1. Classify
Understand task risk, privacy, quality needs and the available AI stack before choosing a model.
A proposed handoff layer for teams that plan in Claude, execute in Codex, review in Gemini and use local models for lower-value work.
Multi-model workflows can be powerful, but the handoff is usually manual: copy prompts, restate constraints, reattach files and hope the next model understands the project. That wastes tokens and creates inconsistent decisions.
Understand task risk, privacy, quality needs and the available AI stack before choosing a model.
Apply explicit policy instead of defaulting every task to the most expensive or most familiar tool.
Track useful outcomes, spend and exceptions so the routing policy improves from evidence.
Register your stack, biggest pain and reasonable price. That evidence determines what we build next.