Revues Technologies · cost to serve · all figures CAD

What 6,000 locations actually cost

Built from production token telemetry, the source of the sync and summary jobs, AWS Cost Explorer, Vercel usage, and the RBC statements through 21 Aug 2026. At the current assumptions, 6,000 locations cost $12,335 a month, or $2.06 per location. The optimized AWS forecast is $241 a month for August.

Cost / location / mo
Gross margin
Total cost / month
Variable share

Where the OpenAI bill actually goes

Four call sites in review-management report tokens and are priced from their measured means; the three that report only call counts are modelled from prompt structure. Together those are cost to serve. What the statement holds beyond them is prospecting, frontend and development.

Pipeline — cost to serve
Actually billed
RBC statement, OpenAI API charges only
Prospecting, frontend & dev
Call siteModelCalls / 30d$ / callMonthlyTokens

Prospecting spend, held separately

revues-stats analyses prospect locations to produce marketing reports. It scales with sales effort, not with customers, so it is customer acquisition cost and is excluded from every per-location figure on this page.

LineCAD / monthBehaviourNote

Cost and revenue as locations scale

Monthly run-rate in CAD. Fixed platform spend is amortised across the estate, so the cost line flattens while revenue stays linear.

Total cost Revenue

Where the money goes

Monthly cost composition at four scale points. Watch which band grows — that is the one worth engineering against.

Per-location monthly breakdown

Average monthly cost per location at the modelled scale, in CAD.

ComponentBehaviour$ / loc / moShareAt scale / mo

What each vendor actually charges for

Plan terms checked against current published pricing. The column that matters is what the bill is indexed to — that is what grows at 6,000.

VendorPlanUSD / moBilled againstHeadroom today

Two statements, side by side

RBC Business Mastercard, two consecutive statements. OpenAI is a mixed delivery and acquisition line; its current-period allocation is reconciled above.

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