After two years of maxing out on AI tools, many organizations are confronting an uncomfortable reality: AI costs don't scale linearly with adoption.
As workflows move beyond simple chatbots to autonomous agents, token consumption has exploded. Although the cost per token has declined, the total number of tokens being processed has increased even faster, driving expenses sharply upward. What many executives assumed would resemble a predictable software subscription has now turned into an infrastructure cost headache that grows with every prompt, workflow, and AI agent deployed.
