Meet the coaches, measurers, and builders carving out a slice of the AI cost-saving business0

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• August 3, 2026

Don’t use Swiss Army knives for surgically precise work; use scalpels. That’s what Manos Koukoumidis and other players in the AI cost-saving business say is the biggest problem with how companies use AI. They’re using the most powerful, versatile, and expensive AI models — from frontier labs like Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google — to handle niche