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Finance: token costs are not a single expense type. Tokens spent building internal capability behave like investment; tokens supporting internal work are operating expense by function; and tokens consumed inside a customer-facing product are cost of goods sold that directly affect gross margin.
Procurement: contracts written for predictable seat-based software do not hold up against variable consumption, which is why unexpected charges are now the norm rather than the exception.
Engineering: routing and caching only produce durable savings when paired with evaluation suites, which act as guardrails against silent quality regressions that a cost dashboard will never surface.
Governance: shadow AI is measurable. Ramp reports that the volume of AI-related reimbursement transactions tripled year over year, driven by twice as many companies processing them. With median business, AI spend grew fourfold between February 2025 and February 2026.
Leadership: because a misconfigured agent can generate an outsized bill in hours, monthly invoice review is too slow a control loop for this category of spend.

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