Northwind Q3 cost review

Northwind Retail Group · A. Okafor · Platform Engineering · window 2026-07-24 → 2026-08-28 · EU residency

Scope

Resolved from the filter, pinned to sealed snapshots

Knowledge BaseCustomer SupportCatalogue

Excluded: −gemini-2.5-flash— 2,001 calls removed from every figure here.

Each carries its own scope; the budget above covers all of them

2026-07-24 → 2026-08-28 · excluding gemini-2.5-flash

label · app=knowledge-base

read from a log label · 3 workloads

Document Summarisercomplex-agenticinferred from logs
wf-8f3a21c9 · confidence high
$29,200
MEASURED
Internal Searchmoderateinferred from logs
wf-5c22e918 · confidence medium
$1,200
MODELLED
Meeting Notessimpleinferred from logs
wf-2ad88e71 · confidence high
$240
MODELLED

declared · declared by customer

the customer told us this name · 2 workloads

hash · sha256:4f1c…9ab2

derived from a fingerprint — no label existed · 2 workloads

Product Classifiersimpleinferred from logs
wf-77c1d3aa · confidence high
$2,400
MODELLED
Contract Extractortier unknown — we couldn't tellinferred from logs
wf-b61f4c0d · confidence low
$560
ASSUMED

2026-07-24 → 2026-08-28

cannot say — no account is selected for this project, so it contributes nothing

Set up once, executed on a schedule

Weekly — documentsweekly

next 2026-09-08

Three stages — A to C already happened on the connectors

1
Recommendation
Turning each classified workload into a concrete target configuration.
2
Replay
Re-running real traffic against the proposal and judging the output.
3
Cost report
Pricing today, three alternative futures, and writing it down.