AI Now Tells you if a Meeting could be an Email

DigitalOcean's Inference Router is a policy-driven routing layer that automatically dispatches prompts to the most appropriate LLM based on task complexity. A practical demo app determines whether a workplace task warrants a meeting or can be handled via email: simple requests route to a fast, cheap Llama 3.3 70B model, while complex multi-stakeholder coordination routes to Claude Opus 4.7. The router is configured through the DigitalOcean control panel or a REST API, integrates as a drop-in replacement for direct model calls using the standard Chat Completions endpoint, and requires no if/else branching in application code. The post covers router creation, task definition, fallback models, playground validation, and production monitoring via an Analyze tab.