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AI Economics

Model Routing

Sending each task to the least expensive model that meets its quality and risk requirements, with escalation when needed.

Model Routing is sending each task to the least expensive model that meets its quality and risk requirements, with escalation when needed.

It appears repeatedly across the KUOS case library because leaders need it at a real decision point: defining a boundary, assigning an owner, choosing evidence or deciding whether to scale.

Use it in practice by naming one current workflow, the accountable human, the evidence you expect and the condition that would make you change course.

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Decision context

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OPTION B

Chosen route

Compare choices against the same operating boundary.

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