Why agent cost and latency are the same problem

Most teams treat token spend and response time as two separate dials. In practice they move together: the same prompt bloat that inflates your bill also slows every call, and the same redundant model hops that add latency also multiply cost.

One lever, two wins

When you compress a prompt, cache a repeated sub-call, or route a request to a smaller model that can still handle it, you usually shave both dollars and milliseconds at once. That’s the core bet behind TKM-AI: optimize for efficiency and quality follows, because the wasteful paths were never adding accuracy in the first place.

This is an illustrative first post — replace it with real writing as the blog grows.