AI

What's running, what it costs, what it remembers — and how to use your own assistant instead.

The desks, and what's behind them

The Agency isn't one chatbot wearing hats. Each desk is a separate specialist with its own brief, tools and thread — Bruno can't read Carlos's notes, and neither can see your crew's private room. They share one hard rule: events, venues and clubs come from the Bearings commons, never from the model's memory.

Chai · front desk

greets you, learns what the trip's really about, and brings in whoever you need.

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Bruno · event & scene

knows the organisers, volunteered for years, knows what's actually on.

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Don · budget

the daddy who keeps the whole trip adding up.

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Carlos · food

lives to eat; knows the table worth booking.

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Olivier · after dark

knows the night — and who's who: who's single, who's into what.

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Max · out & about

gets you out into the place — and shows you how to get around it.

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Theo · creators & inclusivity

the creators nerd — and your read on which rooms are actually welcoming.

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Pip · digital spaces

your map to the apps, servers and online scene where bears actually hang out.

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Desks without their own line run on claude-sonnet-5. Lookup-heavy desks are pinned to smaller, cheaper models where judgement isn't the bottleneck — a cost decision, stated rather than hidden.

What you've spent

Talking to a desk is the only thing on Forage that costs money — every message runs a real model, and the steward pays for it. Browsing, Discover, Plan, your passport and the whole MCP side are free and always will be. This is the real metered number, not an estimate.

For scale: a normal back-and-forth with a desk is a few cents. A long research-heavy turn — searching the web, reading a dozen events — can be ten times that.

Want to spend nothing at all? Connect your own AI and your own subscription pays for the thinking — Forage just answers the tools.