Sebra ecosystem

Let's start by discussing the average cost of getting an AI agent for a business.

The creation and deployment of an AI agent on a website or e-commerce store, with custom fine-tuning capabilities, activity data monitoring, dashboards, etc., typically costs between $20,000 and $40,000 USD, though it can go up to $500,000 USD in some cases. For now, let's focus on the standard price range: $25,000 for deployment and $1,500 per month for ongoing support. This is an average cost from a developer team on the lower end of the pricing spectrum.

This estimate assumes a simple AI agent without any custom integrations or workflows, something similar to what Sebra offers in the marketplace right now, minus the image outputs but with website integration.

So, for $25,000 in deployment and $1,500 per month for support, an agent can handle 150 user interactions per minute. Remember this number; we'll come back to it.

[Source: Uptech Team Blog] (https://www.uptech.team/blog/ai-cost). This is one data source, we are using our own knowledge from the industry to set more accurate median price.

The Main Use Case: Why Do Businesses Buy AI Agents?

AI agents are primarily used to handle repetitive tasks and answer common questions, effectively replacing humans in roles like customer support and assistant jobs. They also have significant potential for future improvements that can benefit businesses without additional costs.

Key use cases include:

- Customer Support: Automating responses to frequently asked questions.

- Personal Search Engines: Assisting users and teams in navigating internal company information, policies, data or products & services.

Why We Started Sebra

After ChatGPT's release sparked a surge in AI interest among businesses, we noticed a growing demand for AI agent integrations. However, this is a niche, emerging industry that isn’t automated yet, making it expensive since every integration has to be custom-built for each client. Although developers can reuse code to some extent, it's still not easy or cheap enough. Many smaller businesses want AI agents but find them too costly.

So, how do we make it cheaper and more accessible? The answer is to automate and simplify creation. We quickly realized that AI agents would become as important as websites and that there needs to be a straightforward, no-code builder for their creation.

While developers often criticize website builders, these tools, such as Wix—a $10 billion company—are incredibly popular because they provide simple, effective solutions that cater to what most users want (it’s quite bad tho). Similarly, Shopify has established itself as a powerful e-commerce builder that is relatively well-regarded by developers, offering a platform that is both powerful and easy to use. So, how do we achieve a similar outcome in this very new business environment?

Our vision is a simple, automated system that allows for intuitive AI agent creation. But there’s more to it, way more actually.

Knowledge Sharing: What truly inspires us

The main current use for AI agents is in customer support and managing repetitive tasks. However, we believe they are an amazing tool for sharing knowledge. You can train an AI agent to output images from a personal library, replicating a learning app experience like Duolingo (though it's not on that level and may never be). It can provide access to both materials and teachers simultaneously.

This capability allows creators to easily develop app-like experiences powered by their unique, non-generic knowledge—an innovation we’re working on for stage 2 of our project.

Business Use Cases and the Potential for Learning AI-Driven Apps

While there are promising business applications and potential for learning-driven AI apps, there's a challenge: the technology is very new, and people don't fully understand what AI agents are or what they can do. This is where our public marketplace comes into play.

Stage 1 of the Project: Laying the Ground layer

We faced a key challenge: it's early days of AI agents, and most people are unfamiliar with the concept of AI agents. How do you sell something to someone who doesn't even know it exists? The answer is you need to explain a lot. But maybe there is a better way?

That’s where the public marketplace comes in. It allows everyone to quickly test their ideas, share them with others, or interact with other people’s agents to understand their capabilities better. It’s a "Trojan horse" that introduces people to the world of AI agents.

The marketplace is easily accessible and shareable. It's the project's foundational layer, providing all the basic AI agent capabilities. However, these can't be used in any serious business environment or for building a personal brand. This is just the introduction, a playground, and a traffic channel, as it’s fast, easy, and cost-free to publish.

Now that we've completed this ground layer, we're moving on to the base layer.

Public Marketplace & Ground Layer Features

- Custom knowledge, and fine tuning

- Control over answer length and level of improvisation

- Image inputs (ask questions with images)

- Image outputs (custom solution, belongs to step 2 smart tools)

- Data gathering and feedback

- Deploy to Telegram

- Unlockable content

- Metamask integration, payment integration

This is the ground layer. Now it’s time to release the agents to the world and make them truly intelligent.

Stage 2: Building the Base Layer

Our ground layer already matches the capabilities of AI agents that cost $25,000 for deployment and $1,500 per month for support (the figures we calculated earlier). It even includes additional powerful features like image outputs.

This stage focuses on two things: deployment environment and base AI agent tools and capabilities.

First Step: Website Embedding and E-commerce Integration

Once we finish external integrations, users will be able to create and customize their own agents with private dashboards and everything more than what the $25,000 and $1,500 per month price tag would offer. Access will be gated for those holding a certain amount of $BRAIN for free, more on that later.

