Operating Note: Failure-Priced ROI Ledger Week

Token price alone hides operational failure cost.

Weekly ledger columns

• workflow or task class,
• model route,
• spend,
• failure/retry cost,
• human cleanup minutes,
• accepted outcomes.

Weekly loop

1. log for seven days,
2. compute comparable ROI proxy,
3. make one promote and one demote routing decision.

Bottom line

Failure-priced ROI keeps cheap-token illusions from distorting routing choices.