Flagship · Weekly Brief
Monday, July 27, 2026
Regime
NEUTRAL
Cash
7.34%
Positions
18
Tickets
0
Macro rationale
NEUTRAL is unchanged and well-corroborated. Stress signals are absent: VIX 18.58 (-0.58% vs 200d) and HY OAS 2.77 below its 90d SMA — no escalator fires, so the §5.4 band stays 5-15% with 15% the hard ceiling and the enforced working reserve. But the late-cycle framing is intact and getting more crowded: NAAIM 95.64 near-maximum manager positioning, forward ERP ~+0.4% (forward P/E 20.3x vs 4.55% 10Y), HY at the ~18th percentile, and QQQ sitting just shy of the +8% extension threshold. Growth is decelerating (June payrolls +57K with -74K revisions, participation 61.5%, GDPNow 1.7%) against a hawkish-hold Fed (median 2026 dot 3.8%, 9 of 18 lean hike, core PCE 3.4%) — the 2s10s at +0.37 un-inverted completes the late-cycle picture. Two dated risk events sit inside the window: the July 28-29 FOMC (haiku flagged July-hike odds jumping 10.7% → 34.7% in a week, a direct financing-cost threat to the datacenter capex line) and the July 31 100% patented-pharma tariff. The Houthi VLCC diversion out of Suez is a live crude/LNG bid lifting the energy tilt to +4 and re-validating the physical-layer hedge slots (NEM, SCCO, CCJ). On the private-money side nothing broke: Alphabet raised 2026 capex guidance to $195-205B (from $175-185B) this week, TSMC's 10% 2027 price hikes and the memory-price forecast confirm the compute bottleneck, and defense is fully appropriated (P.L. 119-75, $839.2B) with FY2027 CR risk not a present condition. So: funders intact, risk premia near zero, two event-risk dates in two trading days. That is a hold-the-book, sit-at-the-band-top posture — not a de-risk, not a lean-in. Cash goes to the 15% enforced working reserve.
Thesis
Operator-transition audit outcome: the §3a foundation and §3b opportunistic sleeves stay at 0% this run — not by choice but by mechanics. stale_policy=YES blocks every open and add, and the book is pinned at exactly the 18-position schema floor, so there is no displacement path either. Sleeve build is deferred to the first non-stale deep run, funded from the 15% reserve rather than by closing a thesis name. Re-derivation under the amended policy produced the same book. Every funder is intact or strengthening: Alphabet lifted 2026 capex to $195-205B (AVGO/MU/TSM/ANET), TSMC's 10% 2027 price hikes and the $100B Arizona buildout confirm the foundry leg, copper sits at record highs against a ~320k-tonne 2026 deficit, term U3O8 is $94-95.50/lb, and defense is appropriated through FY2026. No §6.5 flow break, no durability break, no cap breach. One discretionary ticket. KTOS is the book's largest name at 11.11% purely through drift from a 7.00% deliberate entry — never a conviction sizing. Score 62 sits near the floor, FCF is negative through the drone ramp, and the position briefing explicitly says the entry trigger (revenue scale + margin firming) is unconfirmed and "the weight drift alone warrants sizing discipline." I trim -2.30pp to 8.81% and bank the proceeds to rebuild cash to the 15% enforced working reserve ahead of the July 29 FOMC. This is sizing discipline plus reserve rebuild, not a thesis exit — MACH-TB 2.0 and the Pentagon drone-dominance program are intact and KTOS
Reflection
No flow break anywhere: Alphabet capex $195-205B, TSMC 2027 price hikes, copper ATH, U3O8 $94+. Crowding and event risk, not deterioration — sit at the 15% band top into FOMC.
The transition audit made the structural trap explicit rather than fixing it: I was asked to re-derive under the amended barbell, and the honest answer is that under stale_policy plus an exactly-18 book I have zero degrees of freedom — no foundation sleeve, no LMT/VEEV/DRS displacement, and three names I have judged broken (MP 44, PSN 59, LUNR 54) carried on a position-count technicality for the sixth straight run. That is now the single largest known defect in the book and it is mechanical, not analytical. Separately: KTOS at 11.11% was never a decision, it was drift — I should check drift-to
Positions (18)
- MUMicron Technologycomputehold3.86%88flow acceleratingconf
Funder
Durable US HBM3E/HBM4 memory franchise in a capacity-disciplined cycle — 84.6% GM, FCF positive, the only US-domiciled leading-edge DRAM maker, run with genuine supply discipline after two decades of boom-bust. Named flow: 16 Strategic Customer Agreements (~$100B contracted through 2030), Anthropic multi-year supply deal, and Alphabet's raised 2026 capex guide to $195-205B feeding HBM demand; scor
Unwind
DRAM/NAND spot-price collapse or HBM oversupply breaking the shortage thesis; hyperscaler capex cut; erosion of the 16-SCA contract book.
