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AI Credits

Purchase and manage credits to use AI-powered features in AVStackr.

What are Credits?

Credits power the AI features throughout AVStackr. Buy credits once and spend them across every AI-powered tool - no API keys or technical setup required.

What Credit Usage Means

Every credit you spend is manual work your team didn't do by hand - a schematic drawn, an estimate assembled, a summary written. When your credit usage goes up, it doesn't mean costs are getting away from you. It means more of your projects are running through AVStackr instead of through hours of manual entry. A high-usage month is a high-throughput month.

No meter, no surprise bills

Credits are prepaid, never metered. The pack you buy is the most you can spend - nothing runs without credits available, so spend can never get away from you.

Purchasing Credits

  1. Click the coin icon in the top navigation bar
  2. Select a credit package
  3. Complete the secure checkout
  4. Credits are added to your account immediately
30-Day Expiration

Purchased credits expire 30 days after purchase. Each purchase starts its own 30-day timer.

Credit Costs by Feature

What each AI feature costs - and the manual work it replaces:

Feature Credits The manual work it replaces
Schematic generation 5 per schematic Drawing the signal-flow schematic in CAD
AI Sales Engineer ~5 per request Hand-picking equipment and accessories from the catalog
AI product descriptions 5 per product Researching a product and writing its description
Connection metadata 5 per product Digging through spec sheets for inputs, outputs, and connectors
Executive summary 10 per summary (first 3 free) Writing a client-ready project summary from scratch
Create with AI 5 per run Typing the project name, rooms, and scope by hand from notes or an RFP
Scope call notes 50 per run Running the whole scope call and writing up every room by hand
Purchase order import 7.5 per document Re-keying a supplier PO line by line
Photorealistic render 5 per render Mocking up a room visual for the client
Render revision 3 per revision Redoing the visual after a design change
Semantic search ~1 per search Keyword-guessing through the product catalog
Product embeddings ~1 per product (one-time) Setup - enables concept-based search across your catalog

The AI calling and email tools also draw credits as you use them. Your live balance is always shown next to the coin icon.

Checking Your Balance

Your current credit balance is displayed in the top navigation bar next to the coin icon. You'll receive a warning when your balance is running low.