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Cloud & DevOps · June 8, 2026

Cost control for LLM features without killing UX

Caching, routing, budgets, and product design that keep AI spend predictable.

Publish a cost budget per feature before build. Use cheaper models for classification; reserve frontier models for hard reasoning. Cache embeddings and repeated prompts. Cap concurrency. Product design beats prompt thrift: ask fewer questions, retrieve less junk, stream thoughtfully. --- **Ready to put this into practice?** [Send a brief](/contact) — we’ll map Starter, Squad, ODC, or an Agent product sprint to your next 90 days.

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