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World Congress 2026 North America • Sep 25, 2026 • Session details

Headroom: A Context Optimization Layer for LLM Applications

Devanshi Vyas

Are verbose JSONs exploding your LLM API costs? Headroom is an open-source optimization layer that safely shrinks context sizes by up to 90% without altering your codebase.

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