Tokenmaxxing is out. How to minimize AI spend without sacrificing security capability.

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Security teams are discovering that the most capable AI models cost too much to run on routine, high-volume work, and they’re finding that out after the first invoice arrives. I lead a security operations team, and I’ve brought detection costs down to roughly $1 per day for trust and safety work. 

That number surprises people, because enterprise AI is supposed to be expensive. It isn’t, if you design the work correctly. The teams burning through budget are skipping the design work that determines which cases should reach a model at all.

The funnel is the cost lever

Detection funneling isn’t new. Before LLMs, security teams built layered filters to narrow high-volume event streams down to the cases worth a human analyst’s time. The same logic applies to AI spend. The narrower and more precise the funnel feeding your models, the lower your cost per accurate outcome.

“The narrower and more precise the funnel feeding your models, the lower your cost per accurate outcome.”

In trust and safety, most abuse is identifiable before any model runs. Deterministic, rules-based pattern detection captures a significant portion of volume upfront. Account age, email provider, and behavioral signals all feed automated filters that resolve the obvious cases and narrow what remains. Only the subset that clears those filters reaches an LLM. That’s where the dollar-a-day figure comes from. A well-designed funnel keeps expensive work to a minimum.

Think of it like a home security system. You don’t need a camera monitoring everyone who walks past your house. You care once someone’s actually …

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