AI Architecture

Thirty thousand insurance claims a month, eight model calls each: the claims assistant this volume builds reads 3.72 billion input tokens a month, and with prompt caching on Claude Sonnet 5 its model bill at September 2026 prices is about $5,965. That is twenty cents a claim, less than one adjuster's monthly wage. The number that decides whether the system is safe to run is a different one: how many of its 240,000 outputs a month may reach a policyholder, or change a claim, before a person has read them.