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Same work.
Smaller bill.
When you give Claude a big job, one very expensive expert does every little step itself. Scrooge hands that expert a team of affordable helpers. The work comes out the same. The bill comes out about a third the size. That's the whole idea. Here it is in pictures.
Nº 01 · the idea
You hired a
five-star chef.
He's washing
the dishes.
Think of Claude as a brilliant, expensive expert. Out of the box, that expert personally does everything: the important thinking, sure, but also the reading, the searching, the copying, the double-checking. All at expert prices.
Without Scrooge · one expert does it all
expensive by the minute
- Reads every file, start to finish expert price
- Hunts for things, one search at a time expert price
- Does the copy-paste-rename chores expert price
- Runs the checks and reads the results expert price
- Does the actual hard thinking expert price
only the gold dot needed the expert. you paid expert rates for all five.
With Scrooge · the expert gets a crew
big decisions only
- Helpers read the files, all at the same time helper price
- Helpers hunt for things, side by side helper price
- Helpers do the chores helper price
- A checker double-checks their work helper price
- The expert still does the hard thinking worth every penny
same job, same standard. the expensive minutes now go only where they matter. bonus: helpers work side by side, so the job often finishes sooner.
Nº 02 · your money
Where your
ten dollars goes.
Picture ten dollars of Claude doing a big job for you. Most of it isn't buying brilliance. It's buying chores at expert prices.
Today · every coin spent at expert prices
$10 of claude, left on its own
about seven of these coins paid for chores. one paid for the thinking that actually needed the expert.
the same job, scrooged
the chores got helper prices. the same $10 job now costs about $3.50. the dashed coins never leave your pocket.
honest estimate from claude's public price list. big jobs with lots of chores save the most; a one-line question saves nothing, and scrooge will tell you so.
one real example
A big project, both ways.
Say you ask Claude to go through a whole project, fix what's broken, and prove it works. A serious, multi-hour job.
Left on its own: about $33. Scrooged: about $10. You keep roughly $23, and you'd never spot which version the expert-only one was.
The same big job · estimated bill
expert does everything
expert + helpers
You keep $23
on this one job. estimates at claude's list prices.
God bless us, every one. Except the ones billing you.
no trust required
It shows you the receipt.
You don't have to take any of this on faith. Every time Scrooge finishes a job, it prints a little receipt: what the job would have cost, what it actually cost, and what you kept.
The numbers are honest estimates from Claude's public price list, and the receipt says so right on it. Watch them add up for a week.
Nº 03 · get more done
Same budget.
Five projects
instead of one.
Saving money is one way to look at it. Here's the other: the budget you already have suddenly goes a lot further.
What $50 of claude gets you
without scrooge · one big project, then you're out
with scrooge · five big projects on the same $50
real arithmetic, not a slogan: one big project runs about $33 wild or about $10 scrooged. fifty dollars covers one the first way, five the second.
yearly figures are illustrative, at claude's list prices, assuming roughly two-thirds of big-job spend stays in your pocket. your receipt keeps the real score.
Nº 04 · the fair question
"But won't cheaper
helpers do
worse work?"
They would, if anyone trusted them blindly. Nobody does. Three rules keep the quality exactly where it was.
Helpers only get chores
Helpers are only handed work with a clear right answer: find this, read that, change these. Anything that takes real judgment never goes to a helper in the first place.
Everything gets checked
No helper's work is taken on their word. A checker looks at the actual result, and if a helper gets something wrong twice, the job automatically moves up to a smarter brain.
The expert keeps the hard parts
The big decisions, the tricky problems, the things that would hurt to get wrong: those always go to the strongest brain available, thinking as hard as it can.
the part nobody expects
It's actually checked more.
Here's the funny thing about plain Claude: it grades its own homework. It does the work, then it checks the work, all in one head.
Scrooge splits those jobs up. The one who did the work is never the one who checks it. So the cheaper way isn't cutting corners. It added a second set of eyes.
- Hard thinking always stays on the strongest brain
- Helpers never make judgment calls
- Every result gets looked at by fresh eyes
- Mistakes bump the job up to a smarter brain, automatically
- And the receipt shows you the savings, every time
You wouldn't pay a surgeon to file your paperwork. Scrooge just applies that one piece of common sense to your AI, automatically, every time. the whole idea, one sentence
Nº 05 · and it's this simple
Not an app.
One magic word.
Scrooge isn't software you run or an account you manage. It's a small instruction file that teaches Claude Code this whole system. Set it up once, then it's just a word you type.
Get it
Ten dollars, once. Checkout takes a minute and lands you on a page that walks you through everything.
Drop it in
One file goes into one folder. The install page gives you the exact thing to copy and paste. About sixty seconds, no tech skills.
Type /scrooge
From then on, start any big job with that one word and Claude runs it the smart way: helpers, checks, expert, receipt.