This opens up a world of possibilities, not just for developers but for anyone. You can sell AI agents to businesses while Sebra handles all the heavy lifting. If you are a $BRAIN holder, this ecosystem is yours to leverage. You can provide these services at a third of the current market price, and there’s a great opportunity to build a profitable business. Remember, it’s still early days—competition is low, and demand is growing every day.

Private Domain: Creating an App-like Experience

The next step is developing a new form of a website: an AI-powered site that works like a personal app. Users will be able to create app-like applications using AI, where their agent is the engine. This will open up new possibilities for creating learning apps, sharing knowledge, scaling content, and much more.

Base Smart Tools

We will implement seven base smart tools that can be integrated into your agent in the easiest possible way:

1. Image Outputs: Connect external image libraries to your agent and set conditions for image use.

2. YouTube Video Data Extraction: Extract data from YouTube videos to summarize or train your agent.

3. PDF Data Extraction: Extract data from complex PDFs for use as a tool or to train your agent.

4. Google Search: Perform Google searches to gather the latest information on a topic.

5. Data Extraction: Generate reports from your data.

6. Website Scraping and Summarization: Post a URL, and the agent will scrape and summarize the entire website.

7. Audio to Data Table: Convert, summarize, and segment data from an audio file, which can be used for agent training.

These seven base tools will meet the needs of most users. After this, we'll begin stage 3, the turning point for building a truly powerful and permissionless ecosystem.

Stage 3: Building an Open, Permissionless Ecosystem

This stage finalizes the core idea behind why we started Sebra: a permissionless, decentralized ecosystem.

We found a way to automate agent creation, allowing us to sell agents to customers and reach more people by making it cheaper to create agents in the first place. So, we thought, why not let other developers use our ecosystem to avoid creating agents from scratch and sell them to their customers? Not every business person will realize the potential of agents, they are probably not even aware of their existence, so, you do the math.

However, developers might hesitate to use a new centralized ecosystem until it gains real recognition, and they certainly won’t waste time developing tools for it. So how do we solve this?

A Permissionless, Decentralized Ecosystem

- Open Source: We will open-source our entire codebase.

- DAO Governance: The ecosystem and its decisions will be controlled by a DAO, proportionate to the amount of $BRAIN tokens held.

With an open-source, decentralized ecosystem, developers can create for themselves. If they create something valuable, they will have two sources of income: one from the direct usage of their plugin tools and another from the growing and expanding ecosystem and its appreciating value. Now developers have two incentives, and they own a share of the entire ecosystem, encouraging early adoption and development, opening doors for this system to truly challenge centralized corporations.

Key Features of the Ecosystem

- Open Development: Anyone can create tools, provided they hold a certain amount of $BRAIN tokens as collateral.

- Service Costs: Extra services will be chargeable, with payments accepted in ETH, USDT, or $BRAIN. 10% of revenue will go to the DAO. 90% directly to the creator.

- Base Service Fees: 10% of base service fees will go to the DAO, and 90% will go to a revenue-sharing pool, distributed among token holders.

- Token-Gated Access: This will encourage token holding for cost-free access. Users who only want access to the software without holding tokens can pay with ETH, USDT, or $BRAIN. Any of these payments will follow the 10/90 revenue split between the revenue pool and the DAO.

The $BRAIN token will gain value through its role in providing gated access and the requirement for holders to contribute to and engage with the ecosystem. However, this won’t restrict users who simply want to access services without holding tokens.

Holding $BRAIN tokens offers two key incentives:

1. Gated Access: Token holders will have exclusive access to agent services, providing a premium experience that surpasses alternative solutions.

2. Tool Publishing: To publish tools on the public marketplace, developers must lock up $BRAIN tokens, creating a valuable entry point into the ecosystem.

These incentives ensure that holding $BRAIN not only grants access but also ties directly into the functionality and expansion of the ecosystem.

Our current plan is to grant gated access to all services for token holders who hold 10,000 $BRAIN tokens. This threshold may be adjusted based on further analysis.

At the current price of $890 USD for 10,000 $BRAIN tokens, holders will receive access to deploy up to three agents. Each agent, once integrated with other websites, would be valued at $25,000 USD with current market prices, equating to a perceived value of $75,000 USD for three agents.

Additionally, developers will need to hold and lock $BRAIN tokens to launch verified tools on the marketplace. This requirement aims to ensure system integrity and prevent malicious activity. Developers who deploy harmful tools will face penalties, ensuring a secure and reliable environment.

Other users or businesses that wish to sell or use AI agents will need to pay for them, with the actual pricing determined by the DAO.

FIAT Access for Non-Crypto Natives

There will be a fiat option available for non-crypto users to access services without needing to interact with cryptocurrency. Implementing this service will be challenging due to the need to ensure it operates effectively without centralized control, but we will get it right.

BRAIN

The entire base of the project, its income, and 10% of plugin tools will all belong to token holders proportionally. If you hold 1% of the total supply, 1% of the entire ecosystem and its future expansions or revenue will belong to you, along with DAO voting power.

Please note that the actual percentages may vary, and this is not a final statement with precise figures. The accurate numbers and details will be confirmed before we move forward with stage 3.