Week 21: Claude API Integration — Mar 15 – 21, 2025
TL;DR: Anthropic’s Claude API is integrated as the AI backbone. The client handles rate limiting, context management, and structured output parsing for all AI features.
Highlights This Week
- Integrated Claude API with custom client wrapper
- Built prompt engineering framework with system/user/assistant roles
- Implemented token usage tracking and cost estimation
Why Claude
We evaluated multiple LLM providers and chose Anthropic’s Claude for three reasons: superior instruction following, reliable structured output, and long context windows for analyzing complex field service data. The integration supports Claude 3.5 Sonnet for speed-critical tasks and Claude 3 Opus for deep analysis.
What’s Next
The Sales Agent — our first specialized AI agent.