Nobody knows where their AI budget is going
Executive Take
A rising AI bill with no attribution means you can't tell which use cases are worth funding. Leaders need workflow-level cost tracking now, before scale turns small inefficiencies into permanent budget drains.
Executive Summary
Companies moving AI from pilot to production often cannot trace spending to specific teams or workflows, only total invoices. Gartner predicts worldwide AI spending will hit $2.59 trillion in 2026, up 47% from 2025, and expects over 40% of agentic AI projects to be canceled by 2027 due to rising costs and unclear value.
Why It Matters
CTOs and CFOs are approving AI agents based on pilot performance, then getting blindsided when usage scales into millions of paid requests. Finance and technology leaders need real-time cost attribution before the next budget cycle, not after.
Bizquad Perspective
Most leaders are still hunting for cheaper models when the real savings sit in redesigning workflows to stop redundant calls, which cheaper pricing alone can never fix.