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name: juicebox-cost-tuning description: 'Optimize Juicebox costs.

Trigger: "juicebox cost", "juicebox billing", "juicebox budget".

' allowed-tools: Read, Write, Edit, Grep version: 1.16.0 license: MIT author: Jeremy Longshore jeremy@intentsolutions.io tags:

• saas
• recruiting
• juicebox compatibility: Designed for Claude Code

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Juicebox Cost Tuning

Cost Factors

Feature	Cost Driver
Search	Per query
Enrichment	Per profile
Contact data	Per lookup
Outreach	Per message

Reduction Strategies

1. Cache search results (avoid duplicate queries)
2. Use filters (fewer wasted enrichments)
3. Only enrich top-scored candidates
4. Only get contacts for final candidates

Quota Monitoring

const quota = await client.account.getQuota();
console.log(`Searches: ${quota.searches.used}/${quota.searches.limit}`);
if (quota.searches.used > quota.searches.limit * 0.8) console.warn('80% quota used');

Overview

Use cost controls as a safety boundary: validate them first in a sandbox, reduce unnecessary processing, and never treat cost optimization as permission to expand data or outreach scope.

Prerequisites

• An approved budget, synthetic sandbox fixture, source/destination allowlists, suppression controls, current quota baseline, and a rollback owner.

Instructions

1. Measure cache and batching changes with synthetic inputs and aggregate counters only; reject unapproved sources, destinations, or contact exports.
2. Compare each canary to the approved quota baseline, verify suppression and contacts_exported=0, and stop on material scope or policy drift.
3. Promote cost settings only after owner approval; restore the prior configuration and cancel queued work on failure.
4. Retain a redacted summary and delete test artifacts at the end of the approved window.

Output

Record a cost-control receipt with environment, baseline and aggregate usage, cache/batch setting, suppression/no-export results, owner approval, rollback action, and retention/deletion proof. Exclude query text, contacts, and credentials.

Error Handling

Condition	Response
Budget or quota anomaly	Pause the canary, cancel queued work, and restore the approved configuration.
Source, destination, or suppression drift	Reject the run and investigate with redacted aggregate telemetry only.

Examples

env=staging; fixture=synthetic; cache=enabled; usage_delta=-18%; suppression=pass; contacts_exported=0; rollback=available supports an approval decision.

Resources

• Pricing

Next Steps

See juicebox-reference-architecture.