In AI, Trust is all you need
The truth about
your AI tools.
What nobody in AI wants to talk about.
“Fuck your benchmarks.”I don't need to one-shot a full Intercom SaaS clone that not a single user ever touches. I need to iterate on a real product for real users.
J.R. Wells, Founder
You're hyping imaginary models, nerfing the real ones two weeks later, and leaving us holding the bag.
The elephant in the room
The foundation model companies
are not on your side.
YOUR AI GOT DUMBER AND NOBODY TOLD YOU
Silent nerfs are the norm.
They degrade models behind the same version number. No changelog. No warning. They think you're too dumb to notice. You just start Googling “did Claude get worse?” and find a thousand other people asking the same thing.
THEIR BUSY DAY IS YOUR BAD DAY
Outages are constant.
Major outages every month. Requests queued for minutes at peak. If you're locked to one provider, you're down when they are.
FREE TODAY, 3X THE PRICE BY MARCH
Pricing is a shell game.
Token costs shift quarterly. Models deprecated with weeks of notice. They train you on the free tier, then jack up prices once you're dependent.
EVERY INCENTIVE TO MAKE YOU SPEND MORE
They want you to use more tokens.
Verbose responses, bloated context windows. Every token is revenue. Their “thinking” models think longer than they need to because you're paying by the token.
$20/MO MEMBERSHIPS LOSE MONEY
You're the product.
Your prompts train their next model. Enterprise API contracts are different — privacy is paramount — but the consumer tier? You're subsidizing their R&D.
WEAPONIZED INCOMPETENCE
Planned obsolescence.
Every major release follows the same playbook. The current model gets mysteriously worse for a few weeks. Then the new one launches and feels like a revelation. It's not a coincidence.
BENCHMARKS ARE THEATER
One-shotting an app that works but isn't what you actually need is a pointless metric.
Every launch comes with cherry-picked charts. “95% on SWE-bench!” Cool — can it refactor your existing codebase without breaking everything? Can it understand your project's conventions? Can it make something a human actually wants to use? Benchmarks measure party tricks. Shipping measures everything else.
Vera isn't a foundation model company. We're not even venture-backed. We have no incentive to lock you into one provider, upsell you on tokens, or train on your data.
We just want you to ship — with whatever model is best for the job today.
In AI, Trust is all you need
What the hell is going on
in AI?
A timeline of broken promises, silent changes, and eroding trust.
Nov 2024
OpenAI decides they're not a nonprofit anymore.
The company built on "safe AI for humanity" announces conversion to for-profit. $150B valuation > mission statement.
Jan 2025
GPT-4 Turbo silently degraded.
"Did GPT get worse?" trends on Twitter — again. OpenAI says nothing for weeks. No changelog. No acknowledgment.
Mar 2025
Anthropic rate-limits Claude Pro subscribers.
$20/mo "unlimited" plans hit invisible usage caps. Users locked out mid-conversation with no warning or explanation.
Jun 2025
Google promises 2M token context. Delivers ~500K.
Benchmark says 2 million. Production says "please try again later." Throughput promises quietly walked back.
Sep 2025
OpenAI deprecates GPT-4 with 60 days notice.
Thousands of production apps scramble to migrate. Pricing for the replacement? 2x more. Thanks for your loyalty.
Feb 2026
Claude Opus 4.5 launched — then quietly nerfed.
Initial release is stellar. Two weeks later, significant quality regression. No changelog. No warning. Just worse.
Mar 2026
"Mythos is too dangerous to release."
The same thing they said about GPT-4o. Manufacture fear, build hype, delay the launch, drop it anyway. Safety theater as a marketing strategy.
Apr 2026
Silent degradation across all major providers.
Rate limits lied about. Access tiers misrepresented. Models swapped behind the same version number. This is normal now.
This isn't a conspiracy. It's a business model. And if you're building on top of it without a layer of protection, you're at their mercy.
Vera StudioVera — Latin for “truth”
A new hope.
In a world where every AI company has an incentive to mislead you, Vera is built on one principle: the truth. What's working, what's not, and what you should actually use today.
Convention over configuration.
The right model is already picked for each task. You don't have to research which one to use.
Full transparency.
No black boxes. No hidden routing. No silent swaps. You see exactly which model is running, who made it, and why we picked it.
You're always in control.
Swap any default. Bring your own keys. Override anything. The defaults are just a starting point.
One bill. Every model.
Stop juggling API keys and credit balances across six providers. One account, one price, access to everything.