Automedon · The operating system in the novel
Stage 5: Costs and quality under control
You know what each AI task costs, you match models to jobs, and automatic checks catch bad answers.
In the book: The cost meter and the routed fleet
The floor
Every AI call is tagged with its task, model, and cost. Routine work moves to cheaper models, hard judgment goes to the most capable one, and automatic checks run after each answer. Error rates drop sharply.
What forces the next stage
A lesson one person learned that never reached anyone else.
The next moves
- Connect your records so the AI can see who a customer is, which account, what history, and what was decided before.
- Keep a dated record of what changed, when, and why. AI models forget everything between requests unless you give them this.
- Turn every human correction into a permanent update to the playbook, so one person’s lesson becomes the company’s.