The Crucible engine is a free download. Each download is serial-numbered and tied to the install-site address you provide at the door. The dashboard runs immediately after install — every button works, every label is live. Tap any of them and you'll be prompted to complete the business survey that produces your facility's regulatory database.

Once your custom database is built, one monthly Sage subscription per facility keeps it current. There is no annual license fee, no install fee, no charter discount, no volume discount, and no tier table.

No negotiation. No custom quote. The published price is the price.

Monthly Sage Subscription

Starts at $495 in month 1.
Drops $20 every month.
Floors at today's rate: $295.

The first month covers the labor of building your custom regulatory database after you complete the business survey. Each subsequent month, the price drops $20 until month 10 hits the flat rate. Your 9-month ramp is locked at signup — no price increase reaches you during it.

  • One subscription per facility. Multi-site operators and consultants pay one Sage sub per location served — every facility's regulatory profile is unique enough to need its own.
  • No install fee. Month-1 covers the build.
  • No annual license fee. The engine is free; the subscription is the only line.
  • Month-to-month, recurring auto-bill, or annual prepay — your choice at signup. Annual prepay carries a conventional ~10% discount.
  • Stop paying and the update portal closes. Your existing data stays; daily Sage deltas stop arriving. Resume any time and the portal reopens on the next charge.
Month 1
$495
→ drops $20 each month
Month 10+
$295 / mo*
prevailing flat rate · ramp locked at signup

License unit = location

Not device. Not user. A consultant carrying a laptop to five client sites needs five free engine installs (each location-bound), five business surveys, and five separate Sage subscriptions — same per-facility terms as a solo facility.

One sub covers everything that one facility's compliance officer does

Daily regulatory monitoring, deterministic citation lookup, document-checklist generation, gap assessment, audit-packet export, and the BYOK chat surface that fact-checks any cloud LLM's answers against your local regulatory database. No feature tiers.

Hardware is yours

Buy a 32 GB-RAM mini-PC from any vendor — we don't resell hardware. We've validated several models on the industries page. The engine is signed, fingerprint-locked at activation, and runs entirely on your network.

Resident privacy is structural

The engine's database never stores resident names, room numbers, or MRNs. Personal details get swapped for internal reference codes on the way in, and the map back to real names lives in an encrypted vault inside your engine — it never leaves your office network. Surveyor packets print real names locally; remote consultants see deficiencies without names. Even WalkerNash can't see your residents — the engine has no path to the internet.

What it actually costs

Three buyer profiles, no charter math.

Solo facility

One compliance officer, one site, one regulatory profile.
Engine download
$0
Install / setup fee
$0
Year 1 (Sage, mo 1–12)
$4,620
Year 2+ (Sage, flat $295/mo)
$3,540 / yr
Year 1: $4,620 · Year 2+ steady-state: $3,540/yr
Hardware buy: separate, ~$1,000 typical.

5-facility operator

Multi-site operator, five SNF clinics in one state. Five free engine installs, five surveys, five subs.
Engine downloads (5)
$0
Install fees (5)
$0
Year 1 (5 × $4,620)
$23,100
Year 2+ (5 × $3,540)
$17,700 / yr
Year 1: $23,100 · Year 2+ steady-state: $17,700/yr
No volume discount. Same per-location terms as the solo above.

Consultant, 12 client locations

Independent compliance consultant serving 12 client sites across 2 states. Each location bound to its own engine install on the consultant's laptop.
Engine downloads (12)
$0
Install fees (12)
$0
Year 1 (12 × $4,620)
$55,440
Year 2+ (12 × $3,540)
$42,480 / yr
Year 1: $55,440 · Year 2+ steady-state: $42,480/yr
Roll into your engagement fee structure.

What every Sage subscription includes

What is never included at any price

Download the engine. Try the dashboard. Decide afterward.

The whole product is what's on your screen after install. There is no demo path that hides the real thing — every button is live and tells you what completing the survey would unlock. You commit only after you've used it and seen the custom database we built for your facility.

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