Catalyst
FQ4 earnings — HBM4 qualification progress and FY2027 supply commitments against the ~84% projected revenue growth.
Scenarios · 12mo targets
$500.00 base
$650.00 bull — HBM4 sells out through 2027 at rising ASPs; SCA book converts and memory stays structurally short into 2029.
$300.00 bear — Hyperscalers pause the capex ramp on financing costs; conventional DRAM oversupplies and drags blended pricing down.
- TSMTaiwan Semiconductor Manufacturingcomputehold5.83%86flow steadyconf
Funder
World-leading foundry with an effective monopoly at <=3nm — every meaningful AI accelerator routes through TSMC. >50% GM, prodigious FCF, famously disciplined capex, 73% foundry share. Named flow: the $100B Arizona buildout de-risks the geopolitical tail, 10% 2027 price hikes confirm pricing power, CoWoS advanced packaging to 120-140k wpm by end-2026, and the ~$725B 2026 hyperscaler capex line rou
Unwind
Gross margin sustained <50% for two consecutive quarters; a rival closing the leading-edge yield gap; a Taiwan-strait event that Arizona capacity cannot offset.
Catalyst
Monthly revenue prints and the next capex guide; N2 ramp commentary on AI demand visibility through 2029-2030.
Scenarios · 12mo targets
$340.00 base
$420.00 bull — N2/A16 ramp plus 2027 price hikes lift blended ASPs while Arizona removes the geopolitical discount.
$220.00 bear — 2027 AI capex decelerates on the capex-to-revenue gap; leading-edge utilization slips and the multiple compresses.
- NVDANVIDIAcomputehold3.61%74flow softeningconf
Funder
AI-accelerator franchise with the CUDA software moat — ~74.9% GM, fortress balance sheet, and a developer lock-in no ASIC competitor has replicated. Named flow: ~$725B 2026 hyperscaler capex on Blackwell/Rubin (MSFT/AMZN/GOOGL/META) plus the Stargate $500B JV. Score has slipped 14 to 74 on AMD landing training/inference deals at OpenAI, Meta and Anthropic — the ASIC/competitor share creep is the t
Unwind
Data-center revenue YoY <20% for two consecutive quarters; hyperscaler in-sourcing materially displacing GPU share toward the 25% TAM invalidation line.
Catalyst
Q2 datacenter revenue print and Rubin ramp commentary; July 29 FOMC — higher financing costs pressure the datacenter buildout.
Scenarios · 12mo targets
$225.00 base
$290.00 bull — Rubin ramps into an undiminished capex cycle and inference share holds above 70%, re-accelerating datacenter revenue.
$140.00 bear — AMD plus hyperscaler ASICs take visible share while a 2027 capex deceleration compresses both growth and multiple.
- ASMLASML Holdingcomputehold2.96%61flow softeningconf
Funder
EUV / High-NA monopoly — the single most irreplaceable tool in advanced semis, with no commercial-scale alternative at 2nm and a multi-year backlog, ~50% GM. Named flow: Norway GPFG holds, Coatue and Third Point added in Q1; the TSMC/Samsung/Intel 2025-27 EUV orderbook plus TSMC's 30% 2027 capacity increase backstops cash flow. Score fell 24 to 61 on valuation after an ~87% H1 run — the franchise
Unwind
Book-to-bill <0.7 for three consecutive quarters; a Dutch/US export-control tightening that removes a material share of the orderbook; forward P/E stretching past ~45x on decelerating bookings.
Catalyst
Next quarterly bookings print — the confirming datapoint for 2027 High-NA orders.
Scenarios · 12mo targets
$1,550.00 base
$1,900.00 bull — High-NA orders convert on schedule and 2027 bookings reaccelerate on the foundry capacity expansion.
