THE SITE,
THE PRICES,
THE ART.

The site

We built it. The presentation below is the concept called Discipline: shows, tickets, listening, the band, contact, on a phone and on a laptop.

It runs as a plain static site. The current Bandzoogle page stays up as long as the band wants it, and the October 16 show is not a deadline for any of this.

The presentation, live. Scroll inside it, or open it full size with the button.

$600for the build and launch: the 15h 41m in the table at $37.50 an hour ($50 less 25%, the October 3, 2026 rate), $588.20, set as $600. $300 to begin, $300 on launch.

After launch, one plan keeps the site updated and grown: $1,500, paid at $300 a month at minimum. At the rate that is 40 hours, 8 a month, for upkeep, content work, changes asked for by email, meetings and online marketing help, spent as the band needs them and shown on each invoice from signed work sessions. Hours not used in a month carry forward within the plan. The agreement is reviewed every three months, when either side can change it or renew it; until then the $300 a month stands.

Why these numbers

Why $600

It is the table: 15h 41m at $37.50 is $588.20. The clock behind the fixed figure is signed and shown; the band gets one number and still sees every hour.

Why $37.50

$50 an hour is the rate. 25% off is the October 3 offer to this band, and it is the only discount anywhere on this page.

Why $300 a month

It is 8 hours at the rate, not a flat fee for nothing in particular. The band market is compared below: care plans at $50 to $200 include almost no work; agencies charge $500 to $800 for 5 to 8 hours.

Why three months

A review point, not a lock-in. Either side changes or renews the plan in writing; nothing silently rolls over.

Why the first row is already done

7h 11m was recorded and signed on October 3. It exists; it is not an estimate.

What the rate gives up

Full value

15h 41m at $50 an hour: $784.27.

Discount

25%, $196.07, forgone by Gas-Lighting LLC.

Charged

$588.20 at $37.50, set as the $600 build.

What the plan's hours cover, and what sits outside both prices

• Inside the plan: changes asked for by email (they are time), meetings for the time they run, upkeep after launch (security updates, monitoring, backups and link checks), content help, and online marketing help. All of it is hours at $37.50, taken from the 40.
• Outside both prices: anything not in the table or the plan, such as a second site or a store, quoted separately in writing before it starts, at $37.50 an hour as worked. If the plan's 40 hours run out before it is paid off, further hours are billed the same way, with the band's written yes first.

• Third-party services below pass through at cost. No markup, so no margin to Gas-Lighting LLC on any of them.
• The band owns the result outright: the design, the code, the content and the domain.
• The development work and the art are scaled differently, almost separately. Art is priced apart from this table. See the art.

These are the third-party services the site needs to run. Hosting, compute, the code repository (GitHub Pro with an organization), DNS and media storage run on Gas-Lighting LLC's own accounts; Gas-Lighting LLC pays those companies and passes the cost to the band on each invoice at the companies' published prices, as separate lines from its hours, with no markup and no margin. The domain is the one thing registered in the band's name and paid by the band. They are separate from the build and the plan.

Nothing here is free. A free plan is a plan whose published price is $0 and whose limits are listed; the moment the band needs a role or a limit above it, the next plan's price applies and is shown here. Labor that keeps these services running is billed at the rate, as set out above.

Why each one is there

Sanity

So the band edits shows, photos and links without touching code. Free covers an administrator; Growth is needed the day an editor role or scheduled publishing is wanted.

GitHub

The code has to live somewhere the band owns. Pro gives a private repository with history, so any change can be undone.

Vercel

It builds and serves the site on every push, with SSL included. Pro, not Hobby, because Hobby forbids commercial use.

Cloudflare

DNS, caching and a filter in front of the site. The $10 is the scope note's estimate for 10 GB a month. Cloudflare is not free and gets expensive at scale; the estimate holds for a band site's traffic and rises with it.

R2 and Lambda

Photos and video are heavy; R2 stores them at cents per gigabyte with no egress fee. Lambda runs only the few server jobs the site needs, because idle time costs nothing and latency costs a lot.

Domain

The band's name on the band's registration. Costed in full, per name, below.

