Under the hood
How Marginal actually works
A little sharper, every day — here's the system making that happen.
Every quiz here is generated, checked, and corrected by a small pipeline of AI agents — not one model guessing. Here's what that pipeline actually does, in real numbers.
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18
Quizzes generated
94.7%
Approval rate
$0.0345
Avg. cost per quiz
119.8s
Avg. generation time
The pipeline
Two paths in, one set of checkpoints
Quiz generation pipeline
Guardrail
Filters input and source
$0.0011 · 1.5s
5.8K in · 58 out
5.8K in · 58 out
Creator
Generates questions
$0.0024 · 57.9s
5.9K in · 4.0K out
5.9K in · 4.0K out
Structural
Verifies format
no LLM call
Safety
Checks phrasing and tone
$0.0061 · 5.0s
3.4K in · 50 out
3.4K in · 50 out
Evaluator
Checks accuracy
$0.0118 · 10.4s
8.7K in · 1.4K out
8.7K in · 1.4K out
if needed
Corrector
Fixes flagged issues
$0.0348 · 93.7s
8.0K in · 5.7K out
8.0K in · 5.7K out
Daily digest pipeline
38
digests generated
$0.1213
avg. cost per digest
15.1
avg. ministries approved
191s
avg. generation time
Filter
$0.0023
3129 in · 1316 out
3129 in · 1316 out
Relevance Filter
$0.0028
3121 in · 1718 out
3121 in · 1718 out
Summarize
$0.0085
52769 in · 7956 out
52769 in · 7956 out
Evaluate
$0.1078
59134 in · 16930 out
59134 in · 16930 out
1845
articles ingested
→
992
included in digests
→
853
filtered out
Topics to Preview pipeline
6
briefs generated
$0.0023
avg. cost per brief
10.9s
avg. generation time
81
questions explained
81
explained
→
16
skipped (insufficient context)
Self-correction
The system catches its own mistakes
52.6% of quizzes were approved on the very first attempt. Of the rest, 42.1% were automatically fixed by our Corrector agent before approval. Only 5.3% were rejected by design (blocked or exhausted).
First try (10)
Self-corrected (8)
Failed (1)
Safety
What gets caught, and where
Guardrail (input checks)
| off_topic | 1 |
Safety-check (output tone)
No issues caught yet.
The funnel
Every quiz passes through five checkpoints
Submitted
19
Passed Guardrail
18
Passed Structural Check
18
Passed Safety Check
18
Approved
18
Growth
Cumulative quizzes generated
Total quizzes
18
Today
0
Real feedback
What people actually think
Did it follow instructions?
| Yes | 6 |
| Somewhat | 6 |
| No | 0 |
| N/A | 0 |
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