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For founders & early teams

Ship AI features,
not surprise bills.

You are moving fast on not much runway. Qai gives you one API for text, image, and video at startup-friendly rates, with pay-as-you-go billing and hard per-key spend caps so a bad deploy cannot drain the bank. Build the feature, watch the meter, sleep at night.

The runway problem

AI bills are a black box

One viral day or one runaway loop and you are staring at a five-figure invoice you never saw coming.

Enterprise pricing assumes enterprise budgets

Minimums, seat fees, and annual commitments built for companies with a finance team, not a founder with a Stripe account.

Every tool wants its own contract

Text here, images there, video somewhere else - each with its own bill, its own SDK, and its own lock-in.

You need to move now

Procurement cycles and sales calls are time you do not have. You want a key and a doc, today.

What you can build

The AI features startups actually ship - all on one key, all metered per call.

01

Your MVP's AI feature

The chatbot, the summariser, the smart search that anchors your pitch deck. Wire it up with the OpenAI SDK you already know and ship this week.

Recommended: qai-flash while you iterate; qai-pro once it is in front of users.
Architecture
Your app → OpenAI SDK pointed at https://llm.quickcasa.ai/v1 → stream the response → ship
curl - point your existing SDK here
curl https://llm.quickcasa.ai/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $QAI_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "qai-flash",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
  }'
02

Content & SEO on a shoestring

Landing pages, blog posts, launch emails, app-store copy - the marketing you cannot afford to outsource yet, generated and edited in-house.

Recommended: qai-pro, then run the output through /v1/utilities/humanize-text.
Architecture
Brief → Qai /v1/chat/completions/v1/utilities/humanize-text → publish
03

Founder-as-ops automation

Triage support, tag leads, summarise calls, draft replies - the busywork stealing your build time, handed to a cheap model on a cron.

Recommended: qai-flash for classify and tag; qai-pro for drafting.
Architecture
Trigger (webhook or cron) → Qai /v1/chat/completions → write back to your tools
04

Images & video without a designer

Launch graphics, social creative, and demo b-roll, hosted on our CDN so you do not even stand up a storage bucket.

Recommended: qai-imagine-turbo for stills; qai-motion for clips.
Architecture
Prompt → /v1/images/generations or /v1/videos/generations with hostMedia: true → embed the URL

Pricing that respects your runway

The discount gets you in the door. These are the controls that keep the bill predictable once you are building - all real, all on by default.

Startup usage discount

Eligible startups get [DISCOUNT%] off standard per-token and per-image rates. [ELIGIBILITY - e.g. under 2 years old or under $[X] raised; confirm before launch.] Email us to claim it.

Pay-as-you-go, no minimums

No seat fees, no annual commitment, no floor. A slow month costs you next to nothing - you pay per call and nothing else.

Hard per-key spend caps

Set a daily budget per key. Hit the cap and that key stops - a runaway script or a viral spike cannot blow past the number you set.

Free sandbox to start

The qai-hello-world tier is free - 100 calls per key per day, no card - so you build and demo the whole thing before you spend a dollar.

Models that fit the job

qai-flash

Your default while iterating - cheap enough to call constantly without watching the meter.

qai-pro

The balanced tier for anything user-facing once the feature is real.

qai-imagine-turbo

Launch graphics and social creative at batch speed, hosted for you.

qai-hello-world

The free sandbox - prototype and demo before you put a card on file.

Questions, answered.

How do we get startup pricing?
Reach out at hi@quickcasa.ai with a quick line about your startup and we will apply the discounted usage rate to your account.
What stops us getting a surprise bill?
Per-key daily spend caps. Set the number, and when a key hits it that key stops - nothing keeps spending behind your back. Pair it with pay-as-you-go and there is no minimum to clear either.
Do we have to talk to sales?
No. Sign up, grab a key, read the docs, and ship. The startup discount is a quick email, not a procurement cycle.
Will we outgrow it?
No - it is the same API and models the bigger tiers use. Start cheap on qai-flash, move features to qai-pro or qai-max as they matter, and the pricing scales with you instead of resetting.

Build the feature. Watch the meter.

Start free, wire up one feature, and email us for the startup rate when you are ready to scale. No sales call required.