Premium research / October 11, 2026
The Decision Layer: Stop Paying Frontier Prices for Yes-or-No Answers
A new class of AI model answers a question with a typed decision instead of prose, at four cents per million tokens. The playbook for heads of AI platform, workflow owners and finance: find the decisions hiding in your AI workflows, rewrite them as questions a decision model can answer, test them in two weeks, route by confidence, and decide when a new vendor is worth adding.