days · $23,47
Period
Where it went
from tomorrow
daily budget
  • 02-08-2026: $2,74. The research team $2,74
  • 03-08-2026: $1,80. The research team $1,80
  • 04-08-2026: $1,35. You and your reviewers $0,40, The research team $0,95
  • 05-08-2026: nothing spent.
  • 06-08-2026: $3,20. The research team $3,20
  • 07-08-2026: $2,05. You and your reviewers $0,55, The research team $1,50
  • 08-08-2026: $0,88. The research team $0,88
  • 09-08-2026: $2,70. The research team $2,40, Check-ins $0,30
  • 10-08-2026: nothing spent.
  • 11-08-2026: $1,30. The research team $1,30
  • 12-08-2026: $0,95. You and your reviewers $0,70, Check-ins $0,25
  • 13-08-2026: $1,90. The research team $1,90
  • 14-08-2026: $2,05. The research team $2,05
  • 15-08-2026: $2,55. You and your reviewers $0,45, The research team $2,10
  • You and your reviewers
  • The research team
  • Check-ins

A day with no column is a day nothing was spent on, not a failure. The dashed column at today is what’s still left of today’s budget.

What it was spent on
  • Finding new sources$10,25
  • Drawing up the plan$3,20
  • Reading a source in full$2,54
  • Working a round into the plan$2,40
  • Your questions to the assistant$2,10
  • Distilling what was read$1,83
  • Not stated$0,60
  • The check-in conversation$0,55

This describes what’s drawn above: change the period or switch a part off and this list follows. The figures at the top of the screen don’t move.

How long the credit lastsArithmetic on what you have already spent. It isn’t a promise, and it changes the moment your spending does.
32 days$1,64 a day
32 days

The credit you had, day by day

  • Last 7 days: $1,64 a day, 32 days.
  • Last 30 days: $1,68 a day, 31 days.
  • Your daily budget, in full: $9,00 a day, 5 days.

Each rate is what those days actually cost, divided by the days your account has existed, so a young account is measured against its own life and not against a week it hasn’t had.

When their own budget runs low, or is used

A member buys one budget and sets how fast it is spent. Low is three days at their daily budget, or $3; used is the part kept for their conversations, where research takes nothing more. Either way the screen says it in one sentence and how to buy more: by writing to the deployment’s own contact. There is no shop.

Your budget is running low: $12,40 left, about 2 days at your daily budget. To buy more, write to team@example.org

How broadly their research searches

The member chooses the research depth with the summary they agree to, and changes it in Settings. Each level states its measured most a round and opens a walk-through on any device; a change governs from their next night, so a round under way is never re-scoped. A choice nobody made, or a word the engine does not run, is Standard.

How broadly your research searches

Your daily budget stays the same. A broader search finds more each round, so it uses your budget faster.

How Standard works

Each round your research takes one theme of your question and searches for what is new since its last round. Its checks keep about 5 to 8 new sources a round: that each one exists, that it is the work it says it is, and that it is not already in your library. Where a source is open it is read in full, otherwise its abstract, and every finding is checked against the text it came from. One search a round costs about $0,11 to $0,16, and reading a source in full about $0,30.

How Thorough works

Everything Standard does, and in the same round a second search for what weighs the evidence: systematic reviews, meta-analyses, clinical guidelines and consensus statements from professional bodies, of any date. When we measured it, the second search found 4 to 7 more sources a round, through the same checks. It costs about $0,10 to $0,14 more a round, and about $0,30 for each extra source read in full.

Your research searches at Standard.

The day clock, on the settings screen it actually lands on

The kit contributes a panel spec, never a card: SettingsSurface owns the Instellingen geometry and every kit reaches it through the panels slot. So this is the real shell surface with the real slot — the shell’s own account and preference panels above, the kit’s day clock under them. Editing the day moves the boundary spend is counted between, so the reset above changes with it.

Settings

Your account

Account
Email addressmember@example.org
Sign out on this deviceYour work stays where it is; signing in again is another link by mail.
Preferences
LanguageThe language this platform speaks to you in.
Appearance
CurrencyThe currency you pay in. Money already held in another currency is shown in that one.
NumbersThousands and decimals.
DatesWhere a date is written as digits; in running text it stays written out.
This is how you will read it: €1.000,21 · 18-03-1991
Quickly to
BudgetTeam
Your day
Time zoneEurope/Amsterdam · Your budget starts again at 06:30.
Spending is counted per day, and this is where yours begins and ends. Changing it moves the line between one day and the next. It isn’t only how things are shown.

What the screen asked its host to do

Nothing yet. Every verb above lands here.