Treg ships open source people search on Jev at $0.0089 a lead
The price and the benchmark ranking are both the builder's own numbers, and nobody else has run it yet.
Treg released a Jev-powered people search that plugs into any agent to find a person, priced at $0.0089 per lead. The code is open source with, in his words, 0% markup, and he posted the git repo alongside the announcement. TypeSafe AI reposted the launch.
Just $0.0089/lead, No more $600 subscriptions,
Fully open source, 0% markup
The pitch is aimed squarely at the subscription tools. Treg's post leads with "No more $600 subscriptions" and claims the tool is 85% cheaper than Clay, the sales data enrichment platform that lead gen teams usually sit on top of. He also claims the number one spot on people search bench accuracy.
What is actually established
Both of those claims come from the person who built the thing. There is no second party number in the sources, no breakdown of what the $0.0089 covers, no detail on how many leads the price was averaged over, and no published methodology behind the accuracy ranking. If you are costing out a pipeline, treat the per lead figure as a claim with a repo attached rather than as a measurement someone else reproduced.
That is a familiar shape for Jev builds priced against incumbent SaaS. Tony Dinh's translation harness landed in the same place, where a $124 a month i18n SaaS was replaced by a $0.75 run on his own key count. The difference here is that people search has a correctness axis that translation mostly does not. A lead that resolves to the wrong person costs more than it saves, and the accuracy claim is the part of this launch that is hardest to verify from the outside.
For people building on it
The useful thing about the open source release is that you do not have to take either number on faith. The repo is public and the cost model is a Jev call rather than a seat license, so the test is running it against a set of people you already have verified records for and counting how many come back right. That is a few hours of work and it answers the only question that matters before you put it in front of a sales team.
The second thing to check is what happens on a miss. The post describes a plugin that any agent can call to find anyone, which means the agent downstream is consuming whatever the search returns. Nothing in the announcement covers refusal behaviour or how the tool signals low confidence, and on a people search that is the difference between a quiet gap in your pipeline and a confidently wrong contact record.
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