$950.00 bear — Bookings decelerate into a capex digestion year and the post-87%-run multiple compresses hard.
- AVGOBroadcomcomputehold2.92%63flow acceleratingconf
Funder
Custom-silicon ASIC leader (~70% share) plus the VMware infrastructure-software moat — huge FCF, $7B+ annual buyback, serial dividend grower, and a management team with one of the best capital-allocation records in semis. Named flow this week: Alphabet raised 2026 capex guidance to $195-205B (from $175-185B), directly feeding TPU volume; Meta MTIA at 1+GW and Anthropic ASIC contracts; AI segment +
Unwind
AI custom-chip revenue stalls below a $25B annual run-rate; full hyperscaler in-sourcing displaces the ASIC design franchise; VMware renewal churn breaks the software leg.
Catalyst
Q2 earnings — custom-chip bookings against Alphabet's raised capex guide.
Scenarios · 12mo targets
$420.00 base
$520.00 bull — TPU and MTIA volumes step up on the raised Alphabet/Meta capex; ASIC backlog converts above the $30B bookings mark.
$260.00 bear — Hyperscalers in-source design, ASIC growth stalls near $25B and the VMware price increases drive visible churn.
- ANETArista Networkscomputehold2.60%67flow acceleratingconf
Funder
Arista — durable hyperscaler-networking franchise and consistent share-gainer since 2004; ~61.9% GM, net cash, no debt, and the single-image EOS software moat that keeps switching costs high. Jayshree Ullal's capital discipline is a genuine differentiator. Named flow: Microsoft and Meta named as largest customers funding 29-35% YoY growth, guidance raised two consecutive quarters, AI-driven sales
Unwind
Microsoft+Meta combined concentration >50% with revenue decelerating; Spectrum-X or whitebox displacing EOS in a named hyperscaler footprint; gross margin breaking below ~60%.
Catalyst
Next quarterly print — AI-cluster revenue share and 2027 guidance.
Scenarios · 12mo targets
$200.00 base
$240.00 bull — Ethernet keeps taking AI-fabric share from InfiniBand; AI revenue clears 50% of the mix with margins above 46%.
$130.00 bear — NVIDIA Spectrum-X wins a flagship hyperscaler footprint and the Microsoft/Meta concentration turns into a decel.
- CCJCamecoenergyhold7.05%67flow steadyconf
Funder
Tail-risk hedge slot (§5.3): tier-1 Saskatchewan uranium franchise (McArthur River/Cigar Lake) plus the 49% Westinghouse JV with Brookfield — irreplaceable, permitted, low-cost tonnes in a stable jurisdiction. Named flow: term U3O8 at $94-95.50/lb vs a $60+/lb legacy contract book that is repricing upward; Kazatomprom's 8Mlb output cut sustains a structural deficit; the Trump EO targeting 400GW US
Unwind
Uranium spot/term price collapse; contract-book erosion or failure to reprice legacy contracts upward; a reactor-build program cancellation. Score drift alone is not a trim trigger.
Catalyst
Quarterly contracting-volume disclosure and the next UxC/TradeTech term-price print.
Scenarios · 12mo targets
$90.00 base
$115.00 bull — Term price pushes past $100/lb as utilities re-contract; Westinghouse AP1000 orders convert on the 400GW program.
$55.00 bear — Term uranium rolls over and the nuclear equity complex keeps lagging XLE; contracting volumes disappoint.
- GEVGE Vernovaenergyhold4.92%61flow steadyconf
Funder
Gas-turbine and grid franchise with genuine pricing power — ~$163B backlog (3.5+ years of sales), turbines sold out through 2030, 10-20% price realization on new orders, quadrupled FCF. A three-player global oligopoly in heavy-duty turbines; the electrification bottleneck cannot be routed around. Named flow: Norway GPFG added post-spin; Oracle/Alphabet datacenter capex pull-through; gas orders +88
Unwind
Gas-turbine backlog cancellation or a hyperscaler power-capex cut; wind losses widening enough to consume gas-segment profit; EV/EBITDA breaching the ~25x exit ceiling.
Catalyst
Next order-book disclosure — gas-turbine backlog growth against the wind drag.
Scenarios · 12mo targets
$720.00 base
$900.00 bull — Gas orders keep compounding at +88% on datacenter PPAs while wind is ring-fenced or divested, re-rating the mix.
