PRODUCTION SCENARIO
A compliance team must scan 14,000 vendor contracts for one clause pattern and write a summary. The reading far exceeds one context window, each contract can be checked independently, and a frontier model alone costs too much and takes many hours.
Which multi-model pattern fits this workload?
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Answer: A frontier orchestrator fanning the contracts out to cheaper workers and merging
The decision turns on whether the work splits into independent pieces or forms one chain of dependent steps. Independent pieces beyond a single context window call for the orchestrator, whose workers absorb the token-heavy reading in parallel at worker rates. A prompt chain serializes work that has no dependencies and lets the running summary decay over 14,000 hops. The advisor pattern suits serial work that is hard in spots. max_tokens raises the output budget, not the context window.