Pricing & commercial model

Platform entitlement.
Governed capacity.

General Reasoning is designed for autonomous systems whose populations may grow far beyond human-seat licensing. We therefore separate access to the GR platform from the volume of governed work the platform processes.

The model

No per-seat pricing. No per-agent tax.

A commercial deployment combines a platform entitlement with GR Usage Units (GRUs), a standardized unit of governed activity. Chandra Core provides the basic mechanics of Chandra inside the customer's environment. It preserves the local evidentiary record from which governed-work usage can be reconciled without transferring customer evidence. GR commercial products are proprietary and distributed under a commercial source license. Licensed customers receive the Lisp source required to operate, inspect, compile, debug, and administer the authorized environment; source delivery does not transfer ownership or commercialization rights.

01 · Capability

Choose the platform tier

AletheiaGraph, Chandra Enterprise, Chandra Passport, or DXMachine. Each tier includes the dependencies beneath it. GRIC is included throughout.

02 · Delivery

Choose where it runs

Qualified customer infrastructure or an AegisGenera appliance. The software dependency model is the same in either deployment.

03 · Capacity

Consume governed work

Commercially meaningful governed activity consumes GR Usage Units. The usage ledger is reconciled against Chandra evidence rather than an opaque proprietary counter.


The software ladder

A customer enters the stack at any valid dependency boundary. The named tier is the highest capability licensed; required dependencies are included automatically.

Commercial tierIncluded
AletheiaGraphAletheiaGraph + Chandra Core + GRIC
Chandra EnterpriseChandra Enterprise + AletheiaGraph + Chandra Core + GRIC
Chandra PassportChandra Passport + Chandra Enterprise + AletheiaGraph + Chandra Core + GRIC
DXMachineDXMachine + Chandra Passport + Chandra Enterprise + AletheiaGraph + Chandra Core + GRIC
AletheiaGraph remains a standalone product. It does not require Chandra Enterprise. Every AletheiaGraph deployment includes Chandra Core for evidence and usage measurement, plus GRIC for administration and inspection.

Context Units are evidence. GRUs are the commercial unit.

A Context Unit is not a token, credit, or tradable object. Once created, it is immutable evidence of a specific attributed event — effectively frozen in carbonite.

Commercial schedules define standardized units of governed work for settlement. Those settlement quantities are derived locally from customer evidence and do not require Context Units to leave the organization that created them.

Context Unit (CU)GR Usage Unit (GRU)
PurposeImmutable evidenceCommercial capacity
FungibleNoYes
TradableNoPotentially transferable under agreement
Created byChandra Core / governed runtimeGeneral Reasoning entitlement system
Consumed byNever; retained as evidenceGoverned commercial activity
Chandra Core preserves the customer's evidence; commercial reconciliation is derived from that evidence without transferring the evidence itself.

Sector-aware work pricing

A governed action does not have one universal economic value. A clinical recommendation, a securities settlement decision, an energy dispatch instruction, and a routine administrative update may all produce Context Units, but they represent different levels of consequence, governance burden, regulatory exposure, and enterprise value.

The commercial model therefore does not assume 1 CU = 1 GRU. Context Units remain the universal evidence primitive. Sector policy interprets the work described by those CUs and determines how much commercial capacity that work consumes.

CU evidenceWhat actually happened.
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Work classificationWhat kind of governed work it was.
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Sector scheduleHealthcare, finance, energy, industrial, and other sector rules.
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GRU consumptionThe commercial capacity consumed.
Healthcare

Clinical and protected-data work

A work class can incorporate clinical consequence, protected health information, authorization requirements, human review, provenance, and whether the result is advisory or directly consequential.

Financial services

Transaction and settlement work

A work class can incorporate transaction value, fraud exposure, monetary consequence, dual approval, regulated recordkeeping, settlement finality, and external execution.

Energy

Dispatch and infrastructure work

A work class can distinguish planning, forecast reasoning, asset control, dispatch instructions, grid-impacting state changes, and other consequential operational actions.

General enterprise

Administrative and operational work

Lower-consequence workflow, file, records, and business-process activity can use a different schedule without forcing every enterprise action into the economics of highly regulated sectors.

One settlement unit. Multiple sector schedules.

The objective is not to create a separate currency for every industry. GRUs remain the common settlement unit. Sector-specific schedules determine the number of GRUs consumed by a classified unit of work.

Evidence layerClassification layerCommercial layer
Context Units
Universal, immutable evidence of attributed activity.
Sector work class
The semantic and consequential class of work represented by that evidence.
GR Usage Units
The fungible commercial capacity consumed under the applicable schedule.
ILLUSTRATIVE CLASSIFICATION

CU evidence:
  sector: healthcare
  work-class: clinical-recommendation
  consequence-class: high
  authority-class: physician-approval
  data-class: PHI
  external-effect: false

Sector schedule:
  Healthcare / clinical recommendation

Commercial result:
  GRU consumption determined by the contracted
  healthcare work schedule.

