Unify CTO breaks down how the team cut AI agent costs 95% in two weeks

LangChain · x · 2026-08-26

LangChain's Max Agency podcast interviews Unify co-founder and CTO Connor Heggie. Unify builds agents for go-to-market teams — but instead of replacing sales reps, its agent acts as "an engineer in their back pocket."

Key topics: cutting 90-95% of costs two weeks before launch; the 15-requests-per-second ceiling inside OpenAI's prompt cache; why your LLM judge must be a different model family; the Speed Audit (why one at a time beats a table of 1,000); why Unify's subagents are just a function call; and eval lessons Connor carried over from his self-driving startup days and Scale AI.

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