
This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.
When a new top-tier model ships, every client asks the same question that week: should we switch? Most teams answer it badly. They either move everything to the newest model and overpay for reasoning their traffic never needed, or they wave it through as "just a config change" and discover the hard way that a model change can shift tool-calling behaviour, output shape and latency together.
This course gives you a third answer: a repeatable, evidence-based method you run on the client’s own data, and can run again at every future launch.
What you will actually be able to do
Built around one consulting engagement. Every concept lands on NorthPeak Financial Services, a lending firm running three Claude workloads nobody has re-examined since launch: a code-migration agent, a support-triage system with a surprising bill, and a contracts pipeline. You make their decisions with real numbers attached.
Two hands-on exercises. You will send real requests to multiple models, compare latency, tokens and output quality at different effort settings, and fill two scorecards that turn into a client recommendation. Total API spend stays under two dollars.
Who this is for: consultants, solution architects, developers, delivery managers and sellers who advise clients on Claude deployments. You should be comfortable with the idea of calling a model API; you do not need prior experience with the Fable tier.
You will leave with a method that outlives any single model launch, because a filled-in scorecard is what wins the right-sizing conversation, not a benchmark slide.