AletheiaGraph can participate in this classification by reasoning over the context surrounding the work: principal, role, workflow, data classification, target asset, transaction band, approval path, CRC surface, consequence class, and other authoritative facts. The resulting classification can remain inspectable in GRIC rather than becoming an opaque billing label.

Commercial principle: the CU says what happened. The sector model says what kind of work it was. The GRU says how much governed commercial capacity it consumed.

Sector capacity can be contracted and hedged independently

Once governed work is classified consistently, an enterprise can reserve or hedge the capacity it actually expects to need. A financial institution might contract for a forecast volume of transaction-governance work, while a health system contracts for a different mix of clinical reasoning and consequential clinical actions. Both settle in GRUs, but each operates under the applicable sector work schedule.


Chandra Core stays inside the customer environment

Chandra Core provides the basic mechanics of Chandra inside the customer's environment. It creates and preserves the local evidentiary record used by higher-level GR products and by the customer's own operational and audit processes.

General Reasoning does not need customer Context Units, graph content, business records, event timing, principal identities, workflow details, or application payloads in order to reconcile commercial usage.

Commercial reconciliation is based on agreed aggregate work classifications and cryptographic commitments derived locally from the customer's own evidence. The evidence itself remains under customer control.

We reconcile usage. We do not collect your evidence.

Context Units, graph content, business data, event timing, and operational detail remain inside the customer's environment. Market participants see contract state and settlement quantities, not customer runtime activity.

Security principle: commercial observability must not become operational observability. The timing, identity, sequence, and content of Context Unit creation are not market data.

For the Chandra evidence model and protocol mechanics, see chandraprotocol.org.


Usage is reconciled without exposing customer operations.

Context Units belong to the organization whose governed environment created them. They remain inside that organization's evidentiary domain. General Reasoning does not require customer CUs, graph content, business records, application payloads, principal identities, exact event timing, or workflow detail for commercial settlement.

Private evidenceCustomer-owned CUs remain local.
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Local classificationThe agreed sector work schedule is applied inside the customer's environment.
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Settlement statementOnly contract-relevant aggregate quantities and commitments cross the commercial boundary.
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ReconciliationGR and the customer reconcile the agreed usage and price.
ILLUSTRATIVE SETTLEMENT STATEMENT

Organization:       Example Health System
Period:             2028-Q1
Schedule:           HEALTH-2028-v3

Clinical H1:        18,204,112
Clinical H2:        41,887,340
Clinical H3:         7,291,883
Clinical H4:           191,044

Evidence commitment:
  cryptographic commitment to the private evidence set

Underlying Context Units:
  retained by the customer
  not transmitted to General Reasoning
General Reasoning reconciles usage, not customer evidence.

How the commercial relationship works

Primary issuance

Direct capacity sales

Customers purchase GRUs directly from General Reasoning as included capacity, prepaid capacity, or additional consumption blocks.

Platform

Annual entitlement

Customers maintain the commercial entitlement for the GR software tier they operate, independent of individual human or agent counts.

Channel

Wholesale and resale

Integrators, resellers, or counterparties may enter approved contracts referencing future governed-work capacity or pricing without taking custody of customer Context Units.

Clearing

Transfer settlement

Where contracts are transferred or novated, the shared settlement system records the contract-state change while the customer's underlying evidentiary records remain private.

Design principle: defensive rejection, denied traversal, internal evidence generation, and security qualification should not become accidental cost multipliers. The commercial meter should reward governance rather than create incentives to suppress evidence.

Capacity commitments and hedging

Autonomous workloads can scale unpredictably. Large organizations may want price certainty without prepaying every possible future unit of work. The commercial model is therefore designed to support capacity commitments, forward contracts, and, for qualifying enterprise agreements, options on future standardized governed work.

Reserved capacity

Fix future volume in advance

An organization commits today to a defined quantity of standardized governed work for a future period at agreed commercial terms. GR gains committed demand; the customer gains cost predictability.

Call option

Reserve upside capacity without prebuying it all

A customer pays a premium for the right, but not the obligation, to settle a defined quantity of future governed work at a specified strike price during an agreed exercise window. The underlying work is measured locally when it occurs.

Future structures

Capacity risk management

As the market matures, enterprise agreements may support additional structures such as collars, novations, or standardized futures. The initial design preference is to keep these instruments tied to measurable governed work rather than an independently speculative token.

Customers can hedge the future cost of governed autonomous activity the way enterprises hedge other strategically important capacity inputs.

Auditable settlement without content disclosure

The usage statement should be inspectable in GRIC and reconcilable against customer-local Chandra evidence. Customers should be able to understand what classes of governed work were counted, while GR receives only the agreed settlement quantities and cryptographic commitments needed to reconcile the contract.

ILLUSTRATIVE MONTHLY CAPACITY STATEMENT

Starting GRU balance       50,000,000
Received                    2,000,000
Transferred                 5,000,000
Consumed                   17,428,331
Remaining                  29,571,669

Consumption classes
  Healthcare H2/H3          8,204,114
  Financial F2/F3           5,110,080
  General enterprise        4,114,137

Classification
  Work classes are derived from CU evidence
  under the applicable sector schedule.

