Software logic that evaluates incoming user requests and automatically routes simple, cheap questions to small models while reserving expensive models for complex queries.

A variant of "semantic routing" or "efficient model routing." It bestows high-level strategic executive master-plan status on a basic software switch statement.

• Executive Master-Plan Posture: Draping a basic `if/then` code check in strategic executive strategy language.
• Triple-Buzzword Stacking: Combining corporate terms to describe routing user queries to different models.
• Kitchen Reality Check: Like putting big apples in one bowl and small apples in another and calling it "strategic fruit routing."

The Princess Bride (1980s) scene where Vizzini outlines his strategic master plan while facing Westley, over-analyzing every single tactical choice.

Software code that evaluates incoming questions and routes them to small or large models based on difficulty.

“Strategic model routing cut our monthly API costs by 35% across support tools.”

“We set up software rules that send basic questions to a small, low-cost model and save our expensive model for complex tasks.”