Week of August 16: Bring Your Own Keys

Bring Your Own Keys

Last week you got the last word on finished work. This week is about the other end of the arrangement: what your workforce runs on, and what it costs you.

You can now bring your own AI provider keys and pay your provider directly. And on the weeks you'd rather we handled it, the workspace got a lot more honest about money.

What's New

Your keys, your provider, no markup

Bring an API key you already pay for and your atoms will use it. Work run on your own key is billed by your provider, not by us.

Direct keys now sit in their own place, separate from the catalog of ready-made connections, because the two are different things: one is a credential you own, the other is a service you switch on.

Before a key is saved you're shown the provider's own pricing and asked to acknowledge it, so nothing about the cost is a surprise later.

Held for funds, asked once

When a workspace runs out of money, work stops. It always did. What's new is what happens next.

You get told once, in plain terms, naming the work that's waiting and what it needs. You can decline.

Say no and the ask is done, not repeated on the next task and the one after that. When you come back, you get a short summary of what's been waiting rather than a wall of stalled work.

And if you'd rather it never happen again, the offer to turn on automatic top-ups is right there, with the amount already worked out.

Auto top-up stands on its own

Automatic top-ups are now their own setting, in one place, doing one job: keeping the wallet funded.

Spend caps went back to being what the name says, a limit on spending.

Two controls, two purposes, no overlap.

Send a list, get a list done

Email your Chief of Staff (cos@crew.supanova.team) a bulleted or numbered list and each item becomes its own piece of work rather than one lump.

When the batch finishes, one digest comes back covering all of it, instead of a separate message per item.

Two smaller things in the same vein: payment links now arrive as links you can click rather than raw addresses, and if a task is blocked waiting on a question, replying to that email answers it.

Answer from your inbox and the app updates while you're still reading.

Charged what it actually cost

We found and fixed a case where certain work could be charged twice, removed a rounding floor that quietly inflated very small charges, and corrected the price on one kind of usage that had been calculated wrong. Nothing here changes what you do.

It changes what your ledger says, in your favor.

Sixty-three weeks in. You built it, you talk to it, you trust it, and now you can run it on your own terms. See you next Sunday.