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Step 1 — What does your pipeline need to do?

Pipeline Capability Requirements

Code generationWrite, complete, or refactor code inside a stage

External API / data fetchPull from Auvik, ServiceNow, M365, backup tools

Logic review / QAIndependent check of output — not the same agent that built it

Human-in-the-loop gatePipeline pauses and waits for a human to approve before continuing

Conditional routingDifferent path based on priority, failure state, or agent judgment

Auto-retry on failureIf a stage fails, route back automatically with error context

Risk / anomaly assessmentJudgment calls beyond pass/fail — business risk, severity scoring

Parallel agent tasksTwo agents working simultaneously on the same ticket

Structured report outputAgent writes a formatted doc (IT Glue, Word, HTML incident report)

Long-running / resumePipeline runs for hours, needs to pause and pick back up

Step 2 — Who is using this and how often?

Users & Volume

Number of end users End UsersEveryone who triggers or consumes the pipeline. Drives all estimates below.eg. 100 staff at your MSP

Everyone who will use or trigger agents — drives all estimates below

Auto-calculated from end users ↓

Copilot Business seats Copilot seats$19/user/month flat. Only engineers writing code need a seat — not end users.eg. 5 devs building agents, not the 95 consuming output

$19/user/mo · edit if not all users need Copilot

User-driven runs / day User-driven runsPre-set to 1× end users as a baseline. Change to match your actual workflow.eg. Ticket tool = 5–10/day · Broadcast storm = 0.1/day

⊙ Set to 1× end users · edit freely

Additional runs / day Automated runsScheduled jobs, monitoring alerts, or webhooks not tied to a user.eg. Nightly backup check = 1 · Alert monitor = 24

Scheduled / event-triggered runs not tied to a user

Token caching (-50% input cost · Anthropic Prompt Cache)

Success rate %

Working days / month Working daysBusiness days the pipeline runs. Use 22 for standard M–F.eg. 22 typical · 30 if the pipeline runs weekends too

Avg steps per run Steps per runHow many pipeline stages fire on a typical run — not every run hits every stage.eg. Full investigation = 5–6 · Simple summarizer = 2–3

How many pipeline stages fire on avg

Step 3 — Assign a model to each pipeline stage

Per-Stage Model Selection

Haiku 3.5 — $0.25/$1.25 per MTok

Sonnet 4 — $3/$15 per MTok

Opus 4 — $15/$75 per MTok

OpenAI Vision/Image

Not used = $0

Stage	Model for this stage	Cost/mo
Idea / Planning		$0.00
Scoping / Planning		$0.00
Visual / Design Dept diagrams · mockups · image gen	Vision = reading/analyzing images · DALL·E = generating images	—
Build		—
Test / Validate		$0.00
Pending Review		$0.00
Live / Deploy		—

Step 4 — Orchestration framework

Framework Overhead

LangChain — Open source, no platform cost

$0platform fee

LangSmith / LangGraph — Tracing + debugging included

$39/mo (10K traces)

Custom / None — Direct API calls, you manage state

$0platform fee

Live Estimate

Recommended Agents

Select capabilities above

Monthly Pipeline Runs

220

100/day × 22 days (100 users)

Est. tokens / Claude stage changes with capabilities

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Monthly Cost Breakdown

Claude API — all stages (input)$0.00

Claude API — all stages (output)$0.00

Copilot Business seats$0.00

Framework platform$0.00

Est. Monthly Total$0.00

Token Usage Estimate

Stage	Model	Cost/mo

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Rough ROI Sanity Check

Setup hours (one-time)

Dev hours to build & deploy

Setup rate ($/hr)

Hours saved / run Hours savedHow long this task takes a human today, minus any remaining manual work after the agent.eg. Ticket summary saves 6 mins = 0.1 hrs · Storm investigation saves 2 hrs

Eng. rate ($/hr) Engineer rateFully loaded cost of the person whose time the agent replaces. Use blended rate if multiple roles.eg. $75 helpdesk · $120 senior engineer

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Value of time saved—

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