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NicNac Systems · Founded 2026 · Lineage since 1997

Nic Patterson and Beam at the holographic table in the NicNac lab — the master cinematic, an original artwork Living scene · Footage in production
The lab — Nic and Beam at the holographic table · Original artwork · Scene footage for this slot is in production
The Light Line
NicNacParse vs. LlamaParse — the full study, published whole, the behind rows includedProof scorecard · Oct 20, 2026 MOS-10 — Mosaic’s first-guest sequence, run once on a demo tenantFiled definition · Oct 21, 2026 Archagent — a word coined, defined, and publishednicnacsystems.com/blog/archagent · Oct 27, 2026 The price book, amended again — one ladder of six rungs: $99, $299, $499, $999, $2,499, $9,999 a month — and at $999 we begin operating it with youThe ratified book · Oct 28, 2026 550 workflow definitions now run end-to-end in the replication harness — the registry corpus completeWorkflow-factory registry · Oct 28, 2026 NicNac Media — first episodes in production; nothing publishes unpassedThe newsroom · Oct 2026

Real headlines only — every item is drawn from the estate’s filed record, with its source and date. This line is the estate’s own news until the daily World Signal files into it.

Begin As Yourself

Tell the room who’s here.Watch it rearrange.

This is the whole idea of NicNac, working in miniature on this page: the experience is configured around the person. Choose a path and the scenes, the sample profile, the workflows, and the invitation below all re-face themselves toward you — and the page remembers your choice as you travel.

Beam: “Tell the room who’s here — I’ll put the work that gives your hours back first, and move everything else behind it.”

A concept demonstration: this page adapts the way Beam will. Your choice lives only in this visit, in your browser — nothing is sent anywhere. Change it any time; the room re-faces itself again.

The Idea

Built around a person.Then around their world.

Beam — the light in the logo, present in every scene

Human Augmentation is the discipline of building technology around a person so the person becomes more capable — not less necessary. Most software asks you to adapt to it. NicNac starts from the other end: your work, your people, your way — and builds the technology around that.

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The person

One person, more capable — their calls answered, their calendar kept, their work followed up.

02

The family

The same care at home scale: reminders, bookings, and follow-through that hold a household together.

03

The neighborhood

Local businesses and congregations answering every person who reaches for them — no one left unanswered.

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The world

Person to family, neighborhood to street, city, county, state, nation, continent, and world — tree by tree.

Beam: “Built around a person first: your calls answered, your calendar kept, your follow-ups landed — your hours go to your work, not your admin.”

What Beam Does For You

Not features.What changes for you.

Software lists features. A host shows you what your day feels like. Five things Beam does — watch him do every one.

Beam: “Five jobs I do all day — answering, booking, chasing invoices, drafting, remembering. Don’t take the list’s word for it: every one is demonstrated below.”

Beam in a suit at a glass desk with a laptop — answering the business's world
On your path

Everyone who reaches for you gets an answer.

After hours, mid-lesson, mid-service — the call is answered, the question heard, the appointment booked into your real calendar. No one who reached for your business is left talking to a machine that shrugs.

After-Hours Answer & Book — one of the four product lines, in the living room below.

On your path

You never have to tell us twice.

Your projects, your people, your preferences — held in a record you can open, with the source of every entry attached. Beam greets you inside your actual situation, not at a blank chat window. Across the board, AI systems forget. This one is built to remember — carefully, and with your hand on the record.

Your Essence — the profile, opened in the next scene.

Beam in a graduation cap with a learning tablet, pointing up — the idea, remembered
Beam celebrating, halo and wings — the moment the owed answer lands

The answer someone is owed actually arrives.

A promise made on Tuesday is still on the record on Friday — assembled from filed facts, drafted for your approval, sent, and closed. And if it ever can’t be ready in time, an honest note goes instead, naming the new time plainly. Silence is not an option.

Watch it run — the owed-answer workflow, played inside the profile below.

On your path

Words, images, books, and film — made with you.

Generation is NicNac’s workshop: your book, your site, your film — built in your voice and approved by your hand at every gate. Nothing ships dressed as yours that you didn’t write or approve.

The publishing pipeline, played step by step below.

Beam with spectacles, writing at a library desk under a brass lamp
Beam conducting, baton raised — teaching the way a musician learns
On your path

Shown the way your mind keeps it.

