The C-Suite Perception: The AI Factor - 4As

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AI costs are rising. Some predict that token costs will hit the P&L as the second largest line item for most businesses, behind only people. What started as a conversation rooted in tech budgets has become a C-suite and boardroom agenda item, complicated by intense volatility in AI pricing.

Potential public offerings create more unpredictability in pricing models that eventually must stand up to the risk appetite of everyday investors rather than VC.

Pricing is unlikely to settle in the near future, meaning the agencies building for volatility — model routing, per-project profiles, usage caps, abstraction layers — will out-margin the ones waiting for stability. They will also be the ones a client CFO calls.

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