Spend & Tools

What the money should look like when it's working. Seats vs. usage, plan tiers, vendor choice.

Guides

Spend & Tools

Choosing Tools

How to choose AI tools when leverage is concentrated in 15% of your users. The opinionated framework: who picks, what to fund, when to standardize, and what to do about Microsoft.

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Spend & Tools

Evaluating Spend

What an AI budget should look like when it's working. Seats vs. usage, plan tiers, shadow AI, and the five-minute audit your CFO will accept.

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Articles

Spend & Tools

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.