The Sovereign Stack · Cyber Coastlines

Owned Media & Commerce

Ghost Pro

Publishing · Membership · CMS

$25/mo

Storefront, newsletter, membership tiers, and course delivery. Everything your audience touches lives on your domain. Zero revenue cut. Your content, your list, your data.

Stripe

Commerce · Payments

2.9% + 30¢

All transactions — subscriptions, one-time purchases, module bundles, digital downloads. No monthly fee. No marketplace cut. Only costs when revenue flows.

Vault & Intelligence Layer

Obsidian

Raw Vault · Local + Encrypted Sync

$4/mo

Your IP lives here. Local on your MacBook — primary copy. Obsidian Sync adds end-to-end encrypted cross-device backup. Nobody at Obsidian can read your content.

LlamaIndex

RAG Ingestion · Retrieval

Free

Open source. Ingests Obsidian content, chunks it, generates embeddings, manages retrieval. The librarian between your raw IP and the intelligence layer.

Supabase

Vector Store · Database

$15–25/mo

Hosts the RAG intelligence layer — the queryable, embedded version of your vault.

⚑ Consultant Decision Required Before Sprint

Option A — Managed Supabase · $25/mo · faster setup, solid privacy on paid tier. Option B — Self-hosted VPS (Hetzner) · ~$15/mo · full sovereignty, no third-party cloud touches the vault. Evaluate and bring your recommendation before arrival.

Claude API

AI Reasoning Engine

~$60/mo

Reasons exclusively inside the vault. Never free-ranges. Anthropic does not train on API data by default — your IP stays yours. Powers all five E-Suite agents.

Cloudflare

DNS · CDN · Security

Free

Sits in front of everything. DNS for all six ecosystem domains, CDN acceleration, and security layer. Protects vault access regardless of hosting decision.

Automation & E-Suite

Lindy

Agentic Automation · E-Suite

$50/mo

All five E-Suite agents live here — Architect, Curator, Navigator, Operator, Analyst. Intake, follow-up, publishing triggers, access granting, workflow execution. Pro tier from day one.

Accounting & Finance

Wave

Accounting · Receipts · Tax

Free

Connected to Stripe. Every transaction auto-categorized. Receipts generated automatically. Lindy Operator triggers Wave on every Stripe event. Upgrades to Puzzle at month 5–6.

Content Production & Operations

Descript

Audio · Video · Transcription

$24/mo

Every recording becomes a transcript becomes vault content becomes multiple assets. One input, multiple outputs. Paid from day one — free tier is insufficient for production cadence.

Fathom

Analytics · Privacy-First

$14/mo

How your audience moves through your property. No third-party tracking. No cookie banners. No data feeding ad networks. Replaces Google Analytics sitewide.

Notion

Internal Ops · SOPs

Free

Internal only. Sprint planning, SOPs, documentation. Never customer-facing. IP and methodology belongs in Obsidian — not here.

GitHub

Version Control

Free

Everything built during the sprint lives here. All repos set to private — non-negotiable. Nothing important exists only in memory.

Estimated Monthly Total

~$202

Budget ceiling · $400/mo

// Stripe scales with revenue only
// Supabase range pending consultant decision
// Claude API at moderate E-Suite usage
// Wave upgrades to Puzzle at month 5–6

What Flexes · What Doesn't

Non-Negotiable

Ghost as owned media hub — audience stays on our domain

Stripe as commerce — no marketplace takes a cut

Obsidian as local vault — IP stays off third-party clouds

All GitHub repos set to private

Claude API not consumer tier — no training on our data

Audience never routed off our domain

Open to Consultant

LlamaIndex → alternative RAG framework

Supabase → Pinecone or Weaviate

Managed → Self-hosted VPS

Lindy → alternative agentic platform

Descript → alternative with same pipeline

Wave → alternative with clean Stripe sync