AI cost, in plain English.
No jargon, no fluff - just where the money goes across the AI tools your team already uses, and how to keep more of it.
One employee, one week, one meme game - and an $81,267 Claude bill nobody saw coming. Plus why Microsoft and Amazon are quietly pulling back too.
5,000 engineers, no per-person limits, and a full-year budget gone by April. What the biggest public AI-cost blowout teaches every company.
Real patterns from teams that tamed their spend: right-sizing models, reusing repeated answers, retiring seats nobody logs into.
Most companies have more AI in use than they think. Why it happens and how to get the full picture.
Licenses quietly renew whether anyone uses them or not. How to spot the seats nobody touches - and what to do with them.
Premium models are brilliant - and usually overkill. Which everyday jobs run perfectly on cheaper ones, and the few that do not.
Every AI answer has a price tag, counted in tokens. What they are, why some tasks cost 100x more than others, and how to read your first bill.