My token bill says my development runs burned over 100 million tokens of inference. The budget layer in this system exists because I am the one paying that bill.
A 4-stage pipeline around Claude Code: analyze, implement, test, review. Budget limits that can't be bypassed, and quality gates that run before you see anything.
Everything below was shipped solo by Michael Lip
The row below is my own ledger. The failures are printed in it too.
10 live products, all built with this pipeline
Most visitors land on one calculator here, use it, and leave. Good. The tools are free and stay free. I also run a set of Chrome extensions, and the machinery that keeps the whole portfolio going is for sale as five things, each bought once, source included. Three are pipelines with their own sites, and two are sold here. I logged about 1,000 hours building the three pipelines, and my token bill says their development runs burned over 100 million tokens of inference. What you would buy is the machinery with its evidence shown, not a traffic outcome.
The three above are sold on their own sites. The two sold here are the ml0x Pipeline and Training Run Triage, both $99 once with a 60-day refund. All five live at ml0x.com/x, with each refund window stated again on its own product page. If none of this is your problem, keep the calculators. They stay free either way.
The system is built for one person and sold once. The documents that ship with it specify every gate and every threshold. Read the free calculators on this site first if you want to judge the code before paying anything.
Without routing, every query hits Opus at $75/M output. With ml0x, 74% go to Flash at $0.28/M. You'll recoup the $99 in your first afternoon.
RouteLLM (ICLR 2025), Anthropic caching docs
The loop I run my own 40 extensions and 33 sites on, packaged and pinned at a version. The core is MIT and free on GitHub, and the product page says so before it asks for anything. No subscription. The calculators stay free.
I also build small, exact tools that run inside Claude and ChatGPT. You ask in plain words and get a checked result or a file in the same chat. They are free. Each plugin below is available in ChatGPT, in Claude or in both.
Schedules a task list with the critical path, draws a Gantt chart and exports CSV and calendar files.
Turns an event you describe into a standard .ics file and add-to-calendar links for Google, Outlook and Apple.
Estimates 2026 US take-home pay with federal, state and FICA lines, and compares two job offers.
Makes printable word searches, crosswords and Sudoku puzzles, each with an answer key.
Checks WCAG color contrast for a color pair or a whole palette and finds nearby colors that pass your target ratio.
Runs a pomodoro, countdown or interval timer and exports your planned focus blocks to a calendar file.
Turns a list of names and addresses into a PDF for standard address and shipping label sheets.
Turns the transactions in a bank statement into rows you can download as CSV or Excel.
Draws names for a Secret Santa or gift exchange with exclusions, and gives each person a private reveal link.
Makes a printable PDF calendar for a month, a year or a school year, with public holidays and your own dates.
Spins a wheel of names with a fair random pick, splits groups into teams and picks random numbers.