$450.00 bear — Wind losses widen further and a hyperscaler power-capex pause stalls the turbine order book.
- SCCOSouthern Copperenergyhold8.01%68flow steadyconf
Funder
Tail-risk hedge slot (§5.3): lowest-cost major copper producer with the industry's largest reserve base, 59.8% GM, FCF positive, and a large dividend — Grupo Mexico ownership means capital discipline and no empire-building. Named flow: ~320k-tonne 2026 copper supply deficit with prices at record highs above $6.50/lb, BHP's first-half results showing copper overtaking iron ore for the first time, A
Unwind
Copper price collapse breaking the deficit thesis; Tia Maria / Los Chancas permitting reversal; a dividend cut signalling balance-sheet stress.
Catalyst
Tia Maria / Los Chancas permitting progress — the key un-priced upside catalyst.
Scenarios · 12mo targets
$155.00 base
$185.00 bull — The 320k-tonne deficit widens on grid and datacenter demand; Tia Maria permits clear and adds volume growth.
$100.00 bear — A China-led industrial slowdown breaks the deficit and copper round-trips; Peruvian permitting stalls again.
- MPMP Materialsenergyhold3.35%44flow softeningconf
Funder
Only scaled US rare-earth mine plus magnet producer — Mountain Pass is a genuinely irreplaceable asset against China's ~98% magnet control. Named flow is a government-backstopped moat: DoD $400M Series A preferred, $150M loan, a 10-year $110/kg NdPr price floor and a 10-year magnet offtake for the 10X facility, plus the Apple long-term contract. Honest assessment: this is the weakest name in the b
Unwind
FCF stays negative through the magnet ramp; the China blacklist chokes processing-technology access materially; 10X construction slips; the DoD price floor or offtake is withdrawn. Any of these closes it at the next non-stale run.
Catalyst
10X Texas magnet-facility construction milestone and the first NdPr floor-price settlement disclosure.
Scenarios · 12mo targets
$60.00 base
$85.00 bull — 10X magnet line commissions on schedule, TTM FCF turns positive and the DoD floor plus Apple offtake reprice the asset.
$28.00 bear — China blacklist blocks processing-technology access, 10X slips and cash burn continues with no FCF inflection.
- NEMNewmont Corporationenergyhold7.52%85flow steadyconf
Funder
Tail-risk equity hedge (§5.3): largest gold producer with tier-1 long-life assets, strong post-Newcrest FCF and dividend, and visibly improving cost discipline after the divestiture program. Named flow: sustained central-bank gold accumulation as reserve diversification, TD Cowen upgrade to buy on July 14 ($127 PT, +5.4% that day), and score recovered 83 → 88, the highest in the energy pillar. Thi
Unwind
Cost overruns or mine disappointments breaking FCF and the dividend; durable disinflation plus a real-rate surge removing the stagflation-hedge rationale; a peer-relative multiple stretch.
Catalyst
Quarterly AISC print and the July 29 FOMC — a hawkish hold with sticky core PCE is directly supportive.
Scenarios · 12mo targets
$125.00 base
$155.00 bull — Central-bank buying persists while the Fed stays frozen against 3.4% core PCE; AISC keeps falling and FCF re-rates.
$80.00 bear — Real rates surge on a hawkish repricing, gold rolls over, and cost overruns at legacy Newcrest mines squeeze FCF.
- KTOSKratos Defensedefensehold11.03%62flow steadyconf
Funder
Tactical drones (XQ-58A Valkyrie), hypersonics and turbine engines. Named flow intact: DoD MACH-TB 2.0 IDIQ prime ($1.45B ceiling, 5-yr), Project Helios $68.3M hypersonic-materials single award, USMC Valkyrie mods, the Pentagon's Unleash American Drone Dominance program (22K+ units, $1.1B), UK £5B drone commitment, and ARK accumulation on June 30. Why the trim: 11.11% was pure drift from a deliber
Unwind
Backlog or contract cancellations; margin failing to inflect through the drone ramp; a DoD unmanned-systems funding cut, or FY2027 appropriations slipping past October 1 into a CR that blocks new starts and production-rate increases.
Catalyst
Next earnings — margin inflection on the drone ramp and backlog funding percentage; FY2027 appropriations progress before October 1.
