Basketball AI coach

Server placement: CPU budget combines Next.js, API, ingest, Redis/RQ and MLflow/CVAT on self-managed VMs. Mid uses two $48 VMs; no separate managed Redis fee is included. Supabase covers app metadata and login. Training and inference use rented GPU capacity, not an owned GPU server.

GPU: RTX 4090 planning anchor $0.89/hour. GPUs must be stopped when idle. 730 GPU-hours cost $650 for one always-on GPU before disk and transfer. Mid assumes 4 inference GPU-hours/game plus 80 training hours/month; this is not a measured throughput claim. Larger models or retries increase the total.

Storage: 90-day steady-state retention, 25% derived-media overhead and the scenario’s fixed research dataset. First-year TCO uses this steady-state run rate for all 12 months, conservatively ignoring initial storage ramp-up. $0.025/GB-month is a rounded S3 planning allowance, not a confirmed regional quote; $0.09/GB egress is an AWS public pricing reference. Includes one full footage read for inference and one playback equivalent, plus training reads. Free allowances are not credited.

Hardware CAPEX per venue: camera $300 + capture device $250 + local storage $150 + mount/network/power hardware $100 + installation $200 = $1,000. Rough allowance range $500–$1,800, not a selected hardware quote. Assumes one camera and existing internet; court coverage, recorder compatibility, installation and local prices need validation. Existing hardware can reduce incremental CAPEX.

Excluded: taxes/VAT, import/shipping, exchange-rate changes, footage licensing, annotation/review labour, engineering, support labour and enterprise availability. These totals are infrastructure + capture-hardware TCO, not full project cost. Hardware CAPEX is cash spend; accounting treatment and depreciation are not modelled.

Optional people-cost illustration: initial engineering 240 hours × $40 = $9,600 one-time; pilot annotation/review 40 hours × $20 + operations 8 hours × $40 = $1,120/month. These are editable planning assumptions, not market salary rates. Add $23,040 to a 12-month pilot TCO if these assumptions apply. Engineering spend is not automatically classified as CAPEX.

Phased first year: per-scenario TCO means 12 months at that stage; do not add three 12-month totals. A staged plan can use 3 × short monthly OPEX + 6 × mid + 3 × long + hardware purchased once. People costs remain separate.