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The bill nobody booked
The most expensive line item in your AI budget for the next two years is the one your finance team has not yet named. It is sitting in your environment already — half-built pilots, ghost fine-tunes, redundant copilots — capitalising itself into your monthly cloud invoice.
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Why You're Paying Twice for the Same Token
Any 2026 production agent stack without the three-layer caching pattern — engine prefix cache, API prompt cache, gateway semantic cache — is carrying a 30–60% avoidable inference bill. The pattern isn't subtle; it's just rarely implemented in the right order.
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