For people building agents and constantly testing “which API is best”, it might be worth looking at Orthogonal (YC). They give agents a single interface to discover and pay for lots of APIs, so you can experiment without hard‑wiring everything yourself: orthogonal.com.
For production agents, the low-cost API question only gets useful after the workflow boundary is named. In OR-adjacent work, I would rather start with a narrow readiness loop, define what evidence the agent can actually see, and specify where it must stop for human review before optimizing the tool stack.
For people building agents and constantly testing “which API is best”, it might be worth looking at Orthogonal (YC). They give agents a single interface to discover and pay for lots of APIs, so you can experiment without hard‑wiring everything yourself: orthogonal.com.
For production agents, the low-cost API question only gets useful after the workflow boundary is named. In OR-adjacent work, I would rather start with a narrow readiness loop, define what evidence the agent can actually see, and specify where it must stop for human review before optimizing the tool stack.
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