Email and Notion

Optional. Listed because the band asked what a mailbox and a shared workspace cost; not required for the site to run.

$34.94a month for the required set with one seat each, passed through at cost: $419.28 a year. Prices as published on October 12, 2026; the Cloudflare figure is the estimate from the scope note.

Against what the band pays today

Bandzoogle's published plans are Lite $11.00, Standard $17.00 and Pro $22.00 a month billed monthly ($9.16, $14.16 and $18.33 billed annually). That is one bill for hosting, editing, domain and mail list together. Recreating that costs the $34.94 a month above plus the plan, and in return the band owns the code, the content and the domain, and nothing about the site ties it to any one vendor.

Against the market

Read on October 12, 2026 from the sources named. Freelance custom sites: $500 to $5,000 (SuperGig, Opulon, WebFX). Band-specific fixed packages: $349 Essential and $628 Standard, or $79 a month with nothing upfront (RIOT New York). One-time band builds with a required subscription: $975, $1,957 or $3,999, then $19.99 to $150 a month (Music On The Go). A band site as a monthly plan with the build inside it: $79 a month (VM Agency). Band plans with minimum terms: $150 a month Indie and $300 a month Band on a six-month minimum, $600 a month Label on twelve (IPMNation). Small-business care plans: $50 to $200 basic, $199 to $599 for a quality plan (ProjectCostEstimator, Tuesday). Agency retainers: $500 to $800 for 5 to 8 hours a month (Tuesday). Builders: Bandzoogle $11 to $22, Squarespace $25 to $139 monthly, Bandweb $15 to $19. Where this page lands: $600 is the low end of freelance and almost exactly the signed table; $300 a month is the top of the band market for 8 real hours, below what agencies charge for the same hours; the one competitor at $300 bundles hosting and asks six months, this page passes hosting through at cost and reviews every three.

You can save, download and reproduce the banner for the show on the 16th. Direct-linking it is part of the hand-off row.

It is a Scalable Vector Graphic whose geometry was calculated with assistance from artificial intelligence. Under our zero-AI-tolerance policy for delivered art that makes its value nearly nothing, so it is offered to you as such: the creation of this banner is valued at $0. If you need it on your Bandzoogle page, the SVG below is yours to reproduce and use.

The three concept presentations

• Indiscipline initial presentation (Discipline)
• Indiscipline Paper concept presentation (The Court)
• Indiscipline Red concept presentation

The site should live on a name registered to the band, not to Gas-Lighting LLC. A domain is never just the registration. Every name below is costed with everything that hangs off it, per month, so there is nothing left to discover later.

What each column is, and why

Registration

First year, then renewal, at the Vercel registrar on October 11, 2026. Some names are cheap to buy and dear to keep (.live is $3.99 then $35.00); the renewal is the real price.

WHOIS privacy

Keeps the band's address and phone out of the public registry. $0 at Porkbun, always, published. A registrar that charges for it is the wrong registrar.

DNS

Cloudflare in front of the name: $10 a month, the scope note's estimate for 10 GB of traffic. It is metered, not free: the bill grows with bandwidth, and at scale it is one of the larger lines, so the estimate is for this band's traffic and is re-read against the real bill each month.

SSL

$0. The certificate is issued and renewed by Vercel and Cloudflare as part of their plans already counted above.

Email

Three mailboxes, the usual default. Porkbun Email is $3.00 a mailbox a month with 10 GB each, forwarding $0; Microsoft 365 Business Basic is $7.00 a user a month paid yearly from July 1, 2026 ($5.40 without Teams). The last column shows the Microsoft route.

Totals

Registration spread over twelve months, plus DNS, plus email. Year one and renewal differ only by the registration. The $34.94 a month for hosting and the dashboard above is on top of this, once, not per name.

Porkbun's .com is $11.08 a year with privacy at $0; the Vercel registrar's $11.25 is used in the table because those are the names actually checked. GoDaddy was not checked and is not quoted. indiscipline.com and indiscipline.music are taken.

