Unit economics

Overview

Useful unit economics include inference, control-plane, retry, evaluation, human-review, and operational costs relative to a defined successful outcome.

• Choose a workload-level unit.
• Measure success and failure consistently.
• Include retries and escalations.
• Preserve model and provider attribution.
• Do not report projected savings as measured savings.

Production checklist

• Keep credentials in a server-side secret store.
• Set explicit cost, latency, privacy, provider, and regional constraints.
• Capture route and evaluation evidence for incident review.
• Test timeouts, cancellation, fallback, and denied-policy paths before rollout.