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Checklist: Budgeting an AI app before you build it
The checklist from the article.
Price the model API cost as a monthly operating expense, not a one-time fee.
Write a real test set of inputs and correct answers before writing the feature.
Score the cost of a wrong answer — annoyance, wasted time, or real financial or safety harm.
Size your guardrails to match that cost, not to match the model you chose.
Set a monthly budget line for model spend that scales with usage.
Check each proposed AI feature against a simpler, non-AI alternative first.
Plan a review cycle for re-running evaluation whenever the model or prompt changes.
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