The art for the site is made by my artist, a Chicago experimental film photographer and alcohol ink artist. The standard: art on the site is made by a person, credited by name, and nothing delivered contains generative AI. In a world of AI, the things that matter most, music and art, stay human-made.

My artist's work is hers and is not part of the build table above. Instead of a fixed price now, we propose an ongoing arrangement: her pieces are placed with the band and settled as they are used, the way a consignment works. What counts as a use and how it settles is set with you and with her. If that is more than you want to decide right now, it waits; the site does not depend on it.

Why it is priced this way

Why apart from the build

Code is labor at a rate. Art is a work with its own value and its own maker. Mixing them would price her hours like mine and her work like code.

Why a gate

Because the whole promise is that the art is human-made. No attestation, no date of use, no payment.

Why an index and not a price list

Her gallery lists no prices, and a list would go stale. A formula stays fair as pieces, terms and placements change.

How a piece is paid for

Gate

An art payment cannot come due unless the piece carries the artist's own "Made by hand" attestation and a date it was used.

Fees

The band pays the price shown and nothing on top of it. Card and bank fees are carried by Gas-Lighting LLC, never added to the band's price.

Rails

Card or bank transfer in from the band. No crypto. Until the rails are connected every row is a paper simulation and nothing is paid.

With the artist

What she is paid for a use is set with her, in writing, before any piece is placed. It is not on this page because it has not been agreed.

Three worked examples, on paper

Simulations under the proposed split. Nothing has been paid on any of these.

The price is the whole of what the band pays. Nothing is added for fees, and nothing here has been paid; these are paper rows.

Fixed rates: the index

The index is not a menu of pieces and it is not read off the artist's gallery, which lists no prices. It is one formula, scaled to her work, with labor kept separate.

Rate

Base × S × D × N, fixed once the piece, the use and the term are named.

Base

$400 for one piece, on the site, for one year. The anchor from the worked examples above.

S, size to depth

The piece's size-to-depth ratio relative to the reference piece in her catalogue. A piece twice the reference scale pays twice; half pays half. The reference is set with her from her own catalogue, not assumed here.

D, duration

Years the use runs. One year is 1. A single show's flyer is the show's term, settled when the show is over.

N, amount

How many placements the band takes: one site placement is 1; each additional placement (a flyer, a post, a thumbnail) adds its own count at the small-use rate.

Labor, separate

A commissioned new piece is the artist's time at her hourly rate, agreed with her before art hours begin, and billed apart from the index. The index prices the use of a finished piece; it never prices her hours.

The band is never quoted the formula. The formula is how Gas-Lighting LLC and the artist arrive at a number; the band is quoted one fixed price per use (a site license for a year, a show commission, a small use), in writing, before the piece is placed, and that figure freezes on the row. No example rates are shown here on purpose: a rate exists only once a piece is named, its size-to-depth ratio is measured against her reference piece, the term is set and the placements are counted. The attestation gate applies to every row. Everything here reads Proposed until the artist accepts it.

Why test at all: "no generative AI" is a promise we check, not a line in the terms, and a checked promise is worth more to the band than a signed one. Why two tests: one on a picture known to be machine-made, to see the detector say yes; one on a real piece against a machine copy of it, to see the detector say no and yes side by side. Two tests so far. The first image we tested is a known AI-made picture run through the probe below: the noise it carries is fed into a recursive Mandelbrot calculation over and over until the decay rate shifts, and the 0 and 1 at the end mean everything between a true value and not a value. It did not even need the Mandelbrot pass: zoomed in, the detector shows the synthetic uniformity of its spacing. That is the picture the U.S. Copyright Office refused to register, the refusal upheld in Thaler v. Perlmutter.

The second test took a screenshot of one of the artist's works, two passes removed from the original (a photograph of it, then a screenshot), and compared it one to one with an AI replica of the same piece. Even with all of that in the way, the real one still reads real and the copy still reads AI. The figures are on the right.

The probe is a small page that takes a picture and reads two things from it, then turns them into a price under the proposed split. Why the math is shaped this way: the gate is binary because a piece is either attested human work or it is not paid as such; the noise value is a bonus rather than a penalty because a real piece that disturbs the set more carries more of the hand that made it, and 40% is the ceiling so the bonus can never outweigh the base.

