Jev front-routing: let Claude do only the work worth doing
A short-video version of the same idea lists the cheap fork decisions Jev handles inside an agent, with reported figures like about $0.08 for 1,000 papers and $0.035 for 500 emails.
whoever built this realized we’ve been using our smartest AI for the dumbest possible jobs your $20–$200/mo frontier model is researching, writing code, planning… and then you’re paying the same brain to decide YES / NO. Jev flips that. it’s a tiny decision model that sits in front of the expensive stuff and handles the boring forks: -> which agent goes next? -> is this worth researching? -> reply or ignore? -> publish, wait or escalate? -> BUY / SELL / HOLD? -> click this or keep looking? then I saw the numbers people are reporting and the whole architecture started making a lot more sense. ~1,000 papers classified for around $0.08 ~500 emails sorted for around $0.035 browser-agent loops demonstrated around 7 seconds for ~$0.0039 and at the quoted pricing, roughly 10,000 ~1K-token decisions comes out around $0.42. that’s not because Jev became smarter than Claude. it’s because nobody asked it to be Claude.