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Notes from building GTM Intel in Rust: the tradeoffs, the numbers, and the places we got it wrong before we got it right.

July 20, 2026

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What we found once we dug into our LLM bill: a local embedding pre-filter, a split triage/classify funnel, and one tradeoff we shipped with a warning comment attached instead of pretending it was settled.