Spend the expensive model only on what earned it

A workflow that screens with a small fast model and only sends what survives to a large one, so most articles never reach the expensive step.

The problem

Running a frontier model on everything you read is the most expensive way to find out that most of it did not matter. The screening question is much easier than the analysis question, and does not need the same model to answer it.

The workflow

  1. 1

    Why This Matters a small, cheap model

    The screen. A small, cheap, fast model is entirely capable of deciding whether a story touches you.

  2. 2

    Show the Business Impact your best model

    The real reading, on a capable model, for the stories that got through.

What you put in

A steady stream of articles — a feed, a newsletter, a morning's headlines.

What you get back

The last step answers under these headings. They are read from Show the Business Impact itself, so this list changes when the template does — it is not a transcript of a run.

Setting it up

  1. Open the workflow builder and start a new workflow.
  2. Add the screening template as the first step and set its model to the cheapest one your provider offers.
  3. Add the analysis template as the second step and set its model explicitly to a capable one.
  4. Set the first step's effort low. Effort costs money on the models that have it, and a screen that thinks hard is not a screen.
  5. Save it, and watch the first month's provider bill rather than trusting this page.
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If it does not work

The cheap step passes everything through.

Its judgement depends on your profile. With nothing to measure relevance against it will not rule anything out, and the workflow degenerates into the expensive model running on everything — the exact thing it was built to avoid.

How much does this save?

It depends entirely on your pass rate and your two models' prices, so this page will not put a number on it. Both providers bill you directly; their dashboards have the real figure.

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