AI cost management
At 11:47 PM on Black Friday 2025, the cloud billing dashboard inside a major omnichannel retailer's FinOps war room lit up like a slot machine hitting jackpot. Except nobody was celebrating. In less than 14 hours, a cascade of uncoordinated AI agent workloads had consumed GPU compute
AI cost management
There is a reckoning quietly building inside enterprise finance departments right now. For the past two years, AI infrastructure costs were treated like cloud compute was in 2013: a vague, centralized line item that leadership accepted as the price of innovation. That era is ending. In H2 2026, CFOs are
AI cost management
There is a pattern playing out in enterprise engineering orgs right now that nobody wants to be the one to explain in a board meeting. A team ships a multi-agent workflow. It works beautifully in staging. It goes to production. Three weeks later, a finance VP sends a Slack message
Agentic AI
There is a financial time bomb quietly ticking inside most enterprise SaaS platforms that have deployed agentic AI features in the past year or two. It does not show up on your AWS bill in any obvious way. It does not trigger an alert in Datadog. Your finance team cannot