“Decent projects that some grantmakers funded and others didn't had cost effectivenesses of $5,000 to $10,000 And projects that we took seriously but mostly didn't end up funding unless there were hard to quantify reasons in favor were usually in the range of 1.10 to $20,000 Beyond $20,000 was the line where the human grantmakers I observed generally didn't treat...”

“The best project I tested had a cost effectiveness of 1.1 to $2,000 Excellent projects that most grantmakers were happy to fund had cost effectivenesses of 1.5 to $5,000”

“Arun Balakrishnan of Sedans reported efficiency gains ranging from 35% to 50% in some deployments.”

“We stopped doing a lot of mid-tier outreach and link building for a long time.”

“ChatGPT consistently gave results two to three times better, more cost-effective, than Claude for everything”