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Practical writing on controlling AI spend, attributing LLM costs, and making your AI budget work harder — new posts every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
5 Types of AI Waste Draining Your LLM Budget
Most engineering teams using Large Language Models (LLMs) have no idea how much of their budget is being wasted on unnecessary costs. A $5,000/month OpenAI bill tells you nothing about whether it's due to context bloat, model overkill, or cache misses. For instance, a company like Meta uses LLMs to…
Controlling AI Costs in Agentic Workflows: LangGraph and AutoGen
Most engineering teams working with Large Language Models (LLMs) are familiar with the concept of agentic workflows, where an agent loop coordinates multiple model calls to achieve a specific task. However, what many teams don't realize is that these agent-based workflows can cost 10-50x more than…
AI Chargeback: How to Allocate LLM Costs to Business Units
Most finance teams struggle to allocate Large Language Model (LLM) costs to the right business units, resulting in a lack of accountability and a blurred understanding of which departments are driving AI spend. This problem is exacerbated by the fact that LLM providers, such as OpenAI, charge by…
Pre-Call Budget Enforcement: Why Post-Hoc Alerts Are Too Late
Most engineering teams have experienced the frustration of receiving a massive bill from their Large Language Model (LLM) provider, only to realize that a single feature or department has blown through their entire budget. A $2,500/month OpenAI bill tells you nothing about whether it's the chatbot…
AI Cost Management for Customer Support Teams
Most customer support teams have no idea how much their AI-powered chatbots actually cost to run. A $5,000/month OpenAI bill tells you nothing about whether it's the chatbot, the knowledge base, or the nightly batch job that's burning through your budget. Cognocient solves this with its AI cost…
The CFO's Guide to AI Spend: From Invoice to Intelligence
Most CFOs receive a single monthly invoice for their company's AI spend, which can range from $2,000 to $50,000 or more, depending on the size of the organization and its AI usage. However, this one-size-fits-all invoice provides little to no insight into how the money is being spent, making it…
How to Attribute LLM Costs by Feature in 2 Minutes
Most teams have no idea which feature is burning their AI budget. A $2,000/month OpenAI bill tells you nothing about whether it's the chatbot, the search feature, or the nightly batch job. This lack of visibility is a major problem, as it makes it impossible to optimize AI spend or make informed…
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