The Automation Group
    FIG. 00 · WHITE PAPER

    The currency of intelligence

    Token economics: how to stay in control of AI costs in the agentic AI era. A white paper by The Automation Group for founders, CTOs and engineering leads serious about AI.

    WHAT YOU'LL LEARN6 levers, 1 system
    • What tokens are and why reasoning + tool calling drive the bill
    • The 2026 model market: frontier, workhorse, fast & cheap, EU-sovereign, open-weight
    • The LLMflation paradox: price per token drops, total bill grows
    • The 6 levers: model choice per task, routing & delegation, caching/batching, self-hosting, subscriptions, FinOps
    • Loop engineering with built-in BUDGET and STOP blocks
    • Decision tree: which model for which task — and when to self-host?
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    PDFFormat
    2026Edition
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