1B tokens a month in January. Over 9.4B a day in September.
That number is not a flex, it's a byproduct. I spent years running dev teams: hiring juniors, onboarding them, mentoring them, and building the processes and tools that kept the work clean - cut the complexity, automate the repetitive parts, make sure nothing ships unreviewed. I was polishing that machine long before AI could write a line of code.
When the models got good, I didn't start over - I swapped who does the work. The same planning, build, QA and testing pipeline now runs on agents instead of headcount, 24/7, across Anthropic, OpenAI and Cursor models mainly. It burns a lot of tokens because I run several companies' roadmaps at the same time, with 7-10 top-tier accounts working in parallel. Output is what I'm judged on: high-quality software, reviewed and tested before anyone sees it.
Eight months of scale
Daily throughput, January to September 2026 - about 280x
Why the number is that big
An opinionated environment, built over years
Planning, build, QA and testing are four separate stages in my setup, each with its own rules, conventions and review gates - the same ones I wrote for human teams, now enforced on every run. Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, WebStorm and Wispr sit inside it, with whichever model is currently best at each stage. Tests come with the code, especially on the backend where a bug costs money, and nothing reaches a client system before it passes my security checks.
Many roadmaps at once, running around the clock
I hired, onboarded and mentored junior developers, then spent years cutting complexity out of how those teams worked and automating whatever a person shouldn't have to repeat. Agents need exactly that treatment - clear scope, clear conventions, someone checking what came back. The difference now is that several clients' features are being built at the same time, on 7-10 top-tier accounts, day and night. That is where the tokens go, and why they come back as working software instead of a pile of generated code nobody trusts.
Where I point it
B2B and internal tools. The stuff that decides how much work your company gets through in a week.
Internal tools that replace the spreadsheet
Almost every company I talk to has one file holding up a whole department. One person owns it, everyone else emails a copy around, and nobody can say which version is right. I replace that with a real system: one source of truth, permissions, an audit trail, and reports nobody has to rebuild by hand every Monday.
Process work, not just screens
Before I build anything I sit with the people doing the job and find where the time actually goes - the double entry, the manual reconciliation, the report someone assembles for four hours every week. Then I automate that part. Same headcount, a lot more output, and far fewer things done twice.
Ten-year-old company, millions in volume, still running on Excel?
That's the exact situation I like. Send me a message, tell me what the spreadsheet does, and I'll tell you straight what it would take to replace it. You won't regret the call.
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