Scenarios · 12mo targets
$75.00 base
$100.00 bull — Drone-dominance volume converts the $2B+ backlog at scale and margins finally inflect on 20%+ revenue growth.
$40.00 bear — An FY2027 CR blocks new starts, the drone ramp keeps consuming cash and margins stay flat with FCF negative.
- HEIHEICOdefensehold10.23%68flow steadyconf
Funder
Defense/aero aftermarket compounder and a textbook 20-30 year franchise — the Mendelson family has owned and run it since 1957, compounding FCF at 20%+ with a disciplined serial-acquisition model ($1B+/yr of bolt-ons at sensible prices). FAA-PMA parts and MRO are structurally insulated from budget volatility. Named flow: record Q2 net income +49% YoY on record sales of $1.375B, FSG $929M vs $864M
Unwind
Organic growth decelerating below 6% with margin compression; forward P/E sustained above 50x WITH growth deceleration confirmed (valuation alone is not the trigger); a value-destroying large acquisition breaking the capital-allocation record.
Catalyst
Q3 earnings — organic growth rate and ETG margin, the test of whether 54x is earned.
Scenarios · 12mo targets
$410.00 base
$480.00 bull — Organic growth stays double-digit and the bolt-on machine keeps compounding ETG margins; commercial MRO cycle extends.
$280.00 bear — Organic growth decelerates below 6% and the ~54x multiple de-rates hard toward the historical mean.
- PSNParsons Corporationdefensehold3.56%59flow softeningconf
Funder
Parsons — C5ISR/cyber government-services prime with a sticky multi-year IDIQ backlog: MDA SHIELD ($151B ceiling), DTRA cyber $137M, USAF MATOC $15B, Navy WEXMAC $10B, a $500M Cyber Hunt Kit and a $125M Army AI/ML task order. Honest assessment: this is the book's other broken name — score 59 below the 60 floor, the Q4 miss took revenue -8% YoY on a softened confidential contract (stock -14.4%), an
Unwind
Book-to-bill below 1.0 for two consecutive quarters; confidential-contract revenue softness persisting and blocking backlog conversion. Close at the first non-stale run that permits a replacement open.
Catalyst
Next quarterly print — book-to-bill and whether SHIELD/C5ISR task orders finally convert.
Scenarios · 12mo targets
$85.00 base
$105.00 bull — SHIELD and MATOC task orders start converting, book-to-bill recovers above 1.0 and the confidential contract laps.
$55.00 bear — Confidential-contract softness persists, book-to-bill stays sub-1.0 and defense-services multiples compress on CR risk.
- LLYEli Lillybiologyhold6.09%73flow steadyconf
Funder
Premier pharma compounder — the Mounjaro/Zepbound GLP-1 franchise (~60% US share) plus oral orforglipron (Foundayo, FDA-approved) and retatrutide in Phase 3 (~70lb loss), on 82.9% gross margin with strong FCF and a 145-year record of research reinvestment. Named flow: the $27B US manufacturing expansion, which also positions it favorably under the July 31 Section 232 pharma tariff (100% on importe
Unwind
Tirzepatide US script share falling >5pts to Novo over two quarters; retatrutide Phase 3 disappointing; IRA/MFP negotiation reaching the GLP-1 franchise in the IPAY 2027-2028 cycles.
Catalyst
July 31 pharma-tariff effective date; retatrutide Phase 3 readout and oral orforglipron launch metrics.
Scenarios · 12mo targets
$1,200.00 base
$1,450.00 bull — Orforglipron scales the oral market and retatrutide reads out strongly; the $27B domestic build turns the tariff into a moat.
$780.00 bear — Novo's oral franchise takes share, retatrutide disappoints, and IRA negotiation reaches the incretin class earlier than expected.
- VRTXVertex Pharmaceuticalsbiologyhold4.07%81flow acceleratingconf
Funder
Durable biology compounder: the cystic-fibrosis monopoly (Trikafta/Alyftrek) is a self-funding cash engine with 86.8% GM, no meaningful competition, and a fortress net-cash balance sheet — Vertex has never needed capital markets to fund its pipeline. Named flow: the $10B Crinetics acquisition (July 13) diversifies into endocrine disease with up to ~$5B of annual revenue potential and Palsonify app
Unwind
The CF franchise eroding faster than non-CF revenue can replace it; the Crinetics integration destroying value or pushing forward P/E toward the 30x invalidation line; a pipeline setback in the pain or endocrine programs.