The Patterson Arts Method — learn, process, internalize, teach — carried from the music studio into every subject. New things arrive in your strongest mode, at your pace, pitched at your next growth edge. One learner’s path never looks like another’s, because it isn’t.

How the Essence teaches — inside the profile, next.

Your Essence · The Profile

Everyone’s experience is different.Here is the machinery of different.

Beam keeps a living record of each person in five faculties — Memory, Soul, Heart, Spirit, and Spark. Not a dossier: a record you can open, correct, and retract, where every entry carries its source, and nothing enters it unsourced. Meet Jordan — a sample profile, drawn so you can watch it work.

Sample profile · Concept demonstration
Beam's portrait — Jordan's host

Jordan

Teaches piano, runs a small studio, and is writing a book about it. Jordan is not a real customer — the record-keeping is the real design.

Open a faculty. Each one holds a different kind of truth about Jordan, and each one changes what Jordan’s room does next.

“I hold Jordan’s record the way a good host holds a guest’s coat — carefully, in the open, and only ever handed back to Jordan.”

Memory is what happened — the sourced ledger: facts, preferences, projects, each entry dated and correctable, so the estate never has to ask twice and never has to guess.

You told us

Teaches piano to 23 students at a studio in Ohio.

You chose

Written briefs over calls; evenings are teaching hours, not meeting hours.

Observed outcome

Manuscript The Practice Room — chapter 4 delivered; chapter 5 owed Friday.

Jordan’s room, with Memory open

Sample

How the experience changes

“Good morning. Chapter 5 is the one thing owed this week — here is your filed outline, and Friday’s slot is held.”

Beam opens inside Jordan’s actual week, because Memory holds the project’s state with its source. Nothing re-asked; nothing re-generated.

The morning arrival — a person's room, ready before they are — an original cinematic plate Living scene · Footage in production
The morning arrival — the room ready before the person is · Original artwork · Scene footage for this slot is in production

Workflows · Visualized In The Profile

Watch the work move.Inside the profile, not beside it.

A workflow at NicNac is not a diagram in a brochure — it runs inside a person’s record, from their facts, under their approval. Press play. Each player below animates a filed workflow definition, step for step as written.

Beam: “Press play and watch me do the job — real filed definitions, step for step, your approval at every gate. The hours each one returns are counted in the Hours Back scene below.”

Concept demonstration · Sample data · Real filed workflows

From Jordan’s profile
Sample data · the workflow is real, and filed

The owed answer, delivered

Someone is owed an answer, with a promised time. This is the follow-through that makes good on it — the desk’s own pattern, run inside Jordan’s record.

Workflow NCM-54 · Filed definition
1

The promise is recorded

2

Assembled from filed facts

3

Drafted for your approval

4

Sent under the desk rules

5

Closed on the record

Ready

Press play and watch a promise keep itself — with Jordan’s hand on the one step that matters.

Filed definition NCM-54 · Steps as written · Nothing is sent from this page

From Jordan’s profile
Sample data · the Author OS pipeline, as filed

A book, carried through

Publishing is NicNac’s flagship workflow — the one with paying customers. A manuscript moves through real gates, and the author approves at every one.

Author OS · AUT-06 → AUT-20 → AUT-21
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Manuscript received

2

Readiness verdict, with evidence

3

The developmental gate

4

Copyedit & proof

5

Returned for the final read

Ready

Press play — and notice where the pipeline stops. Every gate waits for the author.

Filed definitions AUT-06, AUT-20, AUT-21 · Steps as written · Nothing is sent from this page

Mosaic
The Mosaic door
A separate brand, with its own face · Beam works underneath — he never fronts Mosaic

A first guest, welcomed

Mosaic is the door built for churches — a tool in service to the church, whose own people do the welcoming. The system helps the church remember; the warmth stays human.

Workflow MOS-10 · Filed definition · Run once on a demo tenant, recorded
1

A guest is recorded

2

Thank-you drafted, in the church’s voice

3

The pastor’s note — space left blank

4

One gentle invitation back

5

The window closes honestly

Ready

Press play. Watch for the empty space in step three — it is the most important part of the design.

Filed definition MOS-10 · Tested on a demo tenant (October 21, 2026) — honestly not yet called ready · Nothing is sent from this page

Two more, running as living diagrams

These two start on their own when they reach you — watch a light travel the steps. The Sunday Flow is a filed workflow-component definition; the quote-to-cash chain is six invoice workflows that have run end-to-end in the replication harness. Nothing is sent or charged from this page.

