The waterfall.
From the books.

Pricing pages say what a project costs. They never tell you what the studio takes home, what gets reinvested, or how the underlying business actually works. That gap is where buyer confusion and trust loss happen, especially when a $5k invoice looks expensive without context.

The waterfall above is what hits the MGT bank account each month and where it goes. Infra and AI tooling stay flat regardless of revenue. Tax reserve scales linearly. Reinvestment is the line that builds new tools (the X engine, the cron platform, this website). Take-home is what is left.

Numbers are updated on the first of each month from the actual books. If you want the back-of-the-envelope per-tier breakdown instead, the sibling /pricing-honesty page goes through the tiered cost-line math. This page is the operating side.