# Cheap Decision Models Can Collapse the Cost of Organizational Coordination by Salim Ismail > Organizations make thousands of small decisions—route this ticket, approve this exception, choose this supplier, escalate this transaction. Using a large reasoning model for each one is like convening the Supreme Court to choose a supermarket line. Cheap decision models can collapse the cost of micro-coordination while reserving deep reasoning for strategy. > **— Adapted from Salim Ismail**, *MOONSHOTS Live, October 2026* ## Sources and Context - **Recording or publication:** [MOONSHOTS Live at 1:58:03](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Blyb1D927pM&t=7083s) — The poster text is an explicit non-verbatim adaptation assembled from the source excerpts below. It preserves the speaker's argument while removing spoken-language filler, restoring the subject, and completing the mechanism or consequence needed for independent use. - **Exact transcript excerpt at [1:58:03](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Blyb1D927pM&t=7083s):** “So I th- I think this-- I think all of that is absolutely correct. The- there's a real, really important part of this for organizations, because when you're making decisions inside an organization, a large, vast number of those are system one type or, uh, thing. And I made a list of these just to make it clear for people. So, uh, route this ticket, um, approve this exception, uh, choose this supplier, escalate this transaction, um, move this thing left or right, send this message now or later. So when you're, when you have all these decisions to make, which are thousands of them, uh, you know, we've been working with these companies to do detailed task breakdowns, a vast majority of them are these little micro decisions. And trying to use an LLM for this is like trying to bring the Supreme Court together to decide what, uh, like, which checkout, which checkout line of the supermarket you should go to. And therefore, you've got this wonderful architecture now where you can route system one things to this very low cost, nearly free thing. And then for pondering deep important questions, strategy questions, where a hu- huge amount of human judgment type models are required, you can route it to those. So it's, it's a big deal for the organizational singularity world. Uh, we've been waiting for something like this, and Alex is correct. This has been possible for a long time, but now it's been made built into the systems. It's, it's made a very, uh, callable layer. And this is huge because the, the cost of micro coordination collapses, and that's really big.” - **Reconciled source dossier:** [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] — preserves broadcast order, speaker reconciliation, editorial conventions, and the surrounding argument from which this Reminder was promoted. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Article:** [[articles/Vertically Integrating an AI Superpower from AI Factory to Citizen|Vertically Integrating an AI Superpower]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Gigawatt Is the New Measure of War|The Gigawatt Is the New Measure of War]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Salim Ismail|Salim Ismail]] - [[wiki/Decision Model|Decision Model]] - [[wiki/Organizational Micro-Coordination|Organizational Micro-Coordination]] ## Share on Social Media ``` Organizations make thousands of small decisions—route this ticket, approve this exception, choose this supplier, escalate this transaction. Using a large reasoning model for each one is like convening the Supreme Court to choose a supermarket line. Cheap decision models can collapse the cost of micro-coordination while reserving deep reasoning for strategy. — Adapted from Salim Ismail, MOONSHOTS Live, October 2026 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-salim-ismail-cheap-decision-models-can-collapse-the-cost-of-organizational-coordination ```