Enterprise AI Cost Control

Gating and reusing AI work so the expensive frontier layer is the exception, not the default. Cost control for enterprise teams running LLMs at scale.

AI Has Started Behaving Like a Utility

I ran out of AI. Not electricity. Not water. Not internet. AI. I had exhausted the allowance on one of the highest plans available from a major lab, and the reset was still hours away. I pay for top plans across the major providers, so another endpoint was available. I also spend money every month on end-user APIs for small projects that do nothing glamorous. They remove friction from my life, one repetitive task at a time. ...

In the Long Run, Economics Wins

Two postures have hardened around the cost of AI, and most leaders have already picked one without registering it as a choice. The first says zero dollars per token. Own the silicon, run the weights locally, drive the marginal cost of a query to nothing. Apple’s M3 through M5 put a capable model on a machine that fits in a backpack, NVIDIA’s GB10 desktop box puts a small token factory under the desk, and the appeal is clean: no meter, no vendor, no bill that grows every time the team does its job. ...