When a Spreadsheet Stops Working for AI Spend Tracking
A spreadsheet is the correct way to start tracking AI spend. It is free, everyone can use it, and the
A spreadsheet is the correct way to start tracking AI spend. It is free, everyone can use it, and the
Tracking spend on a simple AI feature is straightforward: one request, one call, one cost. Agentic workflows break that model.
Most AI spend tracking happens once a month, when the invoice arrives and someone reconciles it. That cadence is fine
Few organizations buy their AI from a single source. Spend spreads across multiple model providers, several AI-enabled SaaS products,
Total AI spend is the number everyone tracks and the number that explains the least. It tells you what happened
AI spend tracking sounds like a large project. Set up correctly, the core of it takes about a week and
Most organizations discover they need to track AI spend at the worst possible moment: when a finance review turns up
The bill being higher than expected is a slightly different problem from the bill being high. It means your mental
A bill that doubles month over month feels alarming, but it is one of the more diagnosable problems in AI
The question comes up in almost every finance review once a company starts using AI at scale: why is the
Many organizations pay for AI in two separate ways at once: seat-based subscriptions for people using the chat product,
When usage climbs but the number of users and requests stayed flat, something has decoupled your cost from your traffic.