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Modal's forward-deployed engineers proactively help customers reduce costs when they over-provision CPU or memory.

Unresolved speaker · Why AI Compute Comes in Rectangles — Erik Bernhardsson, Modal CEO · 22 Oct 2026

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“Or, uh, another thing we, we've used FDEs a lot for is, like, you know, just kind of proactively, you know, if, if we see certain customers, you know, over-provisioning with modal, like customers requesting too much CPU or too much memory, for instance, like, that's kind of expensive.”
“And, like, we, we try to catch those things, and we try to sit down with those customers like, "Yo, like, you're spending a lot of money on modal right now. We can actually help you save money."”
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