Quintessential San Francisco AI startup Polsia employs nobody and operates swarms of AI agents to help run other businesses. Its founder hired Sapiom, another San Francisco startup that specializes in streamlining token costs to run a series of evaluations, after which Sapiom reduced Polsia’s token-consumption tenfold, to about $100,000 per month, said Ilan Zerbib, Sapiom’s founder and CEO. Sapiom is betting it can lower those token costs, and is raising a $35 million series A led by venture-fund Dragonfly’s Haseeb Qureshi. Sapiom also doesn’t charge a premium over models it provides to customers. Instead, because it’s running the models on its own infrastructure, it can charge customers directly for the compute.