AI pilots often escape into production-like spend without product owners watching unit cost per transaction or per user. Reserved capacity and orphaned experiments inflate bills quietly.
Treat AI spend like a product P&L
Tag AI projects, set budgets with alerts, right-size instances, and shut down idle endpoints automatically. Compare build-vs-buy on total cost including data egress and engineering time—not only list GPU prices.
FinOps and platform teams should publish a simple scorecard executives can read without a cloud console.
Javan Informatics Group helps organizations turn these priorities into governed, operable programs—not one-off projects.