Lean AI engineering

AI that does more with less.

SimpleStatus designs and ships small, efficient AI systems. Fewer tokens, smaller models, and less energy for every answer, without giving up the quality your team needs.

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Right-sizedSmallest model that meets the bar
Local-firstRun on hardware you already own
MeasuredTokens and watts tracked per feature
PrivateSensitive data redacted by default

Most AI spend is waste.

Oversized models, bloated prompts, and calls that never needed a model at all. We remove the waste first, then build what's left.

  1. AuditTrace where tokens and compute actually go across your workflows.
  2. TrimShorter prompts, caching, retrieval, and deterministic code in place of model calls.
  3. Right-sizeMatch each task to the smallest model that passes your evals.
  4. MonitorDashboards for cost, latency, and energy so savings don't quietly regress.

Solutions

Practical engineering for teams that want AI in production without a runaway bill.

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Token optimization

Prompt compression, response caching, structured outputs, and routing that cut token use on real workloads.

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On-device & edge inference

Speech, classification, and extraction on modest CPUs. No GPU cluster, no per-call API fees.

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Model routing

Send easy work to small models and escalate only when needed, with evals guarding quality.

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Privacy by design

Automatic redaction of personal identifiers before data is stored, searched, or published.

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Usage observability

Per-feature tracking of tokens, latency, and estimated energy so you can manage what you measure.

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Pipelines & dashboards

Ingest, transcribe, tag, and present real-time data through fast, lightweight web apps.

Green by default, not by press release.

The cleanest token is the one you never generate. Every request we avoid, every model we shrink, and every job we move onto existing hardware reduces energy use and cost together.

We favor efficiency you can verify: smaller models, batching and caching, idle-friendly services, and static pages that load in kilobytes. This one included.

In production

Our own systems are built to the same standard we recommend.

Bloomington Scanner

A real-time public-safety radio transcription service for Bloomington and Monroe County, Indiana. Software-defined radio feeds a speech model running on a single commodity CPU box, with no GPU and no cloud inference, and a lightweight web dashboard with searchable, alert-ready transcripts. Personal identifiers are redacted automatically.

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Spending too much on AI?

Tell us what you're running. We'll show you where the tokens go and what a leaner version looks like.

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