What this fleet can sell

The fleet costs money to run and every capability below is already built for another reason. This page is the list of what Stado could charge for, what exists today for each one, and what is missing — so a decision about monetization is made against the command surface rather than against a guess. It promises no revenue and sets no retail prices. Those are commercial decisions; recorded provider costs are not customer sale prices.

Four ways of charging appear here, and they are not interchangeable: an hour of hardware, a token of model output, a run with a receipt, and a subscription for operating something. The same GPU is worth a different amount under the first two.

Tokens from our own card

stado inference serves an OpenAI-compatible endpoint from a digest-pinned vLLM container on a registered GPU host, Brama routes to it under a logical alias, and stado web declare and stado web route are how a hostname reaches the public internet (inference, web hosting). --gpu-mode yieldable gives the board back to the fleet's own queued work, so selling tokens does not mean losing the card.

What is missing is a public entrance for that endpoint — deployments publish on a Tailscale address by design — a model document with prices and declared throughput for whoever resells it, rate limits returned as early refusals rather than a queue, and a billing account.

Hours of an idle GPU

stado market auto-list --provider vast lists the box on the Vast.ai marketplace after the queue has been idle for its window and withdraws the offer the moment our own work appears (renting our idle GPU). This is the only route the product performs end to end today; it is missing the credential and nothing else. It is also the least it can earn per hour of that card, because it sells the hardware rather than the work.

Operating somebody else's fleet

A customer brings their own machines or their own cloud account and Stado runs the queue, the placements, the deliveries, the declared repairs and the evidence: stado fleet enroll, stado fleet invite, stado service deploy, stado repair, stado release (add your machine, operations). The private marketplace repository already names this as the first commercial route, and requires that the provider's cost and the management fee stay separately visible. Charged per host, per month.

macOS builds, signing and updates

A Mac is the scarce machine. Stado installs and reconciles the publisher runner with stado runner install --profile publisher, the shared workflow signs with Developer ID, notarizes, staples and publishes a Sparkle appcast (desktop publisher and Developer ID). Charged per release, or as a subscription per repository whose updates we carry.

An interactive session at the GPU

stado stream provisions a display session on a host and streams it to a Moonlight client (stream). It sells what a container marketplace cannot: somebody working by hand on a board they do not own. Charged per hour.

Browser work with a receipt

Weles executes an authorized browser workflow and emits a signed receipt that weles-client verifies independently; Stado places the work and carries the artifacts (workloads). The product here is the proof that the run happened, not the automation. Charged per run.

Hosting releases and updates

The object plane holds immutable, signed releases with channels, promotion and rollback, and stado web and stado dns put a product on the internet (release, primitives/object-store). Charged as a subscription for a product whose updates we host.

Disposable isolated environments

stado scratch leases a disposable target on a registered host and destroys it when the run ends (scratch targets). Charged per hour or per run, for somebody who needs a clean machine for one build.

Somebody else's cloud bill

stado cost allocation, stado cost forecast, stado cost savings and stado billing read attributed workload cost and what the providers themselves report, and the autonomy policy's budgets block new cloud placement before the money is spent (costs, autonomy). Charged as a share of the measured saving, or a fixed monthly fee.

Provider quotes are not sale prices

stado cost prices --json reads the recorded provider book. stado cost quote --json -- JOB_ID... matches jobs to the claiming worker's identity, scoped inventory and complete hourly quotes. local@HOST identifies agent transport, including cloud workers; it cannot select local pricing by itself. Unknown, ambiguous or unsupported observations retain their refusal rather than becoming free capacity or a guessed machine price.

Desktop exposes the same read-only book and per-job report under Earning → Provider prices, including source errors, worker identity and the complete command receipt. Neither a quote nor that screen approves direct resale, customer settlement, deposits or payouts. See Costs for matching and real qualification requirements.

What the fleet earns today

Nothing. The Vast.ai route is provisioned with no credential, the inference endpoint is reachable only on the tailnet, and every other route above is a capability that has never been sold. stado market readiness --provider vast is the only command that reports an earning state, and it reports not provisioned.