Press Release: cortave is Live!
cortave Launches AI Cost Governance Platform That Reduces Token Spend by Up to 80% - With a 14 - Day Free Trial and No Code Changes Required
The production-ready platform sits between enterprise AI applications and LLM providers, enforcing efficiency guardrails in real time. Strategic Innovator relationship with WE AS WEB confirms market demand.
NEW BRUNSWICK, CANADA, 14 April 2026. cortave, the AI cost governance platform built to end token waste in enterprise AI deployments, today announced its general availability. Effective immediately, organisations can deploy cortave between their existing AI applications and their large language model (LLM) providers, reducing inference spend by 50 – 80% without code changes, replatforming, or lengthy onboarding. The platform is available now with a 14-day free trial, no credit card required, at cortave.ai.
The launch follows a period of closed testing across multiple industries, during which early customers recorded a 55 – 60% average reduction in monthly AI inference costs alongside measurable improvements in output quality and response accuracy. cortave simultaneously announces its first Innovator partnership with WE AS WEB, a leading AI solutions provider that has integrated cortave into its client delivery model and will offer the platform to its enterprise customer base.
THE PROBLEM: AI SPEND WITHOUT GOVERNANCE
Enterprise adoption of AI is accelerating but financial governance is not keeping pace. Without a dedicated infrastructure layer, organisations face 20 - 40% margin compression and 30 - 60% budget volatility as inference spend scales across teams, workflows and models. Token spend is consumption-based, variable, and highly difficult to attribute, a combination that leaves Finance functions blind to where AI investment is going and what it is producing.
Less than 30% of boards currently have a formal AI governance framework in place, despite $4.1 trillion in projected AI investment by 2030. The gap between deployment speed and governance capability is where margin disappears.
cortave was built to close that gap.
THE SOLUTION: EFFICIENT AI INFRASTRUCTURE
cortave operates as a production-ready optimisation layer that routes all AI application traffic through a semantic gateway before it reaches the LLM provider. Every request is optimised. Every token is tracked. Unnecessary usage such as redundant queries, ungrounded prompts, repetitive calls are removed before cost is incurred, not after.
The platform requires no code changes, no model rewrites, and no refactoring of existing applications. Most teams are live in minutes. Verified savings are tracked automatically from week one.
Semantic retrieval and context grounding - improves output relevance and eliminates redundant model calls
Prompt optimisation and rule-based pre-filtering -structures requests efficiently before they reach the LLM
Deduplication caching - eliminates repeated queries across users and workflows
Multi-LLM routing - directs requests to the most cost-appropriate model without sacrificing output quality
Full observability and audit trail - provides attribution at the workflow level, not just the invoice
"Efficient AI is not about doing less, it's about wasting nothing says Mike Danforth Founder & CEO of cortave. Enterprise organisations are scaling AI at speed, but the governance infrastructure has not kept up. Token spend is growing faster than visibility and that gap compounds with every workflow that goes live without attribution. cortave closes that gap. We are live, we are production-ready, and we can be inside an AI infrastructure stack in minutes.
PRICING
cortave operates on a performance-based pricing model: customers pay 20% of verified monthly savings only. There is no upfront fee, no subscription charge, and no cost until the platform has demonstrably reduced spend. A 14-day free trial with no credit card required is available to all new customers at cortave.ai.
STRATEGIC RELATIONSHIP: WE AS WEB
cortave simultaneously announces its inaugural Innovator partnership with WE AS WEB, a specialist AI solutions provider delivering AI-powered systems to enterprise clients. WE AS WEB has completed a full integration of cortave within its delivery infrastructure and will offer the platform as a standard component of its AI solutions, enabling clients to benefit from reduced inference costs and improved output performance from deployment.
The relationship is the first under the cortave Innovators Programme which is a commercial model designed for organisations building and deploying AI solutions for clients. Unlike traditional SaaS partner programmes, the Innovators Programme requires no application, no approval process, and no portal. Innovators own the customer relationship and choose between a 25% or 50% monthly revenue share, paid automatically based on verified customer savings.
"We integrated cortave because the economics of AI delivery were becoming a constraint on what we could offer clients. The cost reductions are significant, but what impressed us equally was the quality improvement. When inference is governed properly, the AI performs better. We are now building cortave into every solution we deliver."
— Robert Pop, Head of AI, WE AS WEB
EARLY RESULTS
During the closed testing period, cortave delivered consistent results across a range of enterprise AI applications:
Monthly AI inference costs reduced by 55 - 60% on average across tested deployments
Output accuracy and relevance improved by 50 - 70% through context grounding and prompt optimisation
Customer satisfaction scores increased materially as AI responses became more reliable and precise
New customer capacity expanded by up to 30% without corresponding growth in infrastructure spend
Time to deployment: minutes, not months
14-DAY FREE TRIAL
cortave is available to all organisations from today. The 14-day free trial requires no credit card and no integration project. Organisations connect their existing AI application traffic, begin saving immediately, and access full observability and attribution reporting from day one.