/ Optimization Engagement

Cut your infrastructure bill
40–90%. Guaranteed.

Inefficient code quietly drains gross margin, compresses runway, and makes scale more expensive than it needs to be. A Codeflash Optimization Engagement finds that waste across your production system and ships the fixes. Every change created by our agent is crafted & reviewed by our senior performance engineers, proven correct, and delivered as a PR. ROI guaranteed before you commit.

90%
infra cost reduction
typical result
Unstructured · 7 weeks
9.2×
pod density
increase
$10K → $1.1K/mo
24
PRs merged
across 5 repos
354 tests · 0 regressions
0
regressions across
all engagements
Every change reviewed

Infrastructure spend is a product decision you haven't made yet.

Every dollar you over-spend on cloud is a dollar not in product, headcount, or runway.

Your cloud bill is a line item the board asks about.

Gross margin is under pressure. You know the spend is higher than it should be, but quantifying the opportunity and capturing it without disrupting the team hasn't happened yet.

AI-generated code is shipping faster than anyone can review it for efficiency.

We've found 118 functions up to 446× slower than necessary in two AI-written PRs. The velocity is real. So is the waste it introduces.

You're scaling, but infra cost is scaling faster.

Unit economics are slipping as you grow. A 90% infra cut doesn't just lower the bill. It changes what scale looks like and how long your runway lasts.

Four steps. Merge-ready PRs at the end.

The engagement is scoped, time-bounded, and ends with working code on your repo. Not a PDF report.

01 · Scope

Define the objective

We agree on a target: cost, p99 latency, GPU utilization, cold start, or throughput. We reproduce your baseline on a representative workload so everything is measured before we touch a line of code.

Week 1
02 · Run

Agent explores autonomously

codeflash-agent profiles your codebase, generates optimization candidates, and benchmarks each one in our sandboxed environment. It finds global patterns across files and across layers that a human working function-by-function would miss.

Week 1–7
03 · Review

Engineers audit every candidate

A senior Codeflash performance engineer reviews every optimization. Fragile ones are rejected. Anything that doesn't meet our quality bar never reaches your repo. This is not AI output with a rubber stamp on it.

Continuous
04 · Ship

Merge-ready PRs land on your repo

Each PR arrives with before/after benchmark numbers and reviewer rationale. Your team reviews and merges. We never push directly to main. Your engineers stay in control.

Throughout

An autonomous performance engineer that never sleeps.

A human perf engineer works file by file. codeflash-agent has your entire codebase in view at once. It finds six-step flows that can become three-step flows. It sees the O(N²) scan nested two abstractions deep. It catches the 24 MB memory creep hiding inside baseline noise.

It runs 24/7, in parallel, in our sandbox. Your engineers don't drive it. They review the output. Your team's job goes from doing the optimization work to approving it.

"Having Codeflash run the agent makes more sense than asking our engineers, who are focused on product and features, to develop and run that process themselves."

Crag Wolfe · Chief Architect, Unstructured
codeflash-agent · engagement #031 · unstructured-io/core
// week 1 · profiling pass complete
top bottleneck: ocr/worker.py
  os.cpu_count() returning 48 on 1-CPU pod
  spawning 4 ONNX workers · 4× memory
hypothesis: container-aware worker init
benchmark: 9.2× pod density · confirmed
opening PR #1201 → engineer review

// week 2 · memory pass
found: PIL preprocessing: +24 MB/req
reorder + drop → 17 MB/req
opening PR #1218 → engineer review

// week 3 · hotspot pass
found: _patch_current_chars
  O(N²) scan per operator
single-pass rewrite: 14.08× faster
354 tests · ok
opening PR #1243 → engineer review

AI agents write new code faster. They don't fix what's already expensive.

Claude, Cursor, and Codex operate at the point of authorship. The waste already in production, and the waste being added at speed by those same tools, requires a different approach.

Claude · Cursor · Codex Codeflash Engagement
Cloud bill impact None. No visibility into production cost 40–90% infra cost reduction, measured
Where it looks The file currently open Your entire production system, layer by layer
Proof the change works No before/after benchmark Every PR has measured speedup and regression tests
Your team's time cost Engineers must prompt, review, and validate You review PRs. We do everything else
ROI before you pay Unknown Savings opportunity quantified in the diagnostic

What lands on your side of the engagement.

Here is exactly what you get at the end of an engagement.