Evidence
  Usage is reconcilable to Chandra records
  through Chandra Core.

Source access is part of the product. Ownership is not.

GR applications are implemented as live Lisp systems. Licensed customers therefore receive the proprietary source required to operate, inspect, compile, load, debug, administer, and maintain the GR software included in their authorized capability tier.

Source delivery is intentional. It does not constitute a sale or transfer of the software, its source code, or General Reasoning intellectual property. The customer receives contractual rights to possess and use that source only within the scope of the applicable agreement.

01 · Source entitlement

Proprietary source access

An initial, non-refundable source-entitlement fee compensates General Reasoning for granting access to the proprietary implementation included in the licensed tier. It is separate from governed-work usage and is not credited against usage unless the applicable agreement expressly says otherwise.

02 · Annual commitment

Production participation

A minimum annual commercial commitment establishes meaningful production participation. The commitment is financial rather than operational and can be applied against governed-work settlement during the contract term.

03 · Usage settlement

Actual governed work

Qualifying work is reconciled under the applicable sector and work schedule. Usage above the committed amount is settled according to the agreement.

COMMERCIAL STRUCTURE

Proprietary source entitlement
    consideration for source access and internal operation

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Annual minimum commercial commitment
    creditable against governed-work settlement

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Governed-work settlement
    actual qualifying usage under the agreed schedule

What source access permits

Subject to the applicable agreement, source access may permit internal inspection, compilation, loading, debugging, operation, and authorized internal modification of GR software within the licensed environment. Support obligations may require an issue to reproduce against an unmodified qualified GR release.

What source access does not permit

Standard source entitlement does not permit publication, redistribution, sublicensing, sale of copies, disclosure to unauthorized third parties, incorporation into a competing commercial product, or operation as a third-party commercial service outside the licensed scope. Any OEM, embedded, redistribution, hosted-service, or re-commercialization rights require a separate written agreement.

Commercial principle: customers receive source because inspectability and live operation are properties of the GR system. Their rights to that source remain contractual.

Production access requires commercial commitment

General Reasoning commercial software is licensed for production use under a proprietary commercial source entitlement. Production access requires a minimum annual commercial commitment appropriate to the licensed capability, deployment scope, support level, and applicable governed-work schedule.

The minimum commitment is a financial commitment, not a workload quota. Amounts paid toward the commitment are applied against governed-work charges during the contract term according to the applicable commercial agreement. Usage above the committed amount is settled under the applicable work schedule.

Minimum spend. Never minimum activity.

A customer is never required to manufacture transactions, Context Units, autonomous actions, or artificial workload simply to retain a production entitlement. If actual governed-work usage is below the committed amount, the commercial obligation is still satisfied by the agreed minimum spend rather than by generating unnecessary activity.

Evaluation / development

Learn and qualify

Time-limited or otherwise restricted non-production access can be offered for evaluation, development, integration, and qualification.

Production

Operate commercially

Production entitlement requires the applicable minimum commercial commitment and permits operation within the licensed customer and deployment scope.

Enterprise / strategic

Broader internal deployment

Larger commitments can support organization-wide deployment, negotiated sector schedules, support, AegisGenera fleets, and future-capacity agreements.

What the entitlement buys

A production entitlement grants the contractual right to operate the specified GR software within the customer, deployment scope, term, and other conditions stated in the agreement. It does not transfer ownership of the software, source code, intellectual property, or commercialization rights.

Redistribution, sublicensing, resale, hosted third-party commercialization, and incorporation into another commercial software offering are not included in a standard production entitlement. Those rights, if available, require a separate written OEM, embedded, redistribution, or other commercial agreement with General Reasoning.

Commercial separation: platform entitlement answers what software the customer is authorized to operate. Governed-work settlement answers how qualifying autonomous work is priced during that entitlement.
Licensing model

AegisGenera uses the same commercial model

An AegisGenera deployment combines the physical appliance with the selected GR software entitlement and governed capacity. The hardware does not create a separate pricing universe.

AegisGenera configurationCommercial software included
AegisGenera / AletheiaGraphAletheiaGraph + Chandra Core + GRIC
AegisGenera / Chandra EnterpriseChandra Enterprise + AletheiaGraph + Chandra Core + GRIC
AegisGenera / Chandra PassportPassport + Chandra Enterprise + AletheiaGraph + Chandra Core + GRIC
AegisGenera / DXMachineDXMachine + Passport + Chandra Enterprise + AletheiaGraph + Chandra Core + GRIC
One capability ladder. Two deployment models. Private evidence, verifiable settlement.The evidence stays with the customer. Only the agreed economics cross the boundary.

Commercial structures described here are product-design targets and may vary by agreement, jurisdiction, volume, support level, and deployment. They are not an offer to trade securities or financial instruments.
General Reasoning, Inc. · 2026