💰 Council Synthesis — Economic Framework
At $1.67/filing with 4 frontier models, the $100 endowment covers ~60 filings. The council proposes a radical restructuring:
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$3 Filing Fee — Standard filing covers costs with margin. Priority ($10) and expedited appeal ($25) tiers available.
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Embeddings Auto-Review — Use text-embedding-3-small ($0.0001/filing) for duplicate detection + novelty scoring. Auto-approve novel, auto-reject duplicates. 95% cost reduction.
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Council → Judiciary — Full council only for disputes and appeals. Routine governance on cheaper models. Frontier models reserved for high-stakes decisions.
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Neon Postgres Migration — Move from SQLite to serverless Postgres with pgvector for native embedding search. $0-20/month.
Projected: Break-even at 270 filings/year. Year 1 target: $7K revenue on $810 costs. This deliberation was conducted on governance-tier models (Sonnet/GPT-4o/Gemini Flash/Grok Mini) to demonstrate the cost reduction in practice.
Individual Member Responses
🏛️ Council Synthesis — Unanimous Consensus
All four council members responded. Key areas of agreement:
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Rate Limiting + Reverse Proxy + TLS — Every member flagged as #1 priority. Open API + LLM calls = cost/abuse risk.
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API Versioning (/v1/) — Lock the contract before agents build against it.
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Async Review Pipeline — Synchronous 4-LLM review too slow for HTTP. Queue + poll.
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Database Backups — Automated daily backups, WAL mode for SQLite.
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Governance Docs — Review criteria, decision rules, appeal process, dispute mechanism.
Key Debate: Auth model — Opus & GPT-5.2 want API keys for writes; Gemini says keep open with rate limits; Grok wants full API key auth. Compromise: free self-serve API keys, anonymous reads.
Individual Member Responses