Prompting an enterprise LLM to search the entire global internet—or an unstructured multi-terabyte data lake—every time an employee asks a basic question is an operational failure.
It is the computational equivalent of draining an entire reservoir every time you need a glass of water.
To control spiraling token costs, organizations must return to the proven principles of Collection Management:
- ➡️ Curate targeted sub-collections: Group corporate assets into discrete, curated repositories before applying retrieval tools.
- ➡️ Deploy a semantic layer: Use faceted taxonomies to slice and dice information sideways, narrowing the search space instantly.
- ➡️ Reduce single-shot queries: Stop paying compute fees for repetitive, unstructured searches across the entire corporate universe.
Efficiency isn’t about reducing capability; it’s about structuring your content highway so queries execute with maximum speed and minimum compute waste.
– Joseph Busch
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