Building at the Frontier: Our 10 Billion Token Milestone with OpenAI
A Milestone in Production AI
OpenAI sent us an award—a precision-milled piece of anodized aluminum—recognizing a significant milestone: processing over 10 billion tokens through their API.
The accompanying message put this achievement in context:
"Congratulations on processing over 10 billion tokens with the OpenAI API... There are millions of developers building on our platform, but only a small percentage have crossed this milestone. You're now part of a small group building at the frontier of AI."
This milestone represents more than a number—it represents thousands of hours building production AI systems that serve real customers and solve genuine business challenges in the domain industry.
What 10 Billion Tokens Represents
The numbers tell a story of real-world AI implementation at scale:
- 10,000,000,000 tokens processed through production systems
- 100 million domain names risk-scored for registries and registrars
- Thousands of hours building, testing, and optimizing production AI platforms
Each token represents a real business challenge addressed, a customer need met, or a critical lesson learned about deploying AI systems at scale.
Building Production AI: Lessons from the Frontier
Reaching 10 billion tokens taught us that building production AI systems means embracing constant iteration, rapid adaptation, and evidence-based pivots.
The path involved:
- Early experiments that showed promise but didn't scale
- Failed approaches that clarified what not to do
- Breakthrough moments when complex problems suddenly resolved
- Infrastructure challenges that required creative solutions
- Cost optimization that became critical as we scaled
Building production AI systems means solving problems no one has documented solutions for. It means debugging issues that test your assumptions about what's possible. It also means discovering capabilities that transform how your customers work.
Through thousands of hours of development and optimization, we've learned what it takes to deploy AI systems that deliver consistent value at scale.
The Team Behind the Technology
This milestone reflects the collective effort of our team at iQ Global AS. The award recognizes:
- Persistence through challenges that stopped many similar projects
- Creativity in solving problems without established best practices
- Collaboration that transformed individual expertise into production systems
- Vision to see possibilities others dismissed as impractical
Our thanks to everyone who contributed to this achievement.
To OpenAI: your platform has enabled companies like ours to build AI systems that deliver real business value. Your commitment to making powerful AI accessible has accelerated innovation across countless industries.
Our Mission: Helping the Domain Industry Harness AI
Reaching this milestone isn't the destination—it's a foundation for what comes next.
These 10 billion tokens represent extensive learning about deploying AI systems that solve real business challenges. We've built production platforms that serve actual customers and deliver measurable results.
Our mission is clear: helping the domain industry harness AI technology effectively.
The domain industry is experiencing significant transformation. AI is fundamentally changing how organizations:
- Assess and score domain name risk and value with greater accuracy
- Analyze trends across massive datasets in real-time
- Predict market movements using pattern recognition at scale
- Automate processes that previously required extensive manual analysis
- Make decisions backed by data-driven AI insights
This technology provides opportunities for the industry to not just adapt to change, but to drive innovation and growth.
Building at the Frontier Means Building Together
"Building at the frontier" means working where established patterns don't yet exist and where you solve challenges without documented solutions. It's where innovation happens and where the future takes shape.
The frontier is more effective with partners.
If you're exploring how AI might transform your business, facing challenges without clear solutions, or investigating what's possible with this technology—let's talk.
You might be:
- Evaluating if AI can address specific business challenges
- Seeking partners with production AI deployment experience
- Building your own AI systems and looking to share insights
- Exploring how AI might reshape your industry
The lessons we've learned through 10 billion tokens of AI development have value beyond our own systems—they're part of a broader conversation about effectively deploying AI technology in production environments.
