--- title: How Elumynt cut LLM costs by over 80% with Pydantic Monty company: Elumynt date: '2026-11-05' summary: >- Elumynt, a digital marketing agency for SaaS and e-commerce brands, runs over 100 daily agentic routines on a Pydantic AI harness. By having the agent write the deterministic steps as Python programs and run them in Pydantic Monty, the team cut LLM spend on routines by over 80%, made results consistent from day to day, and let non-developers author their own programs. industries: - Digital Marketing industryGroups: - Technology & SaaS - Commerce & Consumer productsUsed: - Pydantic AI - Pydantic Monty canonical: 'https://pydantic.dev/case-studies/elumynt' --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://pydantic.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. ## Querying This Documentation **warning**: agent query parameters (`goal` and `organization`) not included. 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Switching every deterministic step to a Python script, which executes in Monty, has reduced LLM costs by over 80%." — Jeff Snyder, President > > All case studies: [/case-studies.md](https://pydantic.dev/case-studies.md) · Site index: [/llms.txt](https://pydantic.dev/llms.txt) --- # How Elumynt cut LLM costs by over 80% with Pydantic Monty [Elumynt](https://www.elumynt.com/) is a digital marketing agency for SaaS and e-commerce brands. [Jeff Snyder](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffsnydermn/), President of Elumynt, built an agent harness and a set of specialty agents on [Pydantic AI](https://pydantic.dev/pydantic-ai) that help the team answer client requests faster, catch campaign errors early, and cut repetitive analysis. Most of Elumynt's LLM spend went to the QA and monitoring work, which runs as more than 100 daily agentic routines. ## The challenge: 100+ daily routines, every step paid for in tokens Elumynt's team built daily automations that run checks across client accounts, and an LLM handled every step. A team member wrote a long, multi-step prompt, handed it to an agent, and set it to run every day across every account they managed. That approach had two costs. The first was the LLM bill, since every step of every check was reasoned through by a model, every day, for every account. The second was consistency. The same check could come back different on Tuesday than it had on Monday, because a model was making each step's decisions fresh each time. ## The solution: an agent that writes the program, Monty that runs it When a user builds a routine today, the agent biases toward writing a Python program for every deterministic step. It clarifies the constraints and inputs with the user first, runs a test across multiple accounts with the program executing in [Pydantic Monty](https://pydantic.dev/monty), and confirms the output with the user. The program then becomes part of the routine, and in most cases the whole of it. The model is involved at authoring time. The daily run is mostly code. Monty is Pydantic's secure Python interpreter, written in Rust, and built for running code that agents write. It gives Elumynt a sandbox that is fast and lightweight enough to run on every routine without the operational weight of a container per run, while keeping the host safe from whatever the agent produced. Programs come with input variables, so a program written for one account is reusable by other team members and tailored to their accounts. Every program outputs a dataset, and those datasets render in an internal dashboard where team members can drill in where needed. ### A program-authoring agent for the whole team Once the existing routines were migrated, Elumynt rolled out a program-authoring agent so that users, not only Jeff, can create new programs for monitoring accounts, performing QA steps, and similar work. Those programs then run every day at nearly zero cost. > "After the initial migration, we rolled out a program-authoring agent so our users can create new programs for monitoring accounts, performing QA steps, etc. and those programs will run forever at nearly zero cost." > > Jeff Snyder, President at Elumynt ### Jev for the judgment calls inside a program Not every step in a routine is deterministic. Judging whether a Google search term is relevant to the ad it triggered is a classification problem, and Elumynt handles it with a [Jev](https://pydantic.dev/articles/jev-evals) decision step inside the Monty program. Jev, TypeSafe's classification model, takes a piece of text and a set of typed questions and returns an answer and a probability for each. The search-term program already surfaced low performers. Now it also scores each term's relevance by feeding in the ad copy, the landing page copy, and the original keyword, and that score lands in the same dataset the dashboard renders. > "Adding a Jev decision/classification step within Monty has also been pretty great. We're using it for judging Google Search term relevance. The expense is next to nothing." > > Jeff Snyder, President at Elumynt ## The results: cheaper, consistent, and self-serve Across its routines, Elumynt reports: - **An 80%+ reduction in LLM expense on routines.** The deterministic steps no longer cost tokens on every run. - **Consistent results across runs.** A program produces the same output from the same inputs. The day-to-day variance of prompt-driven routines is gone. - **Development time back.** Team members author and reuse their own programs, so development time can be invested elsewhere. - **A dashboard for every routine.** Each program writes a dataset to an internal dashboard, and team members drill into an account only when the data points there. > "Having a secure, fast, and lightweight Python sandbox has opened up a new world of possibilities for our team." > > Jeff Snyder, President at Elumynt ## Key takeaways - **Separate the deterministic steps from the judgment calls.** Most of a daily routine is the same work every day. Write it as code once and pay for a model only where a decision is needed. - **Spend the model at authoring time.** An agent that writes, tests, and confirms a program with the user puts the expensive reasoning into one conversation instead of into every daily run. - **A sandbox the whole team can use changes who gets to automate.** Once programs are safe to run and cheap to keep, non-developers can author their own, and the one developer stops being the bottleneck. --- _Want your agents to run the Python they write? [Read about Pydantic Monty](https://pydantic.dev/monty) or [get started in the docs](https://pydantic.dev/docs/monty/get-started/)._ ## FAQ ### What is Pydantic Monty? Pydantic Monty is the open-source execution layer for AI agents. It runs the Python an agent writes in an interpreter written in Rust, with controlled host access, per-session memory and time limits, and snapshots that pause and resume execution. Applications written in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or Rust can embed Monty, and Pydantic packages it as Full Monty for enterprise deployments. ### How do you reduce LLM costs on recurring agent workflows? Move the deterministic steps out of the prompt and into code. Elumynt's agent writes a Python program for each deterministic step, tests it with the user, and runs it in Pydantic Monty on every daily run. The model handles only the judgment calls, which cut Elumynt's LLM spend on 100+ daily routines by over 80%. ### How does Pydantic Monty keep agent-written code safe? Agent code reaches only the functions the host application exposes. The filesystem, network, and processes stay out of reach unless you expose them, and Monty bounds memory and time per session. ### Does Pydantic Monty work with Pydantic AI? Yes. Pydantic AI Harness CodeMode runs agent-written Python in Monty, and you choose which tools the code can call.