Build Track · M0 · v1 — awaiting Sarmad's read-aloud
~6 min · the meters in the UI · four numbers, three warnings · shares /ledger + /quiz
v1 (2026-09-23) — generated post-S1/S2 standards (opener, no em dashes spoken, scaffolds + seeds, reel cues, house recap, solo-sequence tease 0.2 → 0.3). Per the standing story-allocation rule the 95%/500K story is NOT here (S3's featured story); the old 0.2 draft that used it stays archived.
Track: Build Track · Milestone 0 · Runtime: ~6 min · Artifact: F-02 The Credit Ledger (shared with S2 by design) · Exercise: the Two-Meter Quiz (SHARED with S2 — already live at /quiz) + find all four numbers in your own workspace
Sourced from: CURRICULUM 0.2 · S2 v6 (the economics — referenced, never repeated) · clay.com/pricing + university.clay.com docs + FAQ (verified 2026-09-20: success-only billing, meter prices, rollover 2× cap, +30% top-ups, guardrails) · brain/06 · production/VOICE-PROFILE.md.
Differentiation from S2: S2 = the economics as judgment (read a plan, question a burn, fear the right things). 0.2 = the meters as INSTRUMENTS: where every number physically lives in the UI, the pre-run estimate, the usage dashboard, the warnings. The learner just watched S2; this video is "now let me show you where all of that is on your screen."
(paid-course opener: orient → stakes → in) Okay, quick one. In the strategy track you learned how Clay charges you money: data credits, action credits, and the free shelf. This video is where all of that physically lives on your screen. Four numbers, three warnings, one dashboard. Ten minutes from now, nothing on a Clay bill can surprise you, because you'll have seen where every number comes from before it ever reaches the invoice.
Every workspace has four numbers you should be able to find in under a minute:
1 · DATA CREDITS remaining this month (the grocery budget) 2 · ACTION CREDITS remaining this month (the delivery budget) 3 · ROLLOVER BALANCE (credits roll to a 2× cap · actions expire monthly) 4 · RENEWAL DATE (when the meters reset)
Those four live on your plan and usage page, and everything else in this video hangs off them. (the four stamp on screen as named)
(outline only — narrate live) - Open Settings → Plan & Usage on the sandbox workspace - Point at each of the four numbers in order; say each one's nickname out loud - Usage by table: sort by burn, "this view answers 'where did the money go' in one glance" - Show the rollover line: credits accumulating toward the cap; actions with the monthly reset - Show a top-up flow WITHOUT buying: point at the premium pricing
(outline only) - Set up a paid column on a small table; point at the PRE-RUN COST ESTIMATE before firing - Import rows into a table with live downstream columns; show the CONFIRMATION MODAL - Describe (or show if reproducible) the BIG-RUN FLAG: a run above roughly five percent of monthly budget gets flagged before it fires - The line to land on camera: the warnings are speed bumps, not speed limits. They only help the person who understands them, which is now you.
Here's a quick recap of what we learned in this video.
One: four numbers, one page. Data credits, action credits, the rollover balance, the renewal date. If you can find those in under a minute, you can answer almost any cost question in the room.
Two: usage by table is where the money story lives. Sort by burn, and the bill stops being a mystery.
Three: Clay warns you three times, the pre-run estimate, the import confirmation, and the big-run flag. Read them, don't click through them.
The Credit Ledger card from the strategy track covers this video too. Same card, both altitudes.
Your exercise is under this video, and it's the same two-meter quiz from the credit video, because the instinct is the same. If you already passed it, do the second part instead: open your own workspace and find all four numbers in under a minute. Time yourself. That's the whole exercise.
Next up: workspace setup and hygiene. The naming and nesting rules that stop someone re-running the wrong table at three in the morning.