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Removing 90% of your API spend — the audit framework

You can cut 90% of your API spend. Most folks just have no idea where the money is going.

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What you'll walk away with

A scene-by-scene walkthrough of every beat in the video. Plain English. Real numbers. Real workflow.

The walkthrough

  1. You can cut 90% of your API spend. Most folks just have no idea where it goes.
  2. Audit framework. Three steps. One afternoon.
  3. Step 1. Log every API call you make.
  4. Wrap your calls. Log prompt, response, tokens, cost. SQLite or CSV.
  5. Run it for a week. Don't change anything else.
  6. Step 2. Bucket by task type.
  7. Open the log. Sort by what each call was DOING.
  8. Classify. Summarize. Translate. Format. Plan. Debug. Novel.
  9. Add a column: percent of total cost.
  10. You'll be shocked. One bucket is usually 50–80% of your spend.
  11. Step 3. Move the routine buckets to local.
  12. Same decision tree from EP11. Routine + predictable = local.
  13. Move 'summarize'. Move 'classify'. Move 'translate'. Move 'format'.
  14. My own audit went from $200/mo to $20/mo. Your numbers will vary.
  15. Keep Claude for: planning. Architecture. Novel reasoning. The 10% that earns its keep.
  16. Repeat the audit every quarter. New buckets show up as you grow.
  17. Template in the description. Drop your logs in. Math runs itself.
  18. Log. Bucket. Move. That's the audit.
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