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Where the goal comes from

• It is the estimated cost of a plain-language account of every law and executive order since January 1, 1995.
• 5,837 laws have no finished account yet. Estimated cost: $972.56.
• 1,375 saved executive orders have no finished account yet. Estimated cost: $76.92.
• 16 executive orders are listed and not saved yet. Assumed cost: $0.90, from the average order of the same decade.
• On the record research for 7,345 laws and orders. Estimated cost: $0.90.
• On the record is the second part of each account: why the law or order exists, and every statement about it by a member of Congress or an organization in the official record.
• That cost is assumed until 10 research passes are measured: the cost of the account for a law under 100,000 characters, half of that for a longer law, and the cost of the account for an executive order.
• Spent so far: $33.00.
• The total, $1,084.28, is rounded up to the next $50.
• The estimate runs from $768.90 to $1,609.92.

Worked out on October 7, 2026.

Analyzed so far

• 118 of 5,955 laws analyzed
• 74 of 1,515 executive orders analyzed

What the AI cost is

$33.00 is spent on AI costs through October 7, 2026.

Computed from the amount of text the AI service reports for each draft, at $3.00 for one million tokens in and $15.00 out.

$0.00 of the computed spending is for On the record research (120 research passes).

• 118 drafts of laws · $28.73
• 134 drafts of executive orders · $4.27

AI model: claude-sonnet-5