A styling agent re-platformed — same accuracy, a fifth of the bill.
A customer-facing AI styling agent moved off a frontier-model stack onto a Bud domain-tuned small model, served CPU-native on Intel Xeon hardware already in the estate. No new silicon. No accuracy trade.
- Domain-tuned SLM absorbs the everyday load; frontier held in reserve
- CPU-native serving on infrastructure the customer already owned
- Accuracy held at parity — 85.46% before, 85.44% after



