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AI-COST-OPTIMIZATION5 MIN READ

Before and After: Confidence-Gated Model Routing

Design a routing gate that sends only uncertain cases to a stronger model while preserving quality evidence.

The procurement assistant needs a routing policy that pays premium prices only for uncertain supplier-risk decisions. Before: one premium route for every supplier note. After: confidence gate with explicit escalation. Routine renewals moved to a cheaper qualified route, because routing should pay for stronger reasoning only where quality actually changes. Missing fields and policy conflicts now escalate, because the quality gate preserves judgment for cases with real ambiguity. Stable policy context stays pinned before supplier facts, because cached input can reduce repeated policy-context cost across requests. Weekly audit sampling moved to Batch, because quality review can be asynchronous while live…

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