Mosaic
The Mosaic door
Sunday Flow · a filed workflow component · Beam underneath — he never fronts Mosaic

Sunday Flow — one Sunday, run as one job

Plan, schedule volunteers, check in, follow up — seven of the filed component’s steps, in order. The plan itself waits at Gate 1 for the pastor’s approval before anything moves.

Component 05 · Sunday Flow · Definition filed — not yet tested
1

The plan is drafted

2

The Sunday checklist

3

People are assigned

4

Confirmations are chased

5

Check-in runs

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First-Guest 48 intake

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The media loop is published

Ready

This one starts itself when it reaches you. Watch the light travel — and watch it stop at Gate 1, where the plan waits for a person.

Filed component definition · Steps as written · Not yet tested · Nothing is sent from this page

From the invoice family
Six filed workflows, chained · run end-to-end in the replication harness

Quote to cash — the chase that doesn’t die

INV-12 → INV-14 → INV-15 → INV-16 → INV-18 → INV-19, exactly as filed. The invoice leaves only when a person approves the issue — that gate is INV-15’s own trigger.

INV family · Harness Batch 1 · Oct 28, 2026
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INV-12 · The wiring

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INV-14 · The draft

3

INV-15 · The issue

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INV-16 · The reminder

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INV-18 · The recovery

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INV-19 · The reconciliation

Ready

This one starts itself when it reaches you. Watch the light travel — and watch it stop at step three, where the invoice waits for a person’s approval.

Filed definitions INV-12…19 · Run in the harness — not yet called ready · Nothing is charged from this page

Hours Back

Don’t just meet Beam.Watch him give your hours back.

Presence is not the product — the work is. Choose your path and Beam performs one real filed workflow, step for step, stopping where the filed definition stops for a person’s approval. The return is counted from filed figures only: where a workflow’s filed definition carries no time figure, the frame shows the work and says so.

Beam at work — for you

Pick a path; the demonstration re-faces itself, like everything else here.

Answer, book, confirm — the after-hours call

The Quartet

Four product lines.One system, working together.

This is the lab — one room, four stations, and Beam on the floor. Choose a product and watch the room re-face itself: the station lights, the light-flow reroutes, Beam turns his attention — and the room opens in place. Nothing here is wallpaper.

Beam: “Four crafts, one room: documents read, phones answered, invoices chased, your name found. Choose a station and watch that job done.”

The NicNac services lab — four workstations around the holographic table, an original cinematic plate

The services lab · An original artwork, layered and lit — the room reconfigures when you choose a station

The room · All four stations

One room, four crafts, one Beam

Parse reads documents. Answer & Book keeps the phones. Invoice runs the chase. Visibility makes sure the AI age can find you. Choose a card below — the station lights, and Beam turns to it.

NicNacParse

Document parsing that turns PDFs and scanned documents into clean markdown, running on NicNac's own machines. The subject of our one published head-to-head study, below.

Open NicNacParse

After-Hours Answer & Book

An AI receptionist service that answers a small business's phones after hours and books appointments directly into its calendar.

Open Answer & Book

NicNacInvoice

Managed invoicing for small service businesses — invoices issued, followed up, and reconciled, so the chase runs itself.

Open NicNacInvoice

NicNac AI Visibility

An audit and presence service that measures whether AI answer engines name, cite, and recommend a business when customers ask who to hire — and then fixes what the audit finds.

Open AI Visibility

Why People Trust This

Trust is not a claim here.It is a paper trail.

Three kinds of evidence, all checkable: the person behind it, the customers already in it, and a design that protects you on purpose.

Beam: “Don’t trust the adjectives — check the paper trail in this scene. Everything claimed here, you can verify before you pay.”

The person

Carnegie Hall debut — January 2024Weill Recital Hall, New York

Harvard University graduate studentI/O Psychology — in progress

TEDxEustis — “Unravel”His talk, on the record

Featured on LinkedIn’s Ask the ExpertNamed by the platform

Nic Patterson founded NicNac Systems in 2026, on a lineage that began as NicNac Design in 1997 — and on a decade teaching music to more than 400 men inside a prison, before the Carnegie Hall stage. The creed the estate runs on: work that stands on its own — correct, profitable, beautiful, and harming no one.

The customers

Debi came to NicNac Publishing to make her book real — her covers are being made here, now.

Bette is publishing her books with NicNac as the first Author OS tester — a working author, in the workflow you just watched, with her media outreach on the record and her hand on every gate.

