
We Were Wasting Thousands on AI. Here's How We Fixed It.
And why we turned the fix into a product anyone can use. The Problem Started With Our Own Product My team and I were building Saasio — a no-code SaaS platform that lets users launch products without writing a single line of code. Like most modern platforms, we added AI capabilities so users could get things done faster: generate UI components, write copy, answer questions about their workspace, and more. At first, everything worked. Then our AI bill arrived. We were using Claude Sonnet and GPT for every request — from complex, multi-step code generation all the way down to a user asking: "What does the 'Publish' button do?" That's like hiring a neurosurgeon to put on a band-aid. Technically it works. Financially, it's absurd. But there was a second, subtler problem we almost missed entirely. The Mistake Nobody Talks About: Context Blindness Imagine one of our users building a car rental landing page with our AI assistant. The conversation starts strong: "Build me a car rental business
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