Dissect
Take the workflow apart stage by stage and establish what each step actually produces.
Optimization that starts with dissecting your current workflow and determining what truly needs a model, and what should be handled differently.
It gets expensive, then slow, then hard to reason about — usually in that order, and usually without a single incident to point at. If any of the following is familiar, the cause is almost always structural rather than a model choice.
Spend climbs faster than traffic. Nobody can say which feature, which stage or which call is responsible, so the only lever left is to use the product less.
The same request is fast on Tuesday and times out on Thursday. Latency is fine in isolation and falls apart under concurrency, and the difference is invisible from the outside.
Work runs in sequence that could run in parallel, results are recomputed that were already produced, and every request pays for the whole chain whether it needed it or not.
Most pipelines route everything through a model because that is how the prototype worked.
Take the workflow apart stage by stage and establish what each step actually produces.
Separate what genuinely requires a model.
Structure data with lightweight compute
Restructure what remains — routing, caching, batching and concurrency, against real traces.
Hand over an orchestration layer that keeps the gains visible and the regressions loud.
Four layers of avoidable spend, resolved down to the work a model was actually needed for
A one-off optimization decays the moment someone ships a feature. Every engagement ends with an in-house orchestration layer, so the pipeline stays observable and the gains stay measurable after we leave.
Spend attributed down to the stage, the feature and the request — not the monthly invoice. When a number moves you can name what moved it, which is the difference between managing a budget and watching one.
Routing, batching and concurrency tuned against real traces rather than a benchmark. The target is not a faster best case — it is a tail that stops moving when traffic does.
The control plane runs in your infrastructure, against your models, under your keys. Full visibility across every workflow, and no new vendor sitting between you and your own production traffic.
The feature works and users want more of it, but unit economics say otherwise. The goal is to make the thing you already built affordable to run at the scale you already have.
You own the pipeline several teams depend on, and every one of them assumes their workload is the cheap one. Attribution settles that conversation with evidence.
No platform team, no observability stack, and a bill that is now a meaningful share of runway. The first audit usually pays for itself before the rebuild starts.
Not every team wants another system to operate. If you would rather hand the whole thing over, we will stand the pipeline up in your cloud, run it, and stay on the pager for it.
Managed does not mean moved. Everything runs in your account, under your keys, against your data. You keep the ability to take it back in-house at any point, because it was never anywhere else.
If you are only curious what the numbers would say, the audit stands alone. You get the cost map and the waste report whether or not anything follows it.