And three more people are waiting to make their books. Publishing is the flagship workflow because it is the one already carrying real people’s work.

“No revenue figures are posted here, in either direction. That is a rule of this house — outcomes you can check, not numbers you can’t.”

The design protects you

  • Your record holds no biometric data — ever. Recognition is by your seat, your own confirmations, and your relationship record. No face-prints, nothing a photograph could spoof.
  • Every memory carries its source — told, chosen, confirmed, or observed — and anything merely inferred waits in a proposal queue until you confirm it.
  • You can see all of it, correct all of it, retract all of it. Anything the system believes that you cannot see in your own room does not exist.
  • People and brands never bleed into each other. Your preferences travel only where you let them; your context stays yours.
  • Human oversight on every system — governed by five action classes (CLASS_A_ROUTINE, CLASS_B_BOOKING, CLASS_C_FOLLOWUP, CLASS_D_FINANCIAL_HARD_GATE, and CLASS_E_MOSAIC_PASTOR_GATE) across five sovereign routing modes (Local, Hybrid, Cloud, Offline, and Air-Gapped). Beam says so when a question needs a person, instead of guessing.
Nic Patterson playing a grand piano in warm concert light, Beam floating beside him — an original artwork Living scene · Footage in production
The pianist — Nic at the grand piano, Beam beside him · Original artwork · Scene footage for this slot is in production

Proof · Measured, not claimed

We measure. We publish.All of it.

One study is published. The rest sit in labelled, empty slots until they are measured. Wins, ties, and the rows where we are still behind — printed on the same page, in the same type size.

Beam: “One study, published whole: documents into clean text at $0 a page, 21 of 21 scored checks — including the rows where we’re behind. The empty slots stay empty until they’re measured.”

Live · Study 01 · Measured study · Published in full · October 20, 2026

NicNacParse vs. LlamaParse

Seven document classes — book, flyer, multi-column, form, scan, sheet music, long report. Criteria written before either system ran. One fixed mechanical scorer for both.

21/21

NicNacParse — scored checks passed, at $0 per page on our own machines.

20/21

LlamaParse — scored checks passed, at 10 credits per page.

Parity

Scan accuracy, character-error rate: NicNacParse 0.87% · LlamaParse 0.69% — parity on accuracy, per the signed verdict.

Where they're still better

LlamaParse is still ahead on image descriptions (it describes images; NicNacParse marks their presence and size), on heavy-scan speed (about 68 s/page for NicNacParse, about 2.4 s/page for LlamaParse), and on wrapped-cell tables (LlamaParse merges wrapped cells; NicNacParse can split them). Each gap carries a closing plan on the full scorecard.

Read the full published scorecard

Study 02 · Scheduled

NicNacRouter vs. rented API stacks

Study scheduled — no result yet. Empty slot · No numbers yet.

Study 03 · Scheduled

NicNacBook vs. rented schedulers

Study scheduled — no result yet. Empty slot · No numbers yet.

Methodology: criteria written before any run · one fixed mechanical scorer for both systems · whole results published, including the rows marked Behind. Full study: nicnacsystems.com/proof/ — fetched and quoted 2026-10-27 for this staged build.

The Shelf · Work, Developing

Nothing is finished
until it develops.

Work in progress, shown as it is — developing in front of you, not announced after the fact. Every label below is the piece’s real state, from the estate’s filed record.

Beam in his living room, waving over the glowing table — the world on one screen
Beam’s living room — the /alive/ proof. Beam animated from the original poses, talking, grounded in filed facts. Live · Staged
The NicNac Media studio scene
NicNac Media EP001. Under the reformed gate — no full render proceeds until the proof passes the founder’s eye. In production
Beam at the welcome counter, waving — the answering service, warm
The warm welcome — After-Hours Answer & Book. Your phones answered in your name, after hours. Its product door is live; the operated service opens with the estate. Door live
Beam, the cinematic master
Scene footage for the living slots. The ComfyUI bench turns these filed plates into moving footage. In production

Complete · Integrated · One Engine

Many doors.One house, one engine, one Beam.

Every brand below stands on its own — its own face, voice, and customers — and every one runs on the same engine underneath: the same record, the same workflows, the same host. That is what complete yet integrated means here.

Beam: “Many doors, one house: whichever you enter, the same Beam answers, books, and remembers for you — and under Mosaic I work without ever fronting it.”

