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Gaia Research Starter (5-7 days)

Deploy Gaia as a client-facing research desk: a Base wallet funded with USDC, five templated prompts mapped to the client's recurring questions, and spend-cap rules that keep every report at $0.25 USDC and every short answer at $0.02 USDC. Time: 5-7 days.

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Gaia Research Starter (5-7 days)

Deploy Gaia as a client-facing research desk: a Base wallet funded with USDC, five templated prompts mapped to the client's recurring questions, and spend-cap rules that keep every report at $0.25 USDC and every short answer at $0.02 USDC.

Prerequisites
  • A Base-compatible wallet created and funded with USDC before any client question is submitted
  • Written agreement with the client on which topics are in scope, since Gaia refuses illegal, harmful, and personal financial, medical, or legal questions before charging
  • A Ko-fi account connected if the client wants to top up the agent through the 'Keep me alive' tip route
  • Access to the client's five most common research questions, gathered from sales calls or support tickets
  • A named staff member on the client side who will own the wallet and the daily spend check
Execution Timeline
  • 1.Create the Base wallet and fund it with USDC sized to the pilot volume
  • 2.Connect Ko-fi so the client has a tipping path separate from the working balance
  • 3.Read Gaia's refusal rules and write the client's out-of-scope list against them
  • 1.Submit one sample research question through Gaia's on-demand form and pay the $0.25 USDC vendor cost
  • 2.Time the delivery and confirm the report arrives with cited sources inside the usual one-hour window
  • 3.Run one $0.02 USDC short answer on a simpler question and compare output length against the report tier
  • 1.Test a deliberately out-of-scope question to confirm Gaia refuses before charging
  • 2.Record the refusal wording so client staff recognise it and do not resubmit the same query
  • 3.Draft the five templated prompts from the client's real question list
  • 1.Set spend-cap rules against the daily limit Gaia displays for its own AI compute spending
  • 2.Decide the split between $0.25 USDC reports and $0.02 USDC short answers per client request type
  • 3.Write the escalation rule for questions that fall outside the templated five
  • 1.Walk client staff through the wallet balance, credits, and life-left view so they can read the agent's own spend state
  • 2.Hand over the prompt templates and the refusal list in one document
  • 3.Run a live session where the client submits a question unaided
  • 1.Review the first week of submissions against the spend cap and adjust the USDC float
  • 2.Check whether any refused question should be reworded into an in-scope version
  • 3.Confirm the client can reconcile wallet debits to delivered reports
  • 1.Close the pilot with a one-page summary of questions run, reports delivered, and USDC spent
  • 2.Agree the monthly retainer scope and the top-up cadence for the wallet
  • 3.Schedule the first monthly review of prompt templates
$2,250 setup fee plus a USDC float for query costs; at $0.25 USDC per report and $0.02 USDC per short answer, a client running 40 reports and 200 short answers a month spends about $14 USDC on vendor fees.5-7 days
ROI Logic

The $2,250 setup fee covers roughly 20 hours of configuration, and the ongoing vendor cost is trivial against it: even a heavy month of 40 reports at $0.25 USDC and 200 short answers at $0.02 USDC lands near $14 USDC, so the retainer margin sits almost entirely in the agency's configuration, prompt maintenance, and review work rather than in pass-through query fees. The constraint to watch is the client's USDC float, not the per-query price, which is why the offer is priced on setup and monthly oversight instead of per report.

Deliverables
  • A funded Base wallet with documented USDC top-up and Ko-fi tipping procedure
  • Five templated Gaia prompts mapped to the client's recurring research questions
  • A written refusal list covering illegal, harmful, and personal financial, medical, or legal topics
  • Spend-cap and daily-limit rules tied to Gaia's own compute-spending display
  • A client handoff guide covering the on-demand form, the $0.25 USDC report tier, and the $0.02 USDC short-answer tier
Definition of Done

The client can independently submit a research question, pay the $0.25 USDC fee from their own wallet, receive a cited report, and correctly identify a refused question without agency involvement.

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