01 · Baseline

A measured starting point

We reproduce your baseline on your actual workload before touching a line. No guesswork. The improvement is measured from a real number, not a projection.

02 · PRs

Merge-ready pull requests

Each PR includes before/after benchmark numbers, correctness verification across your test suite, and a plain-English rationale from the reviewing engineer. Your team reviews and merges at their pace.

03 · Review

Senior engineer on every change

A Codeflash performance engineer reviews every candidate before it reaches your repo. Fragile, risky, or marginal optimizations are rejected. You only see the ones we'd stake our reputation on.

04 · Report

End-of-engagement summary

Bottlenecks found, methodology, PRs shipped, before/after metrics, and a scope recommendation for the next phase if applicable. The report is yours to keep.

05 · Security

Zero production access

The agent runs in our sandboxed environment. We never touch your production systems. Read-only GitHub access, scoped to the agreed repos, time-limited. SOC 2 Type 2 audited.

06 · Handoff

Continuous Optimization, ready to go

At the end of the engagement, the same agent can watch every new PR going forward, catching regressions before they compound. The bill stays down, not just this quarter.

We don't start until the numbers pencil out.

ROI guarantee

If the savings don't clearly exceed what you'd pay, we tell you before you commit anything.

Every engagement starts with a paid diagnostic. In three weeks, we profile your system, identify your top bottlenecks, and quantify the annual dollar opportunity. That diagnostic is the decision point, not a down payment on a foregone conclusion.

If we don't identify at least 5× the diagnostic fee in annualized savings, the diagnostic is on us. We've never triggered that clause. But it's there because we mean it.

Commercial structure (scoped fixed fee or shared-upside) is agreed before work begins.

What Crag Wolfe said after seven weeks.

Chief Architect at Unstructured, after seven weeks.

"We knew we could do better, but we didn't have the bandwidth."
On why they started
"It wasn't just tweaks to existing functions. Codeflash understood the abstractions. If a process had six steps, it would recognize that two or three were unnecessary and replace the flow with a better one."
On the depth of the work
"A PR comes in, we measure RSS before and after on a running system, and the improvement is 2× or 3×. Real demonstrable progress, not theoretical."
On the ongoing loop
Read the full Unstructured case study →

The bill stays down.

Most optimization wins decay inside a year because new code arrives faster than anyone can optimize it. We close that loop.

During engagement

We cut the bill.

codeflash-agent explores your existing codebase. Our engineers review and ship optimizations. You see the bill bend in weeks.

Start an engagement →
After engagement

We keep it there.

The same agent stays on, watching every new PR. Regressions are caught where they're introduced, before they compound. Works with GitHub, Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex.

See Continuous Optimization →

Common questions.

How long does an engagement take?

The diagnostic takes 2–3 weeks. A full engagement typically runs 4–12 weeks depending on codebase size and scope. We agree on a timeline before we start.

What do you actually need from us?

One or more repos, a benchmark or a profile (if you don't have a benchmark, we can write one), a defined objective, and time to review PRs. We don't need production access and we don't need to be onboarded to your infrastructure. Your team reviews PRs; we drive everything else.

How is this different from running AI coding tools ourselves?

AI coding tools optimize within a function, at the point of authorship. codeflash-agent profiles your running system, identifies the real bottlenecks, and rewrites across layers. Then every change is benchmarked and correctness-verified before a Codeflash engineer reviews it. The output is a PR with measured proof, not a suggestion.

Will this disrupt our engineering team?

Minimally. We don't need pairing sessions or access walkthroughs. Your team's job is to review PRs, the same way they review any other change. The agent explores autonomously in our sandbox.

What if you don't find anything significant?

The diagnostic is the checkpoint. If we can't identify savings that clearly exceed the diagnostic fee × 5, we tell you and the diagnostic is refunded. We've never triggered that clause, but it's there.

Will you use our code to train models?

Never. Not ours, not any third party's. That's in our Trust Center and our SOC 2 Type 2 audit.

Can you run on-prem or in our VPC?

Yes. Deployment model (SaaS, your cloud, or on-prem) is agreed during scoping. Same agent, same process.

What languages and stacks?

Python, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, and more. ML stacks including PyTorch, JAX, vLLM, HF Diffusers, YOLO, and spaCy. If you're not sure, tell us your stack and we'll give you an honest answer.

Start with a 20-minute diagnostic call.

We'll profile your system, identify the top bottlenecks, and tell you what the savings opportunity looks like before you commit to anything.