The facts: On 7 October, Anthropic launched Claude Haiku 5.5, its smallest model. Its price: $0.10 per million input tokens (the token is the unit of text AI bills for, roughly a syllable). On OSWorld 2.1, the benchmark that measures an AI's ability to use a computer like a human, it scores 72.4% (YourStory and Mezha, 08/10/2026).

The Codito analysis: Until now, high-quality AI resembled the big steam engine: powerful, expensive, installed at one point in the company, and everyone came to consult it. Haiku 5.5 changes the scale, because a model costing a few cents now succeeds at a large share of the tasks that required a premium model 1 year ago, so it can run at every workstation, on every email, every invoice and every meeting report. And the race is only just beginning: Anthropic, OpenAI and Google are competing to become companies' default engine, with Google launching the same week an agent that acts on its own in Gmail, Docs and Calendar. The price of intelligence will keep falling, and the value will go to those who know where to put it.

What it means for you: Taking out an AI subscription without touching your organisation is like installing the electric motor in place of the steam engine. First step this week: list the 5 repetitive tasks that eat up the most of your team's time. That is the first line of the blueprint for your future factory.

The Codito method: we start from the work, never from the tool. We map the company's tasks, hand everything repetitive and quick to the small model, and keep the large model for decisions that commit money or responsibility. Each workstation thus gets its own motor, at the right power.

The proof: I recreated a 20-employee renovation company, l'Atelier Kerbrat, and gave 5 of its real tasks to Haiku 5.5 against Opus 5.5, with the cost measured on every call. The small model succeeded at 4 of them: it sorted 30 booby-trapped emails while foiling a CEO fraud, read a skewed scanned invoice, wrote the minutes of a 36-minute site meeting and recalculated a schedule. It stumbled on checking a quote, keeping 10% VAT on loft insulation eligible for the 5.5% rate, which is precisely the kind of decision you keep for the large model.

Over 1 year and across these 5 tasks, the bill comes down to $17 against $481 if everything went through the most powerful model. The same work done, for a fraction of the price: that is what a well-designed company earns.

It is the first blueprint of your redesigned factory, and it is what Codito Ergo Sum, a partner agency certified by Anthropic, does.

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This week's video walks through the test step by step: what Anthropic announces for Haiku 5.5, the 2 ways to pay for an AI (a pay-as-you-go key or a quota subscription), and the lesson I paid dearly for the day I exceeded my quota 2 days before it reset: $100 per hour of work. Watch the video.

The test artifact is freely available, with no email or form required: the 5 cases, the results and the costs, so you can redo it all for your company. Open the test artifact.

My advice for this week: take the most repetitive task on your list and have the small model do it on 10 real cases, alongside your current method. 10 cases are enough to know whether it can take it over from Monday.