Catalyst
Crinetics deal close and Palsonify launch metrics; next Journavx script-trend disclosure.
Scenarios · 12mo targets
$540.00 base
$640.00 bull — Crinetics adds a genuine second franchise, Journavx scales in non-opioid pain and Casgevy reimbursement broadens.
$380.00 bear — Crinetics dilutes FCF without near-term revenue, Journavx uptake disappoints and CF growth flattens.
- ARGXargenxbiologyhold3.79%69flow steadyconf
Funder
argenx — the Vyvgart/Vyvgart Hytrulo (efgartigimod) FcRn autoimmune franchise: a first-mover platform with a decade of indication runway, self-funded, commercial-stage, high-margin and net cash. Named flow: the FDA expanded gMG approval to all serotypes including seronegative (~18% TAM expansion), Sanofi's riliprubart Phase 3 CIDP failure removed the most credible near-term competitor, and the Jun
Unwind
Vyvgart revenue growth stalling; a pipeline indication failure in myositis or Sjogren's; a competitor FcRn entrant taking measurable share.
Catalyst
Myositis data readout and the next Vyvgart quarterly revenue print across indications.
Scenarios · 12mo targets
$850.00 base
$1,000.00 bull — Label expansion compounds across CIDP, myositis and Sjogren's with no credible FcRn competitor; revenue tracks to the $16B 2036 path.
$550.00 bear — Vyvgart growth plateaus in gMG, a pipeline indication fails, and a rival FcRn entrant reprices the franchise.
- LUNRcomputehold1.26%54flow steadyconf
Funder
Intuitive Machines — named government backlog is the whole thesis: NASA Near Space Network IDIQ ($4.82B ceiling, active), a $148.3M firm-fixed-price CLPS task order that broke the July 6 short thesis by providing a non-dilutive revenue floor, US Space Force Andromeda IDIQ ($6.2B ceiling), $428.9M of Q1 2026 SDA+NASA awards, and $1.1B of contracted backlog against ~$1B 2026 revenue guidance. Honest
Unwind
Backlog conversion stalling; the profitability pathway breaking; a NASA CLPS or SDA program funding cut; further insider selling. Resolve at the first non-stale run that permits a replacement open.
Catalyst
Next CLPS mission execution and the Q2 backlog-conversion print against $1B FY2026 guidance.
Scenarios · 12mo targets
$14.00 base
$22.00 bull — Backlog converts on schedule, the profitability pathway is confirmed and space-sector rotation off the SpaceX IPO premium lifts peers.
$5.00 bear — Mission slippage stalls backlog conversion, cash burn forces dilution and the 28.85% short base presses.
Warnings
- §2 cap re-applied after pillar tilt: MU
- §2 cap re-applied after pillar tilt: TSM
- §2 cap re-applied after pillar tilt: NVDA
- §2 cap re-applied after pillar tilt: ASML
- §2 cap re-applied after pillar tilt: AVGO
- §2 cap re-applied after pillar tilt: ANET
- §2 cap re-applied after pillar tilt: CCJ
- §2 cap re-applied after pillar tilt: GEV
- §2 cap re-applied after pillar tilt: LUNR
- hedge_floor: only 2/3 tail-risk names held (floor escalated: AI-load 35% > 30%) — open a gold/oil/diversified-commodity hedge (§5.3); uranium & power-gen do not count
- ledger stale (flagship_performance.json missing) — rebalance diffed against intent
Conviction-lock actions
No conviction-lock refusals or overrides this run.
Cost breakdown
- $0.1678
B1unknown
18 calls · in 35.0k · out 4.2k
- $0.0466
B2unknown
4 calls · in 4.9k · out 2.1k
- $0.0195
B4unknown
1 call · in 5.4k · out 2.8k
- $0.9073
Cunknown
1 call · in 2 · out 16.7k · cache-write 78.4k
- $0.0411
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1 call · in 2.3k · out 776 · cache-write 1.6k
Per-call cost computed from cost.js pricing constants (Opus 4.7, Sonnet 4.6, Haiku 4.5). Cache-read tokens billed at 10% of input. See Cost & ROI for the rolling 30-day ledger.