More quality, less spend: a practical framework for your LLM stack
LLM decisions are typically made once and rarely revisited – not because teams are satisfied, but because there has been no systematic way to measure whether a different choice would be better. This guide walks through the 13 levers that determine your stack’s cost and quality, shows real benchmark data for each one, and gives you a framework for measuring and improving all of them continuously.
Before the framework, one data point. A 25-point quality improvement on a real benchmark run, with no model change. The only variable was the content in the RAG store.