Our anthropic monthly bill went from $135k to $35k in 3 months. ARR almost doubled in the same period. Our goal? get it to ZERO by end of year. It all started three months ago. I was staring at that $135k invoice and had a realization that had nothing to do with cost. "Anthropic is not building for us anymore." It became crystal clear when I started looking at Anthropic as my landlord, and my app as the tenant. At Swan AI we were paying $135k a month in rent for a good building. The landlord kept renovating, and every renovation came with a higher bill. Then one day we looked around and none of the renovations were for us. The cheap units stopped improving. The penthouse kept getting better, and pricier. So we started moving out. we called it project Exodus. We ran the evals on open source models expecting a gap. there wasn't one. Not for the work that fills our customers' days.. scoring leads, updating the CRM, summarizing calls. Open source runs the day to day now. Anthropic only gets the handful of tasks that are genuinely complex. Performance didn't move. The bill did. The moment we started owning our tokens was the moment we took control over our business. What if training your own model becomes a click of a button.. would that kill your business, or make you unbeatable?