What is the impetus to make money or sustain itself? How do I know this isn't another tool that will transition to a revenue extraction model down the line?
We only want people to pay for Crystal if they feel they get outsized value out of it; we’d never ask you to pay just to make a few searches.
That being said, each query makes a few LLM calls to make sure we’re returning the most relevant datasets, which costs money. So at some point we would expect power users to contribute, which seems reasonable.
Ultimately our goal is to democratize access to this data. So the cost would never be more than a nominal amount
