AI Focus cost and monthly cap

The cap

AI Focus subscriptions include up to 100 cumulative hours of AI-watched focus per billing month (150 on AI Focus Max). "AI-watched" means any minute a block with a non-empty task context was active and the classifier was polling. The budget pools across every AI-powered block you have.

Graceful degradation

We don't hard-cap. Cutting users off mid-month — exactly when their reliance on the system is highest — would be a worse experience than slowing the polling rate. The AI assistant automatically slows its polling rate as you approach the monthly allowance, and continues at a reduced cadence past it.

What slower polling means in practice

The classifier still runs, the interventions still fire, but the reaction time is longer. For most users this is a meaningful but tolerable degradation; for power users approaching the cap, it's the signal to consider BYOK.

Why we picked this shape

Degraded service is better than no service. A user who hits the cap and gets cut off churns; a user who hits the cap and just sees slower polling stays. The cap exists to keep our unit economics defensible at the $4.99/mo and $39/yr founder pricing.

Monitoring your usage

Settings → AI Focus shows your month-to-date hours and your current polling rate.
The status changes color as you approach the higher degradation tiers.
Hours reset at the start of every billing month.

BYOK calls bypass the cap entirely — you're paying Anthropic per call, so polling stays at full cadence regardless of how many hours you've used.