Beam — the host of every NicNac door

The engine room. Beam hosts every NicNac door — and underneath Mosaic he works without ever fronting it. Innovation, on the record: the Archagent — a term NicNac coined and published, for the conductor tier of a subagentic workforce — and 9,143 workflow definitions on file — 40 tabletop- and single-run-tested, 550 now run end-to-end in the replication harness, and not one called ready before its time.

Beam in a hardhat with a tool belt, thumbs up — the maker's bench

Works with the tools you already own Force chartered · Map in production

NicNac is being built to meet people at their own benches: 3D printers, consumer print-and-cut devices — Cricut named among them — and robotics. The posture is alliance first: official programs and open file formats where they exist, and honest bridges into the software people already use — your files, your machines, through the vendor’s own front door. A dedicated agentic force was chartered for exactly this tonight — fabrication, print, and robotics — and its compatibility map is in production now. Nothing here is claimed as a shipped integration; when a bridge is real, it will be named here with its evidence.

The warm front office — answering and booking, in golden light — an original cinematic plate Living scene · Footage in production
The front office, warm — answering and booking in golden light · Original artwork · Scene footage for this slot is in production

NicNac Media

A real newscast.Every day.

Not a content feed — a newsroom. Every day, in about twelve minutes: what actually happened in AI, what NicNac is building in public, and one human note to close. Researched, written, and produced by the estate’s own seats, under the same rule as everything here: filed facts, named sources, nothing announced that hasn’t been verified.

Beam: “A real newscast, every day — Maya and Ellis host it, reporting the help as it lands, not as it’s promised.”

Nic and Beam at the holographic table in the bright NicNac lab — the newsroom's home scene

The rundown, every day

World Signal — the day’s significant AI developments, with sources and dates named, and claims labeled as claims until they’re verified. The Build — one NicNac item, building in public, with Beam reporting from inside the machine. The Human Note — a short closing reflection tying the day to a person.

Hosted by Maya and Ellis — AI voices, disclosed in every episode’s notes and in a spoken end credit. No opening disclaimer theatre; just the truth, on the record.

First episodes are in production now — nothing publishes that hasn’t been watched, listened to, and passed frame by frame.

The NicNac channel Hear about it first — start above

The Complete List Of Services

Everything, on one page.Led by the $99 rhythm.

Nic’s structuring rhythm: each at $99 — stack it on. Line after line enters at $99, and the lines stack into one operating whole. Where a line’s book figure is different, its true figure stands. Where no figure has been ratified, the line says so — no invented numbers, anywhere.

Beam: “Every service we file, on one page — each one a job I take off your week. If a figure isn’t ratified, the line says so instead of inventing one.”

Enter at $49

CORE

The answering + virtual-assistant core — $49/mo for your first 3 months, then $99/mo for the rest of your first year, stepping to the standard $299 at month 13 and $499 at month 25, disclosed before you sign.

Sponsor One Seat

Underwrite a Community Seat for a church or community organization — $249, first month. The payer changes; the price never does.

AI Visibility Snapshot

Whether AI answer engines name, cite, and recommend your business today — $99, one-time.

Generation — Solo

One-time creation work — words, images, a page — $99, one-time. The workshop’s first rung.

The ladder & the operated line

Growth

The standard rate — $299/mo: everything in CORE, with 1,500 included minutes, up to 3 numbers and 2 locations, 3 seats, and outbound confirmation and quote-follow-up calls.

Studio

The self-serve ceiling — $499/mo: everything in Growth, 2,500 included minutes, up to 5 numbers and 3 locations, 5 seats, the dispatch board and no-show rescue — for the multi-location business that still runs its own system.

Operated

The next level begins — $999/mo: everything in Studio, and NicNac operates it with you — a dedicated build and knowledge base we create and maintain, 4,000 included minutes, up to 25 seats and 5 locations, a named human escalation path, and a monthly performance report. The difference is not size; it is who runs the system.

Operated Complete

The operated line completed — $2,499/mo, by agreement: the complete operated front office across every location of one ownership — up to five — one knowledge base, per-location scripts, a named operations lead, and SLA reporting. The most we offer a small or mid-size business. Flat; nothing metered.

Enterprise Operated

Enterprise, operated — $9,999/mo, by agreement: multi-entity operation with your own systems connected and operated by NicNac, a dedicated operations team, and the local-only option — your estate kept current by signed update packs. Above this rung, custom by agreement.

