pricing
3 free lessons tagged pricing across Business, AI. Each one is a short sequence of focused steps with narration and a five-question quiz at the end — take them in any order, no signup required.
What Consulting Sells, and Which Parts Compress
Consulting bills for a bundle of research, analysis, synthesis and judgement, and AI compresses those unevenly. This lesson separates them, examines which parts clients were actually paying for, and confronts the pricing problem that follows when the visible artefact becomes cheap to produce.
The chicken-and-egg problem
A marketplace with no buyers has no sellers, and with no sellers has no buyers. Learn how platforms solve the cold-start problem that kills most of them, why the answer is usually to subsidize one side heavily, how pricing in a two-sided market breaks the normal rules of business, and the concrete tactics, from faking one side to going town by town, that actually ignite a network.
LLM Pricing and Latency: What Actually Drives Cost
How frontier LLM costs and latency actually work in 2026 — input vs output token asymmetry, prompt caching, batch API discounts, TTFT and tokens-per-second, reasoning-model amplification, and when self-hosting breaks even.