# Minimum Studio [Minimum Studio](https://minimum.studio/) reduced WU consumption from 6 million to 900K for a SaaS app that helped sales development teams improve their sales process. ## Optimization opportunity When Minimum Studio was optimizing the SaaS app, they reviewed its app metrics to understand where workload units (WU) were being used. They realized there was an API call to an external data source that was always executed — even if the element was hidden. This meant API calls were running when they didn’t need to be, and fixing it would reduce WU consumption signficantly. ## Optimizations: * **Review API calls:** Minimum Studio reduced the frequency of the API call so that it only occured when the element was visible. Instead of keeping the conditional on the API call, they adjusted the logic by adding a conditional to the element itself. * **Migrate to workload-based plans:** Apps on workload-based pricing plans (as opposed legacy, capacity-based plans) separate frontend and backend server processing in order to prevent background tasks from degrading performance. Minimum Studio took advantage of these improvements by changing the app’s plan. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://manual.bubble.io/help-guides/workload/optimizing-workload/agency-showcases/minimum-studio.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.