Common questions
Free, trials and limits
What happens if I hit my free limit?
It depends on which limit you hit. Nothing you have connected or built is deleted in any of these cases.
- RubyConnect's monthly tool calls
- After 10,000 calls in a calendar month, your AI client gets a short message saying the monthly limit is reached. Calls resume on the 1st, or right away on any RubyPlaybooks plan.
- Your 14-day trial
- When the trial ends, or its credits run out first, chat and playbooks pause until you pick a plan. RubyConnect keeps working.
- Your plan's monthly credits
- If auto top-up is on, Ruby adds credits at your plan's rate and keeps going. If it's off, she pauses until you add credits, move up a plan, or the month renews.
Is there a free trial? Do I need a card?
Yes. RubyPlaybooks comes with a 14-day free trial that starts when you connect your first tool, with 1,000 credits for each tool you connect, up to 4,000. You don't need a card to sign up or during the trial. When it ends, chat and playbooks pause until you pick a plan, and RubyConnect stays free.
Can I stay on free forever?
Yes, on RubyConnect: it's free for normal daily use. Ruby's chat and playbooks are RubyPlaybooks, which you can try free for 14 days and then keep on a plan.
Is RubyConnect really free?
Yes. Free forever up to a monthly tool-call limit that covers normal daily use. Need more? See Pricing for the RubyPlaybooks plans.
Can I cancel anytime?
Yes. Monthly plans cancel at the end of the cycle. Your RubyConnect connection stays free.
Playbooks and credits
What are Playbooks?
The work Ruby runs for you on a schedule, a trigger, or when you ask: documentation checks, denial-risk flags, dispatch readiness, settlement invoicing, and apps like a job board. Ruby builds each one with you, from an idea or your own description, and you refine it until it fits how your shop runs.
Can I build my own playbook?
Yes. Describe what you want in plain language and Ruby drafts it: the steps, the checks, the output. You refine it, you run it, it's yours.
How do credits work?
Every RubyPlaybooks plan includes a monthly pool of credits that every chat and playbook run draws from. One flat price covers your whole company, however many locations and people you have. The pool refreshes each billing month and doesn't roll over.
If the pool runs dry, auto top-up adds credits at your plan's rate in the amount you choose, and those credits roll over. It's on by default for new plans, and you can turn it off any time in Billing. You can also move up a plan any time; the bigger pool lands right away, prorated for the rest of the month.
What's the difference between RubyConnect and RubyPlaybooks?
RubyConnect is the connection layer. It gives any AI access to your tools, and it's useful on its own. RubyPlaybooks adds Ruby herself: her chat, one picture of your jobs across every tool, answers grounded in restoration standards with sources cited, and the playbooks and apps she builds with you. With RubyConnect alone, a general-purpose AI reads your data; with RubyPlaybooks, Ruby reads it knowing the trade.
What is RubyStudio, and what does it cost?
The team behind Ruby, building with you. We build a playbook or app around your SOPs, your systems and your standards, at a fixed price per job function from XS ($500) to XL ($10,000), sized before we start. Every build ends as a playbook running on your plan.
Tell us what you'd want built and we'll reach out.
Does Ruby get better as I connect more systems?
Yes. Every system you connect widens what she can see and tightens what she can resolve. With one tool connected she answers questions; with your whole stack connected she answers the questions that span it, which are the expensive ones.
Ruby and your data
What does "payment intelligence" mean?
Ruby's playbooks are informed by a decade inside restoration billing: what carriers dispute, what they cut, what they settle, and what they deny, learned across 100,000+ claims. That experience is built into how she reads a file. It's the difference between grading your documentation against the standard of care and grading it against the carrier's standard of payment.
Everyone is launching restoration AI now. How is Ruby different?
Most of it falls into two buckets. A vendor's built-in assistant is smart inside its own system and blind to the other five your jobs run through. A general AI with connectors can reach your data but knows nothing about the trade, remembers nothing between sessions, and has no stake in whether you get paid. Ruby reads across your whole stack, grounds answers in the standards of the trade, and grades your file against the carrier's standard of payment, what they dispute, cut, and pay, because she is built on both ends of the chain: the field record and the check that cleared, across 100,000+ claims. See Why Ruby for the side by side.
Is my data safe?
Every connection is scoped, permissioned, and audited, and your data is isolated to your tenant. Ruby's access runs through the same permission layer a human user would have, and a human reviews anything external before it sends.
Who built Ruby?
A team with a decade inside restoration billing and 100,000+ claims behind them. We've spent that decade getting restoration contractors paid, and Ruby puts that experience into software.
What can I use RubyConnect in?
Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, and any other AI client that can use connectors, including whatever ships next. It also works in Ruby's own app.