August 5, 2026 · Joy

About 10× — saying the token number honestly

Lead with the concrete problem: people want to run more agents, and without a control layer the machine pays for it — duplicated context, terminal pile-up, RAM pressure, and crashes that force full re-runs.

Token savings are a consequence of that control, not the whole product story. In founder testing, shaped context and fewer wasted full reruns produced about 10× token improvement. Say “about 10×,” show your own before/after, and keep the number secondary to calm hardware and recoverable state.

Metering labels

JoyMux shows token use when it can:

• Reported — harness or provider supplied the usage number.
• Estimated — Cursor-class IDEs, from JoyMux-visible I/O only. This is normal engineering estimation, not a copy of your Cursor cloud bill.
• Not reported — no observable signal yet (temporary). We do not block estimation forever.

We never invent equality with a private Profile. Numbers we show are evidence, not decoration.