Investor-grade transparency. Every tier in the matrix carries assumptions about hardware availability,
software compatibility, and pricing windows. Here is the honest accounting.
Pricing
Hardware costs reflect early-2026 retail.
The DGX Spark moved from $3,999 to $4,699 due to memory supply pressure; we hold $4,699 as the planning figure. Apple Silicon prices are taken from current Apple US store; M5 Max upper-tier configurations are estimates based on prior product cycles. Tier 5a hardware (mini PCs) is at retail price as of May 2026.
Tier 5a / 5b
"Summarization-grade" Maya is a real category.
On 16 GB DDR5 hardware, Maya runs as a 3B-class quantized model at 4–7 tok/s with 3–5 s first-token latency. Sufficient for: "what was my last A1C," "summarize my last visits," "explain this lab result." Not sufficient for: cross-document synthesis, multi-modal imaging interpretation, longitudinal trend analysis. Those defer to a paired Spark.
Tier 4 future
Sovereign-Core is a moving target.
The current entry point is ~$1,099–$1,799 (Mac Mini M4 Pro). Plan-of-record target is $700–$900 within 18–24 months as Apple M5 lands and M4 prices compress on the secondary market. Model efficiency (Qwen-3-class MoE at Q4) is moving in our favor on the same curve.
Software constraints
The DGX Spark sm_121 reality.
The Spark's GB10 (sm_121, CUDA 13, ARM64) is bleeding-edge silicon. PyTorch, vLLM, llama.cpp, ComfyUI, BGE-M3 all run on GPU. Blender Cycles, Flash Attention 2, and PyTorch3D do not — these fall back to CPU or require source builds. Any new install must be GPU-compatibility-verified before recommendation.
Subscription
Pricing is illustrative, not committed.
Pricing in the matrix is for strategic positioning. Final pricing will be calibrated against beta feedback, manufacturing costs, support overhead, and the architectural principle that subscription gates sync, not access — records previously synced remain accessible offline forever, even with subscription paused.
Regulatory
Counsel-gated items are clearly marked.
BonesRGood's HIPAA BAA-exemption position has been informally validated by Manatt Health (Randi Seigel); state-privacy review with Stacey Gulick (Garfunkel Wild) is queued. The FPIN telemetry pipeline operates in local-only mode pending formal HIPAA counsel opinion. Tier 5a/5b Mode 3 is similarly counsel-gated.