AcmeOps AI · Simulator
Pick the action that brings spend back under control
Northstar Logistics tripped the 120% AI budget guardrail and is unprofitable. Costara compares three actions: routing change, overage charge, or plan price increase. The recommended action reduces the loss with the smallest customer impact.
Current state: Northstar Logistics
Costara found this high-risk account after connecting this month's AI usage and customer revenue.
Status
Northstar Logistics is unprofitable this month. AI usage has pushed the account below zero gross margin.
- Monthly revenue
- $14,000
- AI cost
- $16,485
- Gross margin
- -$2,485
- Gross margin %
- -17.8%
Recommended action
The primary action Costara recommends to bring this account back toward margin control.
Primary action · Routing change
Route 90% of Contract Analyzer traffic from Claude Opus 4.7 to Claude Sonnet 4.6
Most Contract Analyzer prompts are extraction and clause comparison. Sonnet 4.6 handles most of those at lower cost. Keep Opus 4.7 for the 10% of prompts requiring deep reasoning. Route 90% of Northstar Logistics's Contract Analyzer traffic from Claude Opus 4.7 to Claude Sonnet 4.6.
Today, without action
Northstar Logistics
-17.8%
gross margin
- Revenue
- $14,000
- AI cost
- $16,485
- Gross margin
- -$2,485
With the recommended routing change
Northstar Logistics
+36.3%
gross margin
- Revenue
- $14,000
- AI cost
- $8,925
- Gross margin
- +$5,075
Monthly AI cost saved
$7,560
Gross margin improvement
+54.0 percentage points
Costara payback
One recommendation pays for Costara three times over.
AcmeOps AI pays $2,499/month for Costara. This single routing change saves $7,560/month on AI cost.
Monthly savings
$7,560
Costara price
$2,499 / month
Pays for itself
3.0x / month
Annualized: $90,720 saved against $29,988 in Costara fees.
Other actions considered
Costara also evaluates these alternative actions and reports their projected impact on gross margin.
Overage charge
Charge AI overage at cost
Bill Northstar Logistics for AI usage above the $5,600 monthly allowance, at a 1.00x pass-through rate. Cost is unchanged. Revenue rises to cover the overage.
Before
- Revenue
- $14,000
- AI cost
- $16,485
- Gross margin
- -$2,485
- Margin %
- -17.8%
After
- Revenue
- $24,885
- AI cost
- $16,485
- Gross margin
- +$8,400
- Margin %
- +33.8%
Monthly AI cost saved
$0
Gross margin improvement
+51.5 percentage points
Plan price increase
Increase Northstar Logistics's plan price by 30%
Raise Northstar Logistics's monthly subscription from $14,000 to $18,200. Cost is unchanged. The recovery comes entirely from price.
Before
- Revenue
- $14,000
- AI cost
- $16,485
- Gross margin
- -$2,485
- Margin %
- -17.8%
After
- Revenue
- $18,200
- AI cost
- $16,485
- Gross margin
- +$1,715
- Margin %
- +9.4%
Monthly AI cost saved
$0
Gross margin improvement
+27.2 percentage points
Next step
Apply the recommended routing change.
The dashboard tracks margin after the change lands. The guardrails page shows whether the tenant still needs an allowance or pricing action after routing. The demo walkthrough carries the full story end to end.