1. 🖼The picture. Drop in any image; it opens on a public-domain one, A Recent Entrance to Paradise, made by the DABUS system and refused copyright registration in Thaler v. Perlmutter.
2. ∇The noise residual: what is left of the centre 256 by 256 crop after the smooth picture is taken away. A camera leaves one kind of residue; an image generator leaves another.
3. 𝓕The spectrum of that residual. Generators that build an image by upsampling leave periodic peaks on a lattice. T is the mean excess of those peaks: the tell. The method follows GANDCTAnalysis (ICML 2020) and CNNDetection (CVPR 2020).
4. z²+cThe residual is fed as a perturbation into an iterated Mandelbrot step. Δ is the share of escape counts the picture moves across the Full and Dive views: how much of the set the picture's own noise disturbs.
5. 0·1The gate. If T is at or above 0.5 the piece reads as machine-made and the gate is 0: nothing is paid as human work. The 0.5 line is uncalibrated and is marked as such.
6. $The price. A human piece earns its price plus a noise value of up to 40% of that price, scaled by Δ. At Δ = 100% the mean of the three paper uses, $546.67, becomes $765.33.

The first image tested

A Recent Entrance to Paradise, DABUS (Stephen Thaler), public domain, Wikimedia Commons. Refused registration by the U.S. Copyright Office; Thaler v. Perlmutter.

What it found on a real piece

The artist's piece Nebula 35 (as a screenshot of her gallery page), an AI copy of it (a small GAN trained on crops of the piece for thirteen minutes), and a pure Mandelbrot render with no network behind it, all through the same detector, which is never told which is which.

Resampling the AI copy the way the screenshot was resampled (×0.8 to ×2.0) still left it at a mean P(AI) of 0.71 to 0.96 with 20 to 30 of 32 patches flagged, while the real piece stayed at 0.00002 whole and 0.18 on patches. The ordering holds for one crude generator against one piece, which is not a general error rate. The Mandelbrot render, which no model made, is still called AI: the detector measures "not a camera capture of a physical surface", not "made by a model". That is why the artist's own attestation is the gate and the probe is the check beside it.

The October 3 estimate said 12 to 15.5 hours, $450.00 to $581.25 at $37.50. The table today is 15h 41m, $588.20. Here is the bridge, line by line, and why each line moved.

What October 3 said that is no longer true

Hosting: "no charge to the band"

Withdrawn. Hosting is $20 a month on Gas-Lighting LLC's Vercel account, passed through at cost inside the $34.94 a month required set. Nothing is free; the cost is shown and passed on.

Dashboard: "Sanity's free plan"

Kept, with its limits stated: $0 covers an administrator; an editor role or scheduled publishing is $15 a seat a month.

Upkeep: "$10 a month, or $100 for the year"

Withdrawn. Security updates, monitoring, backups and link checks are hours at $37.50 inside the $1,500 plan, 8 a month at $300. A flat $10 was a number without hours behind it.

Domain: "about $10 to $14 a year"

Widened to the per-name table above: $3.99 to $29.99 in year one, $11.25 to $39.91 at renewal, plus privacy, DNS and email costed in full.

Deposit: "$225 at approval, the rest at launch"

Replaced by $300 to begin and $300 on launch, the two halves of the $600 build.

Ongoing, against the band's current bill

Bandzoogle today: $11.00, $17.00 or $22.00 a month. The required set, passed through at cost: $34.94 a month. That is $12.94 to $23.94 a month more, +59% to +218%, and the reason is ownership: four separate accounts in the band's name instead of one bundled plan on someone else's platform. Email and a domain add $9.94 to $21.94 a month more on top, per the table above.

The short form of the terms above, for the band to print, sign and send back. Nothing in it is not already on this page. The full Website Services Agreement and the separate Art Agreement travel with the email as PDFs.

This is a plain-language agreement between a small company and a band, not legal advice. Either side may have a lawyer read it first; the terms do not change by being read.