Poly A1 · For teams and companies
The strongest AI at the lowest bill
A step-by-step path in Claude Code: work out, on your company's own numbers, the strongest AI at the lowest bill — before anything is bought, and every week after.
One step
Every step has four parts
Take the step “The company's bill”: about 25 minutes, and the billcall plugin does the work.
- 01
What you get
In plain words: what we count, and why it matters to the company.
The company's bill≈ 25 minutes
- 02
Words for Claude Code
Ready text: you paste it, and Claude Code leads one action at a time and waits for your answer.
billcall estimate
- 03
Frame
The person who pays for the company buys. Prices only with their date and page. Signing in is yours.
Your “yes”
- 04
Result file
A file stays in the company folder, and the next step builds on it.
company-bill.mdwork-log.md
Map
Map for companies
The whole track lives in the computer folder, and Claude Code walks it with you. Here is the order; under each step — the plugin that does the work.
Start: what you have and what it costs
- Three questions about the company
- The company's bill: seats, tokens and free ways · billcall
- Which work goes where — and people's own laptops · gatecall
- Map of the work: tasks, minutes, the cost of a mistake
- First work in Claude Code · safecall
- Cowork and its counterparts · firmcall
- Measure it, and a second opinion · duocall
Your own setup: admin, contract, pilot
- A plugin that writes plugins for your company · firmcall
- Admin decisions: sign-in, limits, plugin library · firmcall
- Buying and the contract: Team or Enterprise · billcall
- Pilot: from a small group to the whole team · teamcall
- Scale up or stop — on one page
Stronger and cheaper
- The strong one thinks, cheaper ones do the work · routecall
- The decider: which model, at what price · decidecall
- Your own local model · routecall
- Early warning on spending across vendors, and a cap plan for each vendor's console · billcall
People and the remote
- Bridges to the company's systems · firmcall
- The phone as a remote: the company's own relay, approve-or-deny cards, and a voice note that becomes a task, a pull request and a Yes on the phone · pocketcall
- Moving people to the terminal within a month, with a short card a day in their messenger · teamcall
- How to roll it out: who does what, how many minutes
The route by size
- 1 person
A company of one
Three questions, the bill, data routes, the work map, the first work, measuring, the remote, strong-and-cheap, the spending warning.
- 2–20
A small team
Three questions and the work map, first work in Claude Code or Cowork, measuring, your own plugin, a pilot, the spending warning, the remote, people into the agent.
- 20+
A company
The whole route. The admin leads the admin decisions, buying, the pilot and “scale up or stop”; department champions walk the steps for people.
The whole path: seven sessions, about nine hours.
Plugins
Six plugins for a company
Free and open: Apache-2.0, each with a DOI. They never buy, never open a checkout, never ask for a card.
- billcall
The bill before buying
What AI costs the company, from one price table with a date and a link on every row: seats for people, tokens for scripts, free ways, your own hardware. And every week after: an early warning on spending across vendors, and a spending-cap plan for each vendor's console. New in 0.1.4: a trace of the agents' work — every step with its tokens and dollars, so the company sees where the money goes.
- gatecall
A route for every kind of data
Red folders are read only by a model on this computer, the company's work goes to its own accounts, and a key, a card number, an IBAN or a list of addresses never leaves in a message by accident. New in 0.1.4: the journal of stops keeps each value only as a fingerprint under the company's own key, deletes records after the period the company sets, and exports them for the security team.
- firmcall
Your company's own plugin
Writes a plugin for your company — and the admin's path: the same rules on every computer.
- routecall
The strong one thinks, cheaper ones work
A strong model plans, cheap and local models do the volume — and everyone keeps the remote on their phone.
- decidecall
A model only where one is needed
Repeated small decisions — which team gets this message, urgent or not — go first to a cache and rules, for free. New in 0.1.4: a meaning cache — a question that means the same as one already answered gets the saved answer, with no new model call.
- teamcall
People into the agent in 30 days
A plan, a journal and the numbers: from the chat window to an agent in the terminal — and you see what worked. New in 0.1.4: one short card a day in Telegram or WhatsApp — how to lead an agent and approve its steps, with Done, Show me and Skip; the answers go into the pilot report without names.
