AI looks cheap in a demo and expensive in production. Token costs scale with users, context length, and retry logic. We help clients model total cost of ownership before they commit.
Token Economics
Cache embeddings, compress context, and route simple queries to smaller models. These three tactics alone can cut API spend by 50–70%.
Hidden Engineering Costs
Prompt iteration, evaluation suites, monitoring dashboards, and compliance reviews take real time. Budget for ongoing ops, not just integration.
Build vs Buy
Sometimes a managed API beats self-hosting. Sometimes the opposite. We run the numbers with you before recommending an architecture.