Generation — Studio · Business · Enterprise

One-time projects: $299 · $799 · from $1,999. Books, sites, and film, gated by your approval at every stage.

Custom Operating App

Your whole operation on the layer — assembled from the lines on this page. No separate sticker: scope and price confirmed in writing before billing.

One-time doors

NicNacParse — First Document

One document returned as clean, structured text — $25, one-time. The pipeline behind the published study, above.

Open NicNacParse

NicNacInvoice — Managed Invoicing

Your invoice template, follow-up reminders, and reconciliation cadence, configured end to end with $0 foundation, build, or setup fee under your monthly service tier ($99 / $299 / $499 / $999 per month by need).

Open NicNacInvoice

NicNac Author Page Sprint

One working author page — bio, books, speaking, contact — $149, one-time. Publishing’s front door.

NicNac One-Page Launch

One page, launched properly — $249, one-time.

Author OS — the full line

Presence, Engine, and House tiers are filed for authors who go further — figures confirmed in writing before anything is billed. The Sprint is the door; the pipeline you watched is the house.

The lines, whole

Documents & Money

NicNacParse and NicNacInvoice as standing services, and the Essentials configuration that stacks them. Entry points above; standing figures confirmed in writing before billing.

Visibility & Paid Growth

AI Visibility beyond the Snapshot, and NicNac AI Advertising. Filed honestly: no advertising campaign has run yet — the first two through the pipeline are NicNac’s own. Pricing confirmed before billing; ad spend is always the client’s, passed through at cost.

NicNacConnect & NicNacMeet

The unified inbox and the hosted meeting room — components of an engagement, live as surfaces, with no separate price filed. Meet is at /meet/.

The Personal Line

A person’s own operating layer — priced at business prices, because the work is the same work. Answer — Personal and the Daily Call are filed; the Daily Call is a gated simulation today, its pricing deliberately unset.

Nic Patterson Music/Studio

Concert bookings, recording studio, and teaching — priced in the conversation, with a deposit on every booking. The Studio’s own door is in the map above.

Confetti

Celebration, group greeting, video/audio continuity, and accessible milestone packages — preserving every voice and memory across life’s milestones.

The Hearth · NicNac OS

Chartered

The Hearth is the continuous workspace room for the assessment-first operating system, on NicNac GPU configurations and in an installed-OS form. In design — no price filed, and none invented.

Mosaic
Mosaic — the church line, under its own book
Mosaic’s prices are Mosaic’s — the ladder lives and sells on the Mosaic door

For churches: $249 · $499 · $749 · $999 per month (Seed · Community · Growth · Flourish) — Mosaic’s own ratified ladder, exempt from the NicNac rhythm and the anniversary step. Every church starts at $249 a month; a sponsor may pay on a church’s behalf — the payer changes, the price does not. Mosaic’s eight ruled default workflows — Set in Order, Songkeeper, The Sunday Packet, Words on the Wall, Carry It Home, The Worktable, Set in Place, and Light for the Week — are mapped on Mosaic’s own door, in Mosaic’s own voice.

Enter the Mosaic door

The Package Table

Watch a package assemble.

CORE is not a paragraph — it is parts, and here they come together in front of you. These are the filed contents of the plan, word for word from the book.

Beam: “Eight parts, one job: your phones answered and your admin carried. Watch them land — the price card left standing is the whole cost.”

AnsweringEvery call, in your name
BookingConfirmations & reminders, in your calendar
Message takingWith instant notification
Daily digestA daily digest of it all
Inbox triageDrafts ready for you
Follow-upReminders that land
Review requestsAsked at the right moment
600 minutes600 voice minutes a month

CORE — assembled

$49 a month for your first 3 months, then $99 a month for the rest of your first year. From month 13, $299 a month; from month 25, $499 a month. We tell you before every change, and you can cancel before it does. The full ladder is directly below.

Pricing · Ratified October 26, 2026 · Amended October 27, 2026 · Amended October 28, 2026

Start with the experience.Grow on one ladder.

The experience is the introduction — free to enter, the real system on your real material. From there, one ratified ladder. Every price below is quoted exactly from the ratified book; the book is confirmed in writing before any payment.

Beam: “The whole ladder in the open — including the step. Tap my companion, bottom right, and ask me anything about it; the math is on this page.”

