Imagine paying a lawyer $800 an hour to read your contract, and then paying him again, by the word, to retype the one date you asked for. That’s how every AI pipeline bills today. A model reads your document, finds the answer, and then writes it out one word at a time while the meter runs. Ask “is this an invoice or a receipt” and a frontier model spends 30 or 40 generation steps typing a JSON object you already knew the shape of. The answer was one of two words. Both were sitting in the…