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Jev

System One decision model

Developer guide

Jev — TypeSafe AI System One Model

Jev is the System One decision model introduced by TypeSafe AI. It is designed for AI agent pipelines where predictable, consistent decisions matter more than creative text generation. The core design philosophy is simple: Decisions not strings.

General-purpose large language models are optimized for writing, reasoning and natural conversation. They are powerful, but their outputs can be unpredictable when used inside automated agent workflows. Jev solves this gap by delivering structured, repeatable decision results.

Jev features at a glance

Visual cards summarizing the talking points that show up again and again in public Jev intros: decisions instead of chat text, smart if-style routing, Choice / Score / Noul, parallel questions, calibrated confidence, schema-safe outputs, and real-time friendly latency. Rewritten for this community site — not a transcript of any single video.

Decisions, not strings

Decisions, not strings

Jev does not write chat replies. It returns typed decisions your agent code can execute directly — the core slogan in every public intro.

Smart if-statements

Smart if-statements

Think of Jev as a fuzzy decision gate inside software: classify, route, score, and branch where hand-written rules are too brittle.

Choice · Score · Noul

Choice · Score · Noul

Three primitives cover most automation needs: pick an option, place on a rubric, or answer yes/no with a probability.

Many questions, one call

Many questions, one call

Send one state and several typed questions together. Parallel sampling keeps multi-check triage desks fast.

Calibrated confidence

Calibrated confidence

Use high confidence for auto-routing, mid confidence for human or LLM escalation, and keep uncertainty visible in logs.

Schema-safe outputs

Schema-safe outputs

Possible answers are defined up front, so successful responses stay inside your schema instead of inventing free-text labels.

Real-time friendly

Real-time friendly

Published latency stays in tens to hundreds of milliseconds — close to request-path and interactive demo budgets.

Dig into the primitives in the SDK guide or the glossary.

Why teams pick Jev: speed & cost

Charts based on published TypeSafe ranges. Full report with methodology and scenario templates lives on the benchmarks page.

Chart comparing Jev latency of 70 to 500 milliseconds against typical frontier LLM ranges of about 3 to 329 seconds
Latency — Jev’s published System One band stays in milliseconds while frontier chat models often sit in seconds.
Chart comparing Jev input price of 0.042 dollars per million tokens against higher LLM price bands
Input price — about $0.042 / MTok, with published free output tokens for decision results.
Chart showing about 194 times faster for Jev on workflow evaluations
Workflow speed headline — ~194× faster on published workflow-style evals.
Chart showing about 445 times cheaper for Jev on workflow evaluations
Workflow cost headline — ~445× cheaper on the same published eval framing.
Four-panel scenario matrix for routing, batch scoring, real-time loops, and high-cardinality choice
Test scenarios — templates for routing desks, batch scoring, real-time loops, and large Choice sets.

Open the full benchmarks report

System One vs System Two

The System One / System Two naming comes from behavioral psychology. In agent engineering terms, the split maps cleanly to two different jobs inside one pipeline. See the glossary for short definitions.

  • System One (Jev): Fast, deterministic, consistent classification and decision making. Low variation, ideal for automated agent workflows.
  • System Two (Generative LLM): Slow, flexible reasoning, text creation, open-ended conversation. Good for writing and complex reasoning.

Production stacks rarely pick only one. Most teams put Jev at the decision edge, then call a generative model only when the chosen path needs prose, tool planning, or deeper reasoning. Read the comparison page for a feature-by-feature breakdown.

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FAQ

What problem does Jev solve?

Jev reduces unpredictable free-text outputs from general LLMs inside agent pipelines, delivering consistent structured decisions.

Read the full FAQ · Getting started guide

Official sources & further reading

Product claims and brand assets belong to TypeSafe AI. Start with the official announcement, or read an independent launch summary on Truescho.