Series · 3 parts
The Token Economy
A strategy and architecture series on token economics, model portfolios, and AI factory operations.
In this series
All writing- The Token Bill Nobody's Ready ForA single power user can generate 10-50 million AI tokens per day. Multiply that across an enterprise, and the math changes everything. Token economics is becoming the defining constraint of enterprise AI.
- The Enterprise Model PortfolioThe answer to the token economics problem isn't one model — it's a portfolio of six specialized model types served as internal API services. Near-frontier open models now handle 80–90% of enterprise tasks at a fraction of the cost.
- Operating Intelligence at ScaleThe economics of enterprise AI are now driven by routing, compression, caching, and infrastructure control. The AI factory pattern — dedicated GPU environments with federated routing — is becoming core enterprise infrastructure.