Spend & Tools
What the money should look like when it's working. Seats vs. usage, plan tiers, vendor choice.
Guides
How to Choose AI Tools for Your Team
How to choose AI tools for your team: standardize the foundation, let heavy users pick their chat tools, and fund role-specific software.
Evaluating Spend
AI spend analysis for leaders: classify direct and indirect AI spend, find every billing source, and run the five-minute audit your CFO will accept.
Articles
AI Cost Allocation Should Follow the Workflow
AI cost allocation by headcount hides which work the money bought. Charge metered AI to the workflow and its owner; spread only the shared platform.
An AI Spend Cap Needs a Response Plan
An AI spend cap should trigger a decision, not ration useful work. Set it around a named workflow, owner, and response when costs move.
AI Software Renewal Starts With Usage
An AI software renewal should start with usage: who relies on the tool, which workflows changed, and which seats still belong in the plan.
The AI Spending Dashboard Your CFO Needs
An AI usage dashboard gives your CFO the answer a budget total cannot: who is using AI, what it costs, and which workflows produce the work.
How Many AI Seats Should Your Company Buy?
How many AI seats to buy per employee, which flat plans deserve an audit, where metering belongs, and the benchmark your CFO will accept.
Should You Build Your Own AI?
Build vs. buy for enterprise AI comes down to one question: who absorbs the churn when the model gets deprecated? Here's the narrow case where building wins.
ChatGPT vs. Claude vs. Gemini: What to Buy
ChatGPT vs Claude vs Gemini, compared for a buyer: a clear verdict, a feature and pricing table, and which one to pick for your org.
Defensible AI Spend
Your AI budget is going up. It will keep going up. Stop defending the total and start defending the shape, because that's the only number your CFO will accept.