Twelve half-live projects, one person, and a single AI plan already on the credit card. The problem was never ambition — it was that every serious agent run used to start with a billing decision.
Twelve projects means twelve backlogs, and the useful work — the overnight refactor, the dependency sweep, the test backfill — is exactly the work that runs long. On a metered API that's the work you keep deciding not to do, because a two-hour agent job has a price tag attached and you're the one who pays it.
Connecting an existing plan changed the calculus rather than the tooling. The same subscription that was answering questions in a chat window now runs the agents, in Cortev's cloud, against all twelve repos. Nothing new to buy, so the decision to run a long job stopped being a decision at all.
The compounding win isn't a single heroic refactor — it's that maintenance finally happens on the eleven projects that aren't today's favourite. Watchers run around the clock, agents pick up the boring sweeps, and the projects you aren't touching this month stop quietly decaying.
Connect the account you already have, point Cortev at your repos, and let it run while you're somewhere else.
An illustrative scenario of how Cortev is used — a composite, not a named customer, and the figures above are examples rather than audited results. Your own savings depend on your usage and your plan's fair-use limits.