What changed with Qloo?

Same shelf. Same tastes. Same constraints.

Stranger worlds

Two selection policies using the same shelf and tastes. The Qloo agent receives ranking tools; the catalog-only model receives a different context and policy. This is not a matched model comparison.

Choices

film

Same choice

With Qloo

Moon

Without Qloo

Moon

book

Changed

With Qloo

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Without Qloo

The Left Hand of Darkness

artist

Changed

With Qloo

Sigur Rós

Without Qloo

Portishead

Evidence

Moon

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Sigur Rós

Technical details

Source: live · Model: claude-haiku-5-5 · Run: 2026-10-20T03:39:37.669Z

Metadata: d1277bebb711844643158c6e8e992f6c804480c24e24a008c99ad5b185769ed3 · Configuration: 5945bad175c8ff1ec247a68bc85c13d4097bdfac9b75767a40e467fcba312bf7

model: claude-haiku-5-5
baseline: catalog-only model
steps: 4
totalInputTokens: 32000
totalOutputTokens: 4096
inputTokens: 8000
outputTokens: 1024
deadlineMs: 45000
reservationUsd: 0.02
maxRetries: 0

With Qloo

movie: 6BBB34F4-9345-4459-82AE-10991FA35CD2
book: 436EB434-2437-4A36-97E2-17A062D6C48D
artist: 6F2C4E85-CE79-4645-BAB3-3DF7EB4F4AC1

3979 ms · Reserved $0.02 · 2026-10-20T03:39:33.542Z

Model usage

Step 1: 1453 input tokens · 43 output tokens · input bound 3997
Step 2: 1921 input tokens · 375 output tokens · input bound 4980

Without Qloo

movie: 6BBB34F4-9345-4459-82AE-10991FA35CD2
book: D5271D32-4043-4104-ACC2-8FE0EF32D3FB
artist: 045707A1-C8EF-443F-A882-1B97AC69DC9A

4121 ms · Reserved $0.02 · 2026-10-20T03:39:37.664Z

Model usage

Step 1: 2435 input tokens · 168 output tokens · input bound 5109
Step 2: 2442 input tokens · 296 output tokens · input bound 5329

Signals: Arrival, Piranesi, Radiohead

Exclusions: C7EC4CA9-1CCC-4991-B738-55F075441B3F, 55908017-4CFD-4688-9A7E-7B1FF04B171D, 70CAE5BF-2F4C-445C-A3E5-4EDACFC3591C

Locks: None

Actual billing and recipient preference have not been measured.

Different choices do not prove better choices.

All cases

Opening comparison…

Stranger worlds

Two selection policies using the same shelf and tastes. The Qloo agent receives ranking tools; the catalog-only model receives a different context and policy. This is not a matched model comparison.

Choices

film

Same choice

With Qloo

Moon

Without Qloo

Moon

book

Changed

With Qloo

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Without Qloo

The Left Hand of Darkness

artist

Changed

With Qloo

Sigur Rós

Without Qloo

Portishead

Evidence

Moon

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Sigur Rós

Technical details

Source: live · Model: claude-haiku-5-5 · Run: 2026-10-20T03:39:37.669Z

Metadata: d1277bebb711844643158c6e8e992f6c804480c24e24a008c99ad5b185769ed3 · Configuration: 5945bad175c8ff1ec247a68bc85c13d4097bdfac9b75767a40e467fcba312bf7

model: claude-haiku-5-5
baseline: catalog-only model
steps: 4
totalInputTokens: 32000
totalOutputTokens: 4096
inputTokens: 8000
outputTokens: 1024
deadlineMs: 45000
reservationUsd: 0.02
maxRetries: 0

With Qloo

movie: 6BBB34F4-9345-4459-82AE-10991FA35CD2
book: 436EB434-2437-4A36-97E2-17A062D6C48D
artist: 6F2C4E85-CE79-4645-BAB3-3DF7EB4F4AC1

3979 ms · Reserved $0.02 · 2026-10-20T03:39:33.542Z

Model usage

Step 1: 1453 input tokens · 43 output tokens · input bound 3997
Step 2: 1921 input tokens · 375 output tokens · input bound 4980

Without Qloo

movie: 6BBB34F4-9345-4459-82AE-10991FA35CD2
book: D5271D32-4043-4104-ACC2-8FE0EF32D3FB
artist: 045707A1-C8EF-443F-A882-1B97AC69DC9A

4121 ms · Reserved $0.02 · 2026-10-20T03:39:37.664Z

Model usage

Step 1: 2435 input tokens · 168 output tokens · input bound 5109
Step 2: 2442 input tokens · 296 output tokens · input bound 5329

Signals: Arrival, Piranesi, Radiohead

Exclusions: C7EC4CA9-1CCC-4991-B738-55F075441B3F, 55908017-4CFD-4688-9A7E-7B1FF04B171D, 70CAE5BF-2F4C-445C-A3E5-4EDACFC3591C

Locks: None

Actual billing and recipient preference have not been measured.

Different choices do not prove better choices.