CORE

$49/mo intro

The volume engine: AI receptionist + virtual assistant core — answering in your business’s name, booking with confirmations and reminders, message taking with instant notification, a daily digest, inbox triage drafts, follow-up reminders, and review requests. 600 included voice minutes a month, overage $0.10/min; 1 number, 1 location, 1 calendar. Your first 3 months at $49/mo, then $99/mo for the rest of your first year; from month 13, the standard rate of $299/mo, and from month 25, $499/mo — disclosed in the open, before you sign.

Growth

$299/mo

Everything in CORE at the standard rate: 1,500 included voice minutes — the allowance that arrives with the step — up to 3 numbers and 2 locations, 3 seats, outbound confirmation and quote-follow-up calls, and a monthly generation credit.

Studio

$499/mo

Everything in Growth, with room to run: 2,500 included voice minutes, up to 5 numbers and 3 locations, 5 seats, the dispatch board and no-show rescue, and a monthly Studio-scope generation credit. The self-serve ceiling — for the business that still runs its own system.

Operated

$999/mo

The hinge — the last metered plan, and the first one we run with you: everything in Studio, plus a dedicated build and a knowledge base NicNac creates and maintains, 4,000 included minutes, up to 25 seats and 5 locations, multi-location answering with per-location scripts, a named human escalation path, a standing monthly operations cadence with human-desk review of exceptions, and a monthly performance report.

Operated Complete

$2,499/mo

The operated line completed: the complete operated front office across all locations of one ownership — up to five — one knowledge base, per-location scripts and calendars, qualification, booking, confirmations, reminders, no-show rescue, the human escalation desk, dispatch, SLA reporting, a named operations lead, and consolidated owner reporting. Flat, by agreement — no self-serve checkout, nothing metered.

Enterprise Operated

$9,999/mo

Enterprise, operated: multi-entity, multi-brand operation — your own systems (CRM, EHR, scheduling, commerce) connected and operated by NicNac, custom workflows built and run by us, a dedicated operations team, and SLA and data terms set in the agreement. The local-only deployment option lives at this rung: your estate, kept current by signed update packs. Beyond this rung, custom by agreement.

How the ladder is delivered: the self-serve plans — CORE $99/mo, Growth $299/mo, and Studio $499/mo — run in NicNac’s cloud, with minutes counted fairly and printed in the agreement. At $999/mo the next level begins: Operated is the last metered plan (4,000 included minutes), and the first where NicNac runs the system with you. Above it, nothing is metered: Operated Complete ($2,499/mo) and Enterprise Operated ($9,999/mo) are flat and arranged by agreement — and at the Enterprise rung a setup can run entirely on your own machines, kept current by signed update packs. Custom work beyond the ladder is composed from the rungs above and confirmed in writing before billing. No plan carries an activation fee.

The step, in the open (ADDENDUM-CORE-SCHEDULE-2026-10-28.md): $49 a month for your first 3 months, then $99 a month for the rest of your first year. From month 13, $299 a month; from month 25, $499 a month. We tell you before every change, and you can cancel before it does. CORE includes 600 voice minutes per month; overage is $0.10/min; the $299 step carries 1,500 included minutes. Annual prepay on every subscription tier: pay for 10 months, get 12 — a first-year prepay prepays the introductory rate. Generation, one-time projects: Solo $99 · Studio $299 · Business $799 · Enterprise from $1,999.

Client Services Monthly Tiers & Zero Foundation/Build/Setup Fees (ADDENDUM-NO-BUILD-FEES-2026-10-28.md — a distinct pricing structure from the CORE four-phase schedule, never combined or substituted): Client services engagements price as a monthly service tier by need at $99 / $299 / $499 / $999 per month with $0 one-time foundation, build, or setup fees. Building is part of the work.

Generation Solo · $99 Generation Studio · $299 Generation Business · $799 Generation Enterprise · from $1,999

For Businesses · Founders Advertising

Your customers are looking.Be the name they find.

Advertise with NicNac and your name travels on two rails at once: our own distribution — the blogs, the YouTube channel, the socials, NicNac Media — and the major platforms, Google and Meta among them, where we place your budget for you. Everything runs under your name, your logo, your voice. We place it; we never absorb it.

Beam: “Tell me where your customers are — one town, one trade, or the whole map — and we will put your name there, in your own branding. Founders first: the first cohort’s rates lock while you stay.”

The Reach Ladder

Pick the ground your name has to cover. Each rung includes the ones before it, widened — a local shop and a national brand each have their door.

Local

One county or metro. Our first market is St. Augustine and St. Johns County: placements on the blog and your profession’s door, features on our socials, and your budget placed on Google and Meta in your service area.

