The Token Economy: Governing Claude in Production
A walkthrough of the four levers, the Token Strategy Charter, and the governance discipline that separates AI programs that compound from those that bleed.
This video walkthrough accompanies the whitepaper of the same name — covering the $312K incident that opens the paper, the four economic levers (model selection, workflow architecture, data pre-work, prompt literacy), the Token Strategy Charter planning discipline, and the Anti-Patterns Gallery. Intended for CTOs, Heads of AI Platform, and the Staff+ Engineers who implement their decisions.
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The Token Economy: A First-Principles Playbook for Governing Claude in Production
At 11:47 PM on a Thursday, a Series C fintech spent its entire monthly inference budget in four hours. The root cause wasn't a malformed JSON — it was the absence of a governance discipline that should have been established before a single line of code was written. This paper specifies that discipline: four levers, one planning artifact, one role, one cadence — in the vocabulary CFOs, CTOs, and Staff+ Engineers already use.
The Enterprise Playbook for Token Discipline
Production inference cost is governed by token discipline, not price-per-token. This episode walks through the four levers — model selection, workflow architecture, data pre-work, and prompt literacy — plus the Token Strategy Charter, the Token Architect role, and the Anti-Patterns Gallery. Built for CFOs, CTOs, Heads of AI Platform, and the Staff+ Engineers who implement their decisions.