Running a 3-person AI agent startup. We build sales automation. $8k MRR, pre-seed, every dollar matters. First few months were chaos. Shipped fast, broke things, repeat. Three problems kept hitting us: Problem 1: API costs were unpredictable. We’d check Stripe on Monday and see we spent way more than expected. One week a test script ran over the weekend - $280 gone. Another time a customer’s edge case triggered a loop. Only found out from the invoice. Started routing everything through Bifrost. Set budget caps per environment. Dev capped at $30/day. Staging at $50. When limit hits, requests stop. Not alert and keep going. Actually stop. No surprise bills in 4 months. Problem 2: When OpenAI went down, we went down. Demo with a potential customer. Halfway through, responses started timing out. OpenAI was having issues. Demo died. Bifrost handles this. Anthropic as fallback. OpenAI fails, traffic routes automatically. Users don’t notice. Two OpenAI incidents since. Zero downtime on our end. Problem 3: Writing code was the slowest part. We’re 3 people. Can’t afford to spend days on boilerplate. Cursor changed how fast we ship. AI autocomplete that actually understands context. Probably saves us 10+ hours a week. The stack: Bifrost for routing, failover, budget caps Cursor for writing code Linear for not losing track of what we’re building None of this is exciting. But we stopped bleeding money and started shipping faster. At our stage that’s what matters. submitted by /u/Otherwise_Flan7339
Originally posted by u/Otherwise_Flan7339 on r/ArtificialInteligence
You must log in or # to comment.