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Replacing an LLM With a Lookup

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On a B2B outbound product, one pipeline step used an LLM with web search to find a company's website and phone number from its name. Swapping it for a deterministic Places API lookup took website completeness from 34% to 81%, phone to 91%, and that step's LLM cost to zero. This is the reasoning beh…

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  1. 2026-09-30 08:08 · DEV Community — AI
    Replacing an LLM With a Lookup

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