Two Hours of Work That Takes a Week

Descript, an AI video and audio editing platform, reduced the time required to evaluate new AI models for its Underlord editing agent by replacing separate provider integrations with OpenRouter’s unified routing layer. Previously, adding models from providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google required engineering work and scheduling delays that could leave promising models untested for a week; now, employees can request evaluations through Slack, where Anthropic’s Claude Tag runs tests and opens pull requests for human review, often within one or two hours. This has enabled Descript to test models several times a week, select them based on performance against its own benchmarks, and move successful releases into production quickly, including Grok 4.5 without a direct xAI integration. For production workloads, Descript can retain control through dedicated deployments, such as a Baseten-hosted open-weight model using its own key, while OpenRouter provides fallback providers that preserve the selected model if an inference host fails.

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