Figures
Every figure with its date and source
- a month per developer$150–250Claude Code on the API: about $13 per active day on average. source · code.claude.com/docs/en/costs · 02.10.2026
- a Team Premium seat$100–125For someone in the agent all day, the comparison is a Premium seat against the API ($150–250), not Standard ($20–25): on Standard the shared limit runs out first. Team takes 2 to 150 seats. source · claude.com/pricing · 02.10.2026
- an Enterprise seat$20 + APIA seat plus usage at API rates, from 20 seats, a one-year contract. Only here: your own encryption keys (CMEK), an IP allowlist, SCIM, audit logs and the Compliance API. It is control, not a discount: discounts are negotiated. source · support.claude.com · 02.10.2026
- batch processing−50%The Batch API for background work that needs no answer right away. source · platform.claude.com · 02.10.2026
- decisions for $036 of 65In our measurement of 65 support messages, a cache and rules decided 36, all of them right, for $0. source · github.com/vadimchernets/decidecall · 02.10.2026
- cheaper than Claude Haiku 4.53.8–11.4×Cheap Chinese models — DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, Qwen3.8-flash, GLM-5.3-Flash, MiMo-v2.6-flash, MiniMax M3 — are 3.8–11.4 times cheaper than Claude Haiku 4.5 and stronger on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index: 29–42 against 17. GPT-6 Luna and Gemini Flash-Lite sit at the same price. source · billcall 0.1.3 count: the vendors' own APIs, input:output 3:1, no cache · 03.10.2026 artificialanalysis.ai
- cheaper than Claude Sonnet 5.57.6–22.9×The same models against Sonnet 5.5: 7.6–22.9 times cheaper, and weaker — a choice of role: the strong one thinks, the cheap ones do the volume. source · billcall 0.1.3 count: the vendors' own APIs, input:output 3:1, no cache · 03.10.2026 artificialanalysis.ai
Data
Every kind of data has its own route
What Claude Code reads, Anthropic processes under the company's plan terms. gatecall decides what goes there and what stays on this computer.
- Red — only a model on this computer
- The company's work — to its own accounts
- Keys, cards, IBANs, ID numbers — stopped
- A journal of stops under the company's own key, with an export for security
- Five routes for people's own laptops
Phone
The phone: the remote and the second opinion
The main work is on the computer: Claude Code walks the company through it step by step. The phone is the remote and the second opinion — what you start on the road carries on at the computer.
- Remote from the car
Remote from the car
Instructions and ready words for remote work: Claude Code works on the computer, you steer it from the phone.
A — the same conversation on the phone
B — start on the phone, finish at the computer
C — your own computer over SSH
Say it by voice: a task in the tracker, a pull request, Yes on the phone
The remote's rule: on the phone, approve only what you can see in full. Can't see the whole command or file — ask “show it in full”, or leave it for the computer.
- Duo
Duo for a business decision
One AI weighs the decision, an AI from another company checks it — right on the phone, before the meeting.
On iPhone and on Android.
How to start
Three ways
- Through Poly A1
The app sends the folder to the computer
In the app, open “For teams and companies”. The folder goes to the computer, and you tell Claude Code one sentence:
I'm from a company. Read FOR-COMPANIES.md and walk me through it.
- Already have Claude Code
Two lines, and the plugins are in
Add the catalogue and install the plugins you need, one line at a time:
/plugin marketplace add vadimchernets/poly-a1-plugins
/plugin install billcall@poly-a1
/plugin install gatecall@poly-a1
/plugin install firmcall@poly-a1
/plugin install routecall@poly-a1
/plugin install decidecall@poly-a1
/plugin install teamcall@poly-a1Without git, add the catalogue by its full link:
/plugin marketplace add https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vadimchernets/poly-a1-plugins/main/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json
- Count first
The bill before anything is bought
Install billcall and tell Claude Code:
Work out what AI will cost our 12 people: who is in the agent all day, who writes code, who uses AI now and then.
billcall estimate counts from a price table with a date on every row.
Questions
Do I need to be a programmer?
No. The path is led by whoever is responsible for AI or for the bill: the owner, a manager, the admin. Claude Code talks in your words and installs the plugins itself — after your “yes”.
What does the company buy?
The six plugins are free. The Claude plan — Team or Enterprise — or API keys the company gets from Anthropic and other vendors itself, on the numbers billcall counted. The Poly A1 app is free; lessons are $2 a month.
Only Claude?
The path runs in Claude Code, and billcall counts seats you already pay for — Microsoft 365 Copilot, Gemini in Google Workspace, ChatGPT Business — and sets Chinese models and your own hardware side by side.
Which languages is the path in?
In all five languages of this site: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian and Ukrainian.
Where does the company's data go?
Poly A1 collects nothing. gatecall sorts the data by colour: red is read only by a model on your computer, the company's work goes to its own accounts.
Where do fresh prices come from?
From one table, billcall/data/prices.json: every row has its page and date, and billcall says itself which row is out of date.