Research Economics · Executive Simulator
Enterprise Research Economics Simulator
The cost, tokens, and quality of AI knowledge work at enterprise scale.
30%lower cost per research run — at the same research quality as all-frontier routing, with tiered model orchestration.
3 experiments·6 orchestrators·4 models · Opus 4.8 / GPT-5.5 / Sonnet 4.6 / Gemini Flash 3.5
01The Research Run
Pick a question and an orchestrator
A market-research agent built for a Japanese enterprise: six stages, live web search, a finished report. Three real questions, six ways to run each. Everything below is that exact run.
1 · Research question
2 · Orchestrator
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The trade-off: on Japan Healthcare IT, Lean Frontier (Claude) costs $1.90 per run against $3.15 on all-Opus — 40% less — at a judged quality of 76 against 75, and finishes in 7m 27s against 8m 7s.
This run · quality and cost
Cost / Run
$1.90
Saving vs C1
$1.26 (40%)
Total Tokens
214K
At enterprise scale
The same run, every working day across the workforce — extrapolated from this run, saving vs the C1 all-Opus baseline.
Employees30,000
Tasks Per Employee / Day1
Net saving a year with this orchestrator, vs all-frontier (C1)
$0
(40%)
$3.15 → $1.90 per run, across 10,950,000 runs a year, at the same judged quality.
Annual Runs
0
Annual Cost
$0
40% lower than C1
Annual Saving vs C1
$0
40% of the C1 bill
02How the run was built
The stages, the models, and the report it produced
Every run moves through the same six stages. Which model runs each stage is the orchestrator you picked above. Click any stage to read the brief it is given.
Six stages, start to finish
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Frontier
Opus 4.8
List price · per 1M tokens (in / out)
$5 / $25
Relative costQuality /100
98
Frontier
GPT-5.5
List price · per 1M tokens (in / out)
$5 / $30
Relative costQuality /100
92
Mid
Sonnet 4.6
List price · per 1M tokens (in / out)
$3 / $15
Relative costQuality /100
80
Efficient
Gemini Flash 3.5
List price · per 1M tokens (in / out)
$1.50 / $9
Relative costQuality /100
62
Run complete
IT Market Spend — Healthcare Tech, Japan
C3 · Lean Frontier (Claude)
3 · Models per stage
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4 · The result
Lean Frontier (Claude)'s deck for Japan Healthcare IT.
Market Outlook
¥301.8B JPY
NEC's Core Addressable Japan Healthcare IT Market Size in FY2024
Core IT Growth (FY25-27)
<1.0% CAGR
Cloud EMR Growth (FY24-27)
8.71% CAGR
Broad DX Growth (FY24-35)
5.97% CAGR
Care DX Growth (FY24-30)
16.98% CAGR
Market size · Billion JPY
Key findings
01The core institutional healthcare IT market is valued at ¥301.839 billion JPY (approx. $1.973 billion USD at spot ¥153/USD) in FY2024 but is structurally flat at under 1.0% CAGR through FY2027 due to 93.7% EMR penetration in large hospitals (Yano Research, Dec 2025; MHLW, Oct 2023 [dated baseline]).
02The clinic segment presents a critical greenfield with approximately 47,202 un-digitized clinics (55.0% EMR penetration in 2023) forced to adopt systems under a December 31, 2030, national legal mandate (MHLW, Oct 2023 [dated baseline] / Dec 2025).
03Cloud-type EMRs represent the fastest-growing core segment at an 8.71% CAGR from base year FY2024 to horizon year FY2027, rising to a ¥10.700 billion JPY (approx. $69.9 million USD) market value (Yano Research, Dec 2025).
04The adjacent long-term care DX market is projected to reach ¥140.000 billion JPY (approx. $915.0 million USD) by FY2030, representing a rapid 16.98% CAGR from its FY2024 baseline of ¥54.576 billion JPY (approx. $356.7 million USD) (Yano Research, Jan 2026; PwC Japan, mid-2025).
05A massive ¥1.3511 trillion JPY (approx. $8.831 billion USD) broad DX market forecast for FY2035 is highly concentrated, with AI drug discovery support driving 31.0% (+¥196.500 billion JPY) of all absolute growth from FY2024 (Fuji Keizai, Oct 2025).
SourcesYano Research Institute, Medical Information System Market Survey, December 19, 2025Fuji Keizai, Current Status and Future Outlook of Medical, Healthcare, and Pharmaceutical DX-Related Markets, October 3, 2025Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW), Medical Facility Survey, October 2023 [Dated]Yano Research Institute, Long-Term Care DX Market Survey 2025, January 13, 2026PwC Japan, LTC Technology Market Trend Survey Report, mid-2025