Your 80% Margin Died the Day You Shipped AI
AI gross margin is the metric your board has not repriced yet. Inference turns software COGS from fixed to variable, and an 80% margin can f...
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The $0.09 That Quietly Doubles Your Cloud Bill
Cloud egress cost is the line nobody budgets until it doubles the bill. Why $0.09 per GB and cross-AZ traffic leak money at the network edge...
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Token Prices Fell 99%. Your AI Bill Didn't.
Token prices keep collapsing, yet AI bills keep climbing. The effective token cost barely moved in 2026. Why the price-drop headline is a tr...
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Prompt Caching: The 90% Bill Cut You Never Turned On
Prompt caching is the highest-ROI LLM cost lever in 2026, and most teams leave it off. How it cuts input token cost 60 to 90 percent, and th...
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Your Datadog Bill Is an Architecture Problem
Datadog cost does not explode because you monitor too much. It explodes because of cardinality and high-watermark billing. Where the observa...
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Per-Seat Pricing Is Dead. Your Margins Already Know
Per-seat pricing is dead, and AI is the cause of death. Why seat-based SaaS quietly caps revenue and wrecks margin, and the pricing model th...
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The Cheap Token Illusion: Why Low-Cost AI Models Bleed Production Margins
Evaluating cheap AI models in production requires looking past the sticker price. Discover how structural retry taxes and hidden compute blo...
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The Token Bloat Trap: Stop Paying LLMs to Read DOM Trash
LLM token cost optimization requires stopping the practice of sending raw HTML to frontier models. Learn why shifting data cleaning to local...
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Stop Scaling Headless Browsers: The Data Extraction Compute Trap
Scaling Puppeteer or Playwright is an incredibly expensive architectural mistake. You are paying cloud providers to render CSS and parse DOM...
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