AI Cost Model · What one unit of useful work costs — today, and at the autonomous enterprise

In review
1 AI Cost Model
2 Cost Architecture
3 Your Baseline
4 Self-Assessment
5 Cost Studio AI
6 Business Case

AI Cost Model

Every figure on this page is computed from your own invoice, your own volumes and published cost research — never from a price we supply. Click any figure to see its arithmetic.

The question the invoice cannot answer

Your invoice is denominated in resources. Your business is denominated in outcomes.

Cloud and model bills price tokens, calls and GPU-hours. No line on them says what one resolved ticket cost. That gap is not an accounting inconvenience — for most organisations it is the finding, and it is the reason nobody can say whether the next phase is affordable.

Cost Architecture

Every figure on this page is computed from your own invoice, your own volumes and published cost research — never from a price we supply. Click any figure to see its arithmetic.

Your Baseline

Four inputs: what you spend, roughly how it splits, how many units of work you complete, and where you are today. Nothing here leaves this browser.

Self-Assessment

Enter what each line actually costs, then say whether that cost is Hidden, Transparent or Optimized. Only Optimized removes the saving — seeing a cost does not reduce it.

Cost Studio

Describe a use case. An AI drafts its cost shape — calls per unit, context, retrieval, retries — which you then correct. It never sets a number.

The use case

Business Case

Unit cost now, unit cost at the autonomous enterprise, the ladder between them, and which axes decide whether you survive the trip.