HITECH: a new way to manage your AI costs


Presented by Contemporary Analysis & Omaha Data Science Academy


A Weekly Upskill for Yourself, Your Data, Your Team

May 21, 2026

Issue 112

Celebrating Omaha Data Science and AI Week + asking for feedback

Last week was incredible.

  • 150+ attendees across 3 events
  • 60 attendees at CANalytics
  • 20 certifications awarded to ODSA Students
  • 2 awards given
  • 1 Mayoral Proclamation
  • 1,000+ smiles, laughs, data insights and lessons shared.

Don't just take our word for it, here's what attendees had to say!

Now, we're asking for your feedback, whether you attended or not.

Take this 1-3 minute survey to help create Omaha Data Science and AI Week 2027!

If you were there, we want to know how your experience was. If you weren't, we want to know what would bring you next year.


A new way to manage your AI Costs

Contemporary Analysis has spent multiple years building Enterprise AI Applications that have measurable ROI, but recently, it has come to our attention that a new service is needed...so we built it.

Just this year, we have received multiple calls regarding an organization's AI spend getting out of hand. Because we build enterprise AI applications and AI hardware, we understand how AI works, and thus, are specifically skilled in understanding how to reduce these costs without losing any performance.

Sometimes its small things like tweaking default team settings within your Claude or managed AI service, sometimes its using GEPA or MIPRO to improve model and workflow efficiencies, sometimes its moving the AI model in your application to our fixed cost, unlimited use AI nodes from our software: Workhorse

Whatever the need, we are here help.

Which is why we're so excited to announce the trifecta of Inference Management:

  1. We are now offering inference management services,
  2. A partnership with AI Workhorse
  3. A partnership with Scott Data Center

Inference Management Services

If your organization has built AI models and the bills are climbing, we can help you get them under control. Our inference management services are designed to analyze where you're spending, optimize how your models run, and bring predictability to a cost center that tends to surprise your CFO.

AI Workhorse

For organizations that want to go further, AI Workhorse offers unlimited AI at a fixed cost including dedicated bare-metal hardware, private cloud, no shared LLM providers. Learn more at aiwork.horse

Scott Data Center

We're excited to officially announce our partnership with Scott Data Center.

Scott Data is a Tier III Uptime Institute-certified, high-capacity data center built to handle what businesses need today and what AI will bring tomorrow. Oh, and Scott Data is home to Workhorse.

If you want to own your data and your nodes on local, secure infrastructure you control, you work with Scott Data.

Ready to fix your inference management. Schedule a call with our team today.


Around the Data Science World

Salesforce to spend $300M on Anthropic tokens

Speaking of AI costs, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff recently shared he is "going to probably use $300 million of Anthropic this year at Salesforce, [for coding.] Everything's going to be cheaper to make," He added that coding agents allow the company to "implement my software and sell it at the same time. I've never been able to do that before."

Benioff has also said "Salesforce hired zero new software engineers in fiscal year 2026" but that Salesforce is hiring 1,000 new graduates and interns to build and manage AI systems, not to fill traditional engineering roles.

Keep reading on Perplexity.

Claude Managed Agents

This week Claude announced "Claude Managed Agents can operate in a sandbox you control and connect to your private Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers."

The biggest blocker for enterprise AI agents is often data access. Agents need to get inside the perimeter to do real work, and most enterprise environments weren't built to let them in safely.

Anthropic two new updates, self-hosted sandboxes and MCP tunnels, start to fix that. Self-hosted sandboxes let the agent execute tools inside your own infrastructure (your network policies, your audit logs, your security perimeter) while Anthropic handles the orchestration layer.

MCP tunnels let agents reach private internal servers like databases, internal APIs, and knowledge bases without exposing them to the public internet, using a single outbound connection with no inbound firewall rules required.

Read the Anthropic Press Release for all the details.


Upskill this Summer at Omaha Data Science Academy!

At the ODSA, we don’t believe in generic training or one-size-fits-all degrees. We were built by practicing data scientists who needed more data scientists—so we train people the way we wish we’d been trained. That means real-world skills, taught by professionals who use them every day, in a format designed for working adults.

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Data is the superpower,

NATE WATSON

CEO, Contemporary Analysis

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