Calculators

Interactive tools that turn each strategy framework into numbers you can play with. Pick a scenario, move the sliders, see the trade-offs.

Strategy

Build vs Buy: TCO Calculator

Compare cumulative cost across build, buy, and hybrid paths over your chosen horizon.

Run the calculator → Read the Build vs Buy insight

Economics

API vs Self-Host: Cost Crossover

Find the request volume where self-hosted inference starts to beat per-token API pricing.

Run the calculator → Read the AI Cost Curves insight

Infrastructure

AI Grid: Routing Calculator

Set the latency budget, sovereignty, and demand. Watch the eligible-region set collapse around your constraints.

Try the router → Read the AI Grid insight

Architecture

Agentic Patterns Explorer

Compare canonical agentic patterns side-by-side: trade-offs, fits, and worked examples.

Open the explorer → Read the Agentic AI Patterns insight

Cloud

Sovereignty Stack Composer

Pick a provider category per layer. The four metrics quantify your foreign-jurisdiction exposure, vendor concentration, switching cost, and proprietary lock-in.

Compose your stack → Read the Economic Sovereignty insight

Infrastructure

Compression Lab

Compose precision, pruning, distillation, and context length. Watch the footprint, VRAM bill, and hardware tier shift as you go.

Run the lab → Read the Model Compression insight

Media

Experience Budget Allocator

Pick an experience type and allocate latency across origin, regional, edge, and client tiers. The cost index shows what you pay for each millisecond.

Allocate the budget → Read the From Content Wars to Experience Wars insight