How much does
Apex Replicant cost?
Companies buy a test, not a contract: The 30-Day Continuity Proof is $1,247, one expert hour, a measured result in 30 days, no contract. Experts on the Expert Marketplace choose how they get paid, and every price is below.
For companies
- Corporate
The 30-Day Continuity Proof.
$1,247One expert hour, a measured result in 30 days, no contract.
$1,247 one time, no contract, no auto-renewal.
Best for: Companies that want to name the one person whose knowledge they cannot replace and find out, in thirty days, what a Digital Protégé of that person is worth in their own numbers.
- One Digital Protégé
- Live in under 24 hours
- Up to 20 employee accounts
- Your documents ingested
- 25 hours of usage included. Overage: $42 an hour beyond the 25 included hours, billed by the minute.
- A day-zero baseline and a day-thirty report
- Guarantee: if your expert will not sit for the interview, you pay nothing.
- Guarantee: live within 30 days or it is free.
- Guarantee: if more than 15% of questions escalate at day 30, we keep working for free.
- Corporate
Sentinel: the enterprise product line for key-person risk.
From $1,497 a monthContinuity is $1,497 a month, Succession is $3,497 a month, and Enterprise is $7,997 and up a month. Each plan includes a pool of hours, billed by the minute. Hours beyond the plan are billed at the plan's overage rate.
Month to month: no contract, no onboarding fee, no auto-renewal, cancel any time.
Best for: Companies scaling a subject-matter expert beyond one person's calendar: sales engineers, internal trainers, policy experts, senior specialists who are fully booked.
- Continuity: 1 Digital Protégé, up to 20 employee accounts, 25 hours a month
- Succession: up to 3 Digital Protégés, up to 100 employee accounts, 75 hours a month
- Enterprise: unlimited Digital Protégés and employee accounts, 200 hours a month, single sign-on, dedicated customer success
- Structured interview plus voice training
- Refinement loop (auto-regen plus AI-surfaced suggestions)
- Audit trail exports (Succession and Enterprise)
- SOC 2 Type II readiness controls (Enterprise)
- Enterprise security packet on request
For experts
- Client Pays · Most popular
Your clients pay the rate you set. You keep 70%.
You keep 70% · Apex Replicant gets 30%Set your own rate, minimum $60/hour. You earn while you sleep. Zero infrastructure cost to you.
14-day free trial. Then $12.78/month Foundation Platform fee.
Best for: Experts who already sell their time and want the Protégé to carry overflow.
- Unlimited Protégés
- Unlimited knowledge base content
- Voice-first sessions
- Session insights plus weekly digest
- Refinement feedback loop (auto-regen plus AI-surfaced suggestions)
- Stripe Connect payouts
- Invite codes plus embed code generator
- Expert dashboard plus ROI stats
- Referral program (30-day attribution, commission payouts)
Not included- Briefcase add-on ($49/month or $399/year)
- Expert Pays
Your clients pay nothing. You pay our infrastructure cost.
$40/hourOur infrastructure cost only. Clients access your Protégé for free.
14-day free trial. Then $12.78/month Foundation Platform fee.
Best for: Lead generation and nurture, included services for existing clients, trial access and demos.
- Everything in Client Pays
- Pre-paid credits wallet (never expire)
- Clients see no payment wall
- Switch between models anytime from your dashboard
- Author Protégé
Your readers want more than the book.
$197 a monthNo setup fee, no contract, and you keep 70% of every reader session, for as long as you are on the platform.
$197 a month includes the platform, so authors do not also pay the $12.78 Foundation Platform fee. No free trial: your card is charged $197 when you subscribe.
Best for: Non-fiction authors whose readers want more than the book.
- Everything in Client Pays
- Full corpus ingestion: your books, articles, talks, and podcasts
- A 60-minute guided voice training session
- Refinement loop
Not included- Briefcase add-on ($49/month or $399/year)
What it looks like at $150/hour.
Set your rate. Your Protégé handles the session. The revenue shows up in your account.
Your take at a $150 rate, after the 30% platform share and before Stripe processing fees.
What 20 hours of Protégé time would pay at a $150 rate. An example, not a forecast.
20 client sessions at 10 minutes each = 200 minutes = 3.33 hours at $40/hour, about $133/month in infrastructure.
Three questions land you on the right tier.
- 1.Is this for internal use at a company? Start with The 30-Day Continuity Proof.
- 2.Are your clients willing to pay per session? Choose Client Pays.
- 3.Are your clients already paying you (course, book, community)? Choose Expert Pays.
Common questions.
- What does the Proof cost after thirty days?
- $1,497 a month if you continue, month to month with no contract and no onboarding fee. If you stop, you stop. There is no auto-renewal and no notice period.
- How are sessions billed?
- Per session, based on actual voice-minutes. Automatic charge at session end. No monthly invoicing unless you request it (Corporate).
- What's the difference between Client Pays and Expert Pays?
- Client Pays: your client is charged per session and you receive a payout on your split. Expert Pays: you pre-fund credits at a usage rate and your clients see no payment wall. Same product, different cash flow.
- Is there a free tier?
- No permanent free tier. Every expert gets a private sandbox for testing their own Protégé before going live. Client-facing sessions are metered.
- Is there a platform fee or free trial?
- Every expert account on Client Pays or Expert Pays starts with a 14-day free trial of the Foundation tier. After the trial, the Foundation Platform fee is $12.78/month and covers the platform itself (your Protégé, knowledge base, dashboard, refinement loop). Per-session billing (Client Pays) and per-hour usage (Expert Pays) are separate from this subscription. Author Protégé is $197 a month with no trial, and that includes the platform, so authors do not also pay the Foundation fee.
- Are there setup fees?
- No setup fees anywhere. Client Pays, Expert Pays and Author Protégé have none, The 30-Day Continuity Proof is $1,247 with nothing else to sign, and the Sentinel plans carry no onboarding fee.
- Can I change models later?
- Yes. Move from Client Pays to Expert Pays (or vice versa) at any time. Your existing clients and KB carry over.
- How do refunds work?
- Session-level refunds can be issued from your dashboard. Stripe-originated refunds flow through the same path as the original charge. Automated refund handling is partial. Contact support for anything edge-case.
- Do I pay for sessions that hit my Protégé's knowledge gap and end early?
- Voice-minutes are billed on actual time. A short session costs less than a long one. If the session was cut short because the Protégé acknowledged it didn't have the information, that's a signal to update your KB. The session itself is billed normally.
- What about Stripe fees?
- Stripe takes standard processing fees on Client Pays. Your take-home percentage is calculated after Stripe. Our platform fee is separate and flat.
- What's the referral program?
- Every expert gets a referral code. Experts who sign up through your code attribute their activity to you for 30 days. You earn a commission on their first billed period.
- How much does Briefcase cost, and is it required?
- 49 dollars per month or 399 per year. Never required. Turn it on only when your sessions benefit from client-supplied documents.
- It only knows what you have taught it
When it does not know, it escalates to you. Every tier, every session.
- PII redacted automatically
Every upload, every tier.
- 34 USPTO patent claims on file
Filed with the USPTO.
- Stripe Connect payouts
Direct to your account, on the Expert Marketplace.
- Data in US GCP regions
No cross-border storage.
- No setup fees
Client Pays, Expert Pays, and Author Protégé.
Companies buy a test, not a contract.
Experts choose how they get paid.
Pick the model. Start the interview. Your Protégé is live within a day.