From a one-minute API call to a full human-in-the-loop engagement, side by side, with access and indicative cost.
Every offering in one grid, from standard AI on the left to the full Novamine engagement on the right. Read down for the benchmark scores, run time, fact checking, the industries each suits, then how to get it and what it costs.
Feature | Standard AI Any frontier model, asked directly. The benchmark baseline. The field | Novamini Lite One fast pass, compact answers API | Novamini Brainstorm The official NoveltyBench entry. First on the leaderboard on both measures. Official entry | Novamini Deep Dive The deepest Novamini run, with a live fact check API | Novamine Lite Live research and an adversarial pass Engagement | Novamine Full human-in-the-loop R&D consultancy engagement Engagement |
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| Output | What each offering hands back | |||||
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| Scores | NoveltyBench judge v1.1, out of 10. Standard AI is the incumbent frontier model at its best on the board; asked raw it scores 2.4 and 2.9. Our judge where no official run exists. | |||||
| Typical NoveltyDistinct score | 6.68NoveltyBench, incumbent frontier model | 7.5our judge, agency briefs | 9.30NoveltyBench | 9.0our judge | 9.2 to 9.4our judge | 9.5+our judge |
| Typical UtilityUsefulness score | 5.32NoveltyBench, incumbent frontier model | 6.5our judge | 6.65NoveltyBench | 7.1our judge | 7.9our judge | 9.5our judge |
| Speed and Checks | How long a run takes, and whether the answers are checked against sources. | |||||
| Typical Run Time | Under a minute | 1 to 2 minutes | 2 to 4 minutes | 8 to 15 minutes | 2 to 3 hours | 24 hours and more |
| Fact CheckingAnswers checked against sources | No | No | No | Yes Live fact check against current sources; not applied on advertising briefs | Yes Live internet research behind every answer, then an adversarial pass | Full adversarial An agentic red team attacks every claim until only the defended ones survive; our people in the loop |
| Industry Presets | Which industries each offering suits. Gold tick: yes. Grey cross: no. | |||||
| ScienceR&D | No | No | Yes brainstorm only | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Strategy | No | Yes brainstorm only | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Finance | No | No | Yes brainstorm only | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Legaland IP | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| AdvertisingMarketing, creative | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
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| Deploying In Your Organisation | How to get each offering, the shape it takes in your stack, and the API setting to send. | |||||
| How to Access It | Available to the public from any AI provider |
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| Engagement Type | Any chat product | API or white label chat bot | API or white label chat bot | API or white label chat bot | Consultancy engagement, light touch | Human-in-the-loop consultancy |
| API SettingThe effort value to send | n/a | effort=0 | effort=1 | effort=2 | n/a | n/a |
| Commercial Tiers | Novamine fee per generation, plus model cost at list price, by monthly plan | |||||
| Tier A£0 ($0) / mo, pay as you go | n/a | £0.90$1.20 + model cost | £1.50$2.05 + model cost | £3.75$5.05 + model cost | Coming soon | From £10,000($13,500) package, dependent on IP retentionTalk to us |
| Tier B£95 ($129) / mo | £0.70$0.95 + model cost | £1.20$1.60 + model cost | £3.00$4.05 + model cost | |||
| Tier C£295 ($399) / mo | £0.44$0.60 + model cost | £0.74$1.00 + model cost | £1.90$2.55 + model cost | |||
| Tier D£995 ($1,345) / mo | £0.15$0.20 + model cost | £0.26$0.35 + model cost | £0.74$1.00 + model cost | |||
| Tier E£2,495 ($3,375) / mo | £0.06$0.08 + model cost | £0.10$0.14 + model cost | £0.30$0.40 + model cost | |||
Every organisation now has the same AI, so every organisation gets the same derivative consensus answers. Novamine mines those same highly capable models for the verifiably novel answers, ideas, concepts and approaches that no other AI can access. Here's why that matters in your industry:

Same model, same consensus ideas, in the first draft and every draft after. The rival's deck opens with your headline, because you both asked the same AI.

Territories the room would not have reached, scored beside what the plain model gives everyone else, with the proof attached: novelty and utility measured on a public benchmark, so the boldest route in the deck is also the one you can defend in the pitch.

The consensus hypothesis, already in the literature. A year spent confirming what the field expected.

Candidate mechanisms the consensus model never surfaces, each paired with the experiment that settles it, on a full-strength model with its accuracy intact and verified in the deeper tiers: months of confirming the expected, skipped.

The standard reading, the one the other side has already priced into its position.

Positions no precedent covers and design-arounds no examiner has seen, surfaced in minutes, stress-tested against live precedent in the full engagement, and argued on your terms before filing rather than discovered in court.

The crowd's thesis, already in the price. More research to read, no decision to make.

Contrarian theses the crowd has not written yet, built to survive it, every number traced to its source and every uncertainty stated: a decision to challenge, not a pile to read.

Your competitors asked the same model. The decks read the same, and so do the moves.

The move your competitors have no ready answer to, which by definition is the move their consensus AI never suggests: built to leave the basin every other model settles into.

The known risks, listed well. The unpriced ones stay unnamed, because nobody asked for what was not on the list.

The exposures and opportunities nobody has priced yet, found across the whole portfolio before the market moves, so your actuaries and analysts price them first.
The engines you just tested ship in two shapes. The simplest is a hosted page like this one, re-voiced and branded for your organisation, with access codes for your team: nothing to install, working the day you sign. The deeper lane is a REST API your own tools call, which your engineers deploy however suits: an intranet page, a Slack bot, a tool your existing AI assistant invokes mid-conversation, a batch pipeline. If your systems team wants the engine wired into something specific, that is scoped integration work we take on with them. The full Novamine engagement is not an API: it starts with an NDA and a call, as the table above sets out.
For your engineers: one endpoint, POST /v1/generate, with simple request parameters: preset (marketing, strategy, general, insurance, finance, legal, science), engine (Claude, GPT, Gemini or Grok, or our tested recommendation), style (medium or high novelty), k (replies per run) and effort (0 Lite, 1 Brainstorm, 2 Deep Dive). Input and output length can be capped per call or per deployment for token control. An OpenAI-compatible endpoint lets it drop into existing tooling unchanged, and it speaks standard tool-calling, so the AI assistants your organisation already runs can invoke it mid-conversation. Long runs are available as asynchronous jobs with status polling, and per-key allowances and full usage logs come as standard.