Inner-Intelligence | Cloudflare Platform Capabilities

Cloudflare Platform Deep Dive - June 2026

Everything we can build for free

Complete platform capabilities mapped to Inner Intelligence use cases. 30+ services, generous free tiers, 6-12 months before any upgrade needed.

Monthly cost (year 1)

30+

Services available on free tier

Monthly requests included

90%

Cost savings vs AWS/traditional

Compute

Serverless edge compute. No servers to manage. Code deploys globally in seconds.

NOW

Workers

100K/day

Backend API for booking, scheduling, user progress, AI engine, email triggers. 10ms CPU per request.

NOW

Pages

Unlimited bandwidth

Next.js landing page, blog, case studies, workshop pages. 500 builds/month, automatic HTTPS.

SOON

Durable Objects

100K/day

Real-time group breathwork sessions, live polling during workshops, shared state across connections.

NOW

Cron Triggers

Free (Workers quota)

Daily mindfulness notifications, weekly digests, monthly report generation, analytics sync.

SOON

Queues

10K ops/day

Async email campaigns, batch attendance confirmations, workshop reminders. Reliable FIFO delivery.

SOON

Workflows

10K instances/mo

Multi-day onboarding sequences. Email -> form -> payment -> content delivery. Durable, no timeouts.

Storage

Database, cache, objects, and vectors. All at the edge.

NOW

D1 (SQL)

5M reads/day

Users, bookings, progress, content metadata. 100K writes/day. 5GB storage. SQLite at the edge.

NOW

KV

100K reads/day

Session tokens, rate limiting, promo codes, API cache. Global <60ms reads. 1GB storage.

SOON

R2 (Objects)

10GB free

Breathwork videos, PDFs, slides, certificates, branding assets. Zero egress fees (huge vs S3).

SOON

Vectorize

30M dims/mo

Semantic search across sessions. Personalized recommendations via RAG. 5M stored dimensions.

AI / Machine Learning

Run open-source AI models at the edge. No GPU server, no cold starts.

SOON

Workers AI

10K neurons/day

58 models available. Text generation, embeddings, image gen, speech-to-text, translation. All free tier.

LLMs Embeddings Images Audio Vision Translation

SOON

Use Cases for Inner Intelligence

Personalized breathwork recommendations
Transcribe user wellness reflections
Generate personalized wellness plans
Summarize workshop feedback
Translate content (Dutch/English)
Content moderation
Semantic search across sessions

LATER

AI Gateway

Free tier

Unified API for all AI providers (Anthropic, OpenAI, Workers AI). Caching, rate limiting, cost control, fallbacks.

Email

Receive, process, and send. All programmatic.

NOW

Email Routing

Receive at *@inner-intelligence.org. Route to Worker (stores in D1) then forwards to Gmail. Unlimited routes.

NOW

Email Worker (custom)

Our Worker stores all inbound in D1. Agent reads via API. You read on phone via Gmail. Both see everything.

NOW

Resend (send)

100 emails/day free. Send as any@inner-intelligence.org. Agent-controlled. DKIM + SPF verified.

Security

Enterprise-grade protection. Free. No configuration debt.

NOW

Turnstile

Bot protection for signup/booking forms. No CAPTCHA puzzles. Privacy-preserving. Unlimited free.

SOON

WAF

SQL injection, XSS, CSRF protection. Managed rules. Rate limiting per endpoint. 30 min to enable.

NOW

SSL/TLS

Automatic HTTPS. Covers apex + subdomains. Auto-renewing. Already active on inner-intelligence.org.

LATER

Zero Trust

Secure admin dashboard access. MFA enforcement. Audit logs. Implement when team grows beyond 5.

Analytics

Understand visitors, measure outcomes, query programmatically.

NOW

Web Analytics

Visitors, pages, sources, devices, countries. No cookies, no consent needed. Unlimited pageviews. GDPR-free.

SOON

Analytics Engine

Custom metrics: breathwork completion rates, session duration, booking times, A/B test results. SQL queryable.

SOON

GraphQL API

Query all analytics data programmatically. Build internal ops dashboard. Agent gets daily reports.

Cost Comparison

Inner Intelligence on Cloudflare vs traditional cloud (AWS/Vercel/Supabase).

Monthly cost breakdown

CF (us)

$24/mo

Vercel+Supa

$75-150/mo

AWS stack

$235-600/mo

Service	Cloudflare (Free)	AWS equivalent	Savings
Compute	Workers: $0	Lambda + API GW: $50-100	$100/mo
Database	D1: $0	RDS: $80-150	$150/mo
Storage + CDN	R2 + Pages: $0	S3 + CloudFront: $50-200	$200/mo
Email	Routing: $0 + Resend: $24	SES + SendGrid: $20-50	$26/mo
Analytics	Web Analytics: $0	CloudWatch + GA: $20-50	$50/mo
AI inference	Workers AI: $0	Bedrock/SageMaker: $50+	$50/mo
Total	$24/mo	$235-600/mo	90% savings

Implementation Roadmap

Week 1-2Turnstile on forms. WAF rules enabled. Cron for daily notifications.

Week 3-4Queues for async email. Workflows for onboarding sequences.

Month 2R2 for videos/PDFs. Vectorize for search. Images optimization.

Month 3Workers AI for personalization. Durable Objects for live sessions. Analytics Engine.

Month 6+AI Gateway. Zero Trust. Paid plan only if 3M+ requests/mo.

Upgrade trigger: You won't need to pay until you exceed 1M monthly requests (estimated 12-15 months out). Workers paid plan is $25/month when that happens. D1 paid plan 24+ months out.

Architecture

        Frontend: Next.js on Pages (auto-deploy)

        Edge API: Workers (endpoints, webhooks)

        Real-time: Durable Objects (shared sessions)

        Database: D1 (users, bookings, content)

        Cache: KV (sessions, rate-limits, metadata)

        Search: Vectorize (semantic, recommendations)

        Storage: R2 (videos, PDFs, certificates)

        AI: Workers AI (plans, transcription, recs)

        Async: Queues + Workflows (email, reminders)

        Security: Turnstile + WAF

        Email: Routing (receive) + Resend (send)

        Monitoring: Web Analytics + Analytics Engine