Agent cost optimization · for teams spending real money on tokens

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We'll analyze your AI spend and show where money is being wasted.

We'll analyze your current AI usage and identify where costs are being driven by repeated context, model selection, and routing decisions. You'll see where the money is going before changing anything in your stack.

If we can't identify meaningful savings opportunities, we'll tell you. If we can, we'll show you exactly where they are.
Where the money goes

Most of an agent bill isn't new work. It's waste you're paying frontier prices for.

Three leaks show up in almost every agent stack. The free teardown measures exactly how big each one is on yours — no guessing from someone else's numbers.

Re-sent context

Your agent re-reads its whole history every loop, so you pay for the same tokens again and again — often the single biggest line in the bill.

Frontier prices for easy tasks

Formatting, extraction, and boilerplate run on a top-tier model when a far cheaper one would finish them identically.

No routing on outcome

Existing routers pick a model on price and latency — none check whether the task actually got done, so you can't safely route down.

How Watt works

Four steps. Your agent's interface never changes.

1

Classify

Each task is scored — reason vs. execute, hard vs. boilerplate — to decide what can safely route down.

2

Compress

Redundant re-sent history is stripped before the call is priced, while caches are preserved.

3

Route

Easy work goes to a cheaper model in your approved pool; hard reasoning stays frontier. Automatic failover.

4

Prove

Every call is logged against what it would have cost on the frontier — so savings are auditable, per task.

Routers pick a cheaper model. Watt also shrinks what you send it — and proves the quality held.

The honest answers

You're putting Watt in your hot path. Here's how that's handled.

These are the questions I'd ask before routing a dollar of production traffic. Straight answers — and the things still being built get marked as such.

Where does my data go?

You control the model pool. Nothing routes anywhere you haven't approved.

Default to your existing providers only (Anthropic, OpenAI). Add cheaper models when — and only when — you choose. No traffic goes to any provider you didn't opt into.

Is my data used to train you?

No. Your prompts are yours.

Watt learns routing from metadata — task type, model, cost, whether it passed your quality check — never your prompt or output content, and never to train a third party's model.

If Watt goes down?

Failover to the model directly.

Watt is a thin proxy with automatic fallback: if anything fails, the call goes straight to your frontier provider. The goal is that a Watt outage degrades to "no savings," never "no service."

Latency?

Classification is fast and cheap; compression cuts tokens.

Routing decisions run on a small, fast model, and sending fewer tokens often offsets the overhead. Latency is measured per task in your dashboard — if a route is slower, you'll see it.

Does it break my prompt caching?

No — caching is preserved.

Compression targets redundant history, not your cached prefixes, so your Anthropic/OpenAI cache discounts keep working alongside Watt's savings.

Will it work with my stack?

OpenAI-compatible. Streaming, tool calls, structured outputs pass through.

If your agent speaks the OpenAI API — Claude Code, OpenClaw, LangGraph, your own — it speaks Watt. One base-URL change; your request/response shape is unchanged.

What does it actually cost?

A share (~25–30%) of savings we can verify. Nothing else.

You see your measured baseline and the per-task savings math first. We keep a slice of the verified savings; your net bill still drops. No savings, no fee — and no seat fees or minimums.

How do you judge "quality"?

You set the floor. Borderline tasks auto-promote back to frontier.

Cheap-routed outputs are scored against a quality bar you control. Anything that dips below it is routed back to the frontier model automatically — you can start with the floor so high that nothing routes down until you trust it.

Design partners

10 design partners. Free integration. You see the savings before you pay.

July 2026 cohort · best fit if you spend ≥ $2k/mo on agent tokens · reviewed as applications arrive.

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Who's building it

Carol — founder, Watt

I spent years in M&A and financial due diligence — taking businesses apart to see where the money really goes. I'm now building Watt solo and dogfooding it on my own agent stack. I come at AI spend as a unit-economics problem, not just an engineering one: the goal isn't a clever router, it's a smaller bill you can audit line by line. That's why the first thing I do is measure — not pitch.

July cohort — 10 design partners

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Status: in active development · dogfooded on a live agent stack · onboarding design partners now.