Vocabulary · Volume 1 and Volume 2
Accepted task
A task that met the business's acceptance criteria for its task class, not merely a completed request or a response that arrived on time. Cost per accepted task divides the workload's total cost, including failed attempts, attributable subscriptions, and committed capacity, by the number of accepted tasks.
Discussed in the book
Chapters where “Accepted task” is discussed at length, ranked by how directly each section treats it.
- Volume I, Chapter 7: AI Services and Token Capacity
Sections: Measure the efficiency of the models, not just the spend · What the capacity team owns
- Volume I, Chapter 8: Measuring AI Workloads
Sections: What the workload actually consumes
- Volume I, Chapter 9: Orchestration and Agentic Topologies
Sections: What the review inherits
See also
Cost per accepted task