ComponentWhy it is unattributedcalls$ / run
Model · 38%Proposal synthesis (Claude Sonnet 4)The model ingests a stitched context of Salesforce opportunity fields, product/pricing data, and retrieved past-proposal passages, then writes a 3,000-5,000 token structured proposal with section-level citations.tokens in: 70,000 · tokens out: 5,500Visible on the invoice.4$0.29
Prompt · 12%Proposal template, brand voice, and pricing schemaAn 8,000-token prefix encoding the proposal structure, tone-of-voice rules, and pricing/discount logic is prepended to every call without prompt caching.tokens in: 32,000 · tokens out: 0Visible on the invoice.4$0.096
Orchestration · 10%Salesforce and Box ingestion, section routing, assemblyAn ingestion agent reads the Salesforce opportunity and pulls matching case studies from Box; a routing agent dispatches each proposal section to a sub-call; a merge agent assembles and formats the final document. Each is a billed model call.tokens in: 16,000 · tokens out: 2,000Salesforce and Box ingestion agents are logged as 'CRM sync' and 'content pipeline' steps by the integration layer, never attributed to the proposal workflow's cost center.8$0.078
Retrieval · 18%Past-proposal and case-study vector lookupsEach section call retrieves the most relevant chunks from a Box-backed index of prior proposals and win stories. Embeddings are regenerated on every run rather than incrementally updated.tokens in: 20,000 · tokens out: 0Re-embedding the Box content library on each run lands on the embedding-provider invoice, separate from the LLM spend the sales-ops lead reviews.12$0.14
History · 22%Prior-draft re-injection across revision cyclesEach revision run prepends the full prior proposal draft so the model can edit against its own output. A 5,000-token draft compounds to 20,000+ tokens re-billed across four revision passes.tokens in: 55,000 · tokens out: 0Revision context is framed as 'draft history' by the editor app; it appears nowhere in the per-run cost the sales team sees on the model dashboard.4$0.17
A tailored proposal costs ~$0.77 to draft; across a 25-rep team it is ~$14.5k/yr, and 50% is Box re-embedding, CRM ingestion hops, and prior-draft re-injection on every revision that no dashboard joins.