Regional

A multi-county region — Northeast Florida is ours. Everything local, widened: regional feature coverage, recurring placements, plus Display and YouTube.

State

One state, covered whole. State-level coverage and media rotation, the full Google and Meta stacks statewide, and streaming placements where they fit your audience.

Quadrant

A quarter of the country. Featured rotation on the national surfaces, with YouTube, Display, and Meta placed across the states in your quadrant.

U.S.

National. Feature placement across the blog, the profession doors, and NicNac Media — and the full major-platform stack, targeted and reported as one program.

Other Countries

The same ladder, inside each country: local to national, placed through the platforms’ own targeting, on web surfaces the world can already reach.

International

Many countries, one plan. The platform stack placed across the countries you name, owned placements global, a single report.

Specialty Niche

Not a place — a people. Reach your profession or audience wherever they are: your trade’s own door and content, and the platforms where that audience gathers. The niche names who; the tier names where.

The Founders Bundles

Founders Entry

$249/mo

The founding package: owned-distribution placements at Local reach, placement management for one paid channel on your budget, and the full founders terms — they ride on every bundle.

Founders Studio

$499/mo

Entry, widened to Local + Regional: more owned placements, up to three paid channels managed, a monthly creative generation credit applied to your ad creative, and a written placement report every month.

Founders Operated

$999/mo

Studio, extended to State reach, with the full operated cadence: a named operations contact, creative produced for you each month, and a monthly performance review. Quadrant, U.S., other-country, international, and niche programs are built on this bundle — one placement plan per market, under the same founders terms.

Founders Terms — On Every Bundle at $249 and Up

3 months free — your first 3 months of the NicNac platform at no cost: the feedback phase. You use it; we shape it with what you tell us. We run it for you — while our deployment and market-entry phase lasts, NicNac executes the services for our advertisers. Operated, not self-serve. Half the rung, locked — the platform at half the public price of the rung you hold, locked for as long as your membership stays continuous.

Every partnership opens two profiles: one personal, for the decision maker, and one company profile for the business. Paid placements run on your budget, placed and reported by us — spend and service are separate lines, always; nothing is padded with media markup. Our owned channels are new and growing — the blog launched today — and founders are placed from the first day, at founding rates. Placement reports come from the platforms’ own read-backs, never estimates dressed as results.

A person answers. The plan itself is drawn online — the system builds it from your market, your trade, your reach, and your budget, composed from our workflows and the current best practices for your industry, and checked for profit before it is quoted. People approve it and run the relationship; the system draws the plan.

Hardware · The Machines · Christmas

Give them an AIof their own.

Beam, in a box, under the tree. Every NicNac machine now begins at $999 — the floor rose tonight, on purpose: the line is being completed to a standard, not discounted to a shelf. Every package is built to order; reservations are open now, with written confirmation before any payment.

Beam: “Beam, in a box, under the tree. Built to order — and nothing here pretends to be in stock.”

The Foundation

$999 · from

The completed line’s foundation machine — in design now, and this is its place in the row. When it files, it lands here without the page changing shape.

In design

Spark

$999

The foundation machine — your own AI, installed and greeting you by name, ready on arrival.

Create

$1,499

For creators and hobbyists — generation power at the desk.

Pro

$2,499

For professionals — the full working system, ready on arrival.

Entrepreneur Box

$6,499

The business in a box — front office, generation, and orchestration together.

Built to order · Reservations open · Written confirmation before payment. Reserve through the front door: book a call or phone (904) 689-3066.

In design · The novelty
Teased honestly — no rendered product shots, no invented specs, no dates
Beam, in light — the novelty's heart, from the original artwork

Beam, in light, above the desk

The hardware bench is designing a holographic NicNac novelty — Beam himself, in light above the device, from his original artwork — with a second gift inside it: a way to see a possibility before you build it. A visual-creation function that isn’t on mainstream hardware, aimed at the moment an idea becomes believable. It is in design. When it is real, it will be here — drawn from the originals, never from a render pretending to be a product.

The Invitation

Enter the experience — free.Then watch it work.

Thirty minutes with a person. See the systems live, ask anything, decide for yourself. No slide decks, nothing simulated.

Beam: “Start with the experience — free to enter, my work on your real material in your hands. That’s the first of your hours I give back; the rest is the ladder.”

A person answers. That's rather the point. Call (904) 689-3066.