AI Cost Governance and Unit Economics

AI costs balloon silently

Token costs multiply across inference, fine-tuning, and feedback loops.

Without bucketing by use case, teams miss optimization opportunities.

Governance framework

Tag every API call with business context: use case, user segment, decision type.

Calculate unit economics: cost per request, cost per conversion, ROI by feature.

Monitoring

Build dashboards tracking cost trends, cost per model, cost anomalies.

Set cost budgets by use case and alert on overages.

Monthly reviews with product and finance to justify spending.