Two frontier model swaps, one forced by the government, and customers never noticed

One of my frontier engines was swapped out by government directive, and on the same product a second swap followed with zero customer impact.

• An open-weight engine now costs about 30% of frontier list while the top models sit within a few points of each other, so sending every task to one premium model is just an expensive default.
• Every model's output, whatever its tier, faces the same 52,679 tests and the same 35-dimension harness on Orbyt, because the gate decides what ships, not the brand.
• Most companies trying to govern AI govern each model separately, but logging, kill switches, spend limits and a named owner all attach naturally at one layer that every request already flows through.

Read the full article: Every Company Is a Model Router.

This summary was written with AI assistance (Claude) from the full article at https://www.orbytlabs.ai/blog/multi-model-routing-strategy.