1. Classify
Understand task risk, privacy, quality needs and the available AI stack before choosing a model.
A local/cloud routing pattern for builders who want privacy and cost control without giving up frontier-model quality.
Local models can handle repetitive or sensitive tasks cheaply, but forcing every job local can reduce quality. Sending everything to frontier cloud models wastes paid capacity and increases exposure. The useful layer is a policy that decides when to stay local and when to escalate.
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.