Methodology
Intelligence is the new electricity.
Our entire focus is one question: how good is each answer — per call, and across calls — and how do we keep delivering that same quality at an ever-lower price? We measure it relentlessly, prove it on your traffic, and pass the savings to you. If a call isn’t as good, it’s free.
Our philosophy is to commoditize the cost of intelligence so far that anyone, in any country, can use it as readily as water — and change the world with it.
That only works if quality is never the price of cheaper. So we built the measurement first: every answer scored, every route verified on real traffic before it ships, every saving you can check yourself. The cheaper we make intelligence without losing the quality, the more of the world gets to build with it.
Four pillars
Cost down, quality held.
Each method has to hold quality on your own traffic before it ever serves a request. The list grows over time — these are the load-bearing four.
Quality
Layered, expanding methods — exact-match caching (byte-identical responses, more deterministic than the provider itself), shadow-testing on your own traffic before any route ships, automated conformance checks (schema / tool-call / structured-output validation on every routed call), and capability-aware routing that never downgrades tool-calling or structured steps.
Determinism
A measured consistency score — exact-match cache hits are 100% deterministic. Published in aggregate, and exposed per-account on your own traffic, because aggregate numbers alone are just marketing.
Latency
Measured p50 / p99, cache-hit speedups, and a bounded routing-overhead ceiling — a number, not an adjective. Published here and in every case study.
Reliability
Automatic provider failover, retry/backoff, and an SLA with teeth. On a conformance failure we fall back to the pinned model and serve a valid response, or return a catchable error — detection plus correction, so an unattended agent never silently ships a broken turn.
Verify every call
A signed receipt for every request.
You don't take our word for the savings or the model. When any optimization fires, the per-call receipt grows into a full inference manifest you can reconcile yourself.
- ·The model and provider that served the call
- ·Your price vs. the going-direct price
- ·The upstream request id — reconcilable against your provider bill
- ·Which optimizations fired (and, when enabled, the prompt diff + precision)
Prompt rewriting and quantization are opt-in and off by default. In strict mode your call is a verbatim, full-precision pass-through to the exact model you named — savings come only from sourcing, caching, and fallbacks.
See it in practice in the case studies and benchmarks — including latency and reliability, not just cost — or watch your own numbers add up in the console.
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