tech
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Why Agentic AI Burns Through Tokens So Much Faster
Why does a routine proposal-deck request burn 163,000 tokens? Here’s the token mechanic behind agentic AI’s exploding costs.
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The Price Cut That Isn’t: What Sonnet 5’s Launch Pricing Teaches You About Reading Any AI Vendor’s Rate Card
Sonnet 5 launched 60% cheaper. A tokenizer change means the real savings are smaller. Here’s how to read past any vendor’s sticker price.
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Who Approves the Robot’s Journal Entry?
Four ERP vendors just gave AI agents the power to post journal entries. Here’s what that means for your internal controls.
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Return on Tokens (ROT): Is Your AI Spend Actually Generating Value?
Token consumption tripled but value didn’t follow. Here’s the ROT framework finance professionals need to evaluate AI spend.
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The AI Output Gap
A peer-reviewed MIT and Wharton study of 100,000+ developers found that AI tools increased code output by 1,700% — but software releases rose only 30%. Here’s what that gap means for accountants.
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API vs. Self-Hosted AI: Which Path Is Right for You?
When it comes to deploying AI, most organizations default to signing up for an enterprise API. That’s not always wrong — but for some, it means overpaying, exposing data, or building on a foundation with hidden risk at exit. Here’s a five-question framework to figure out which path actually fits.
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The AI Price war
Last week, DeepSeek quietly made something permanent that most enterprise software buyers haven’t noticed yet. A 75% discount on their best model — originally a promotional event set to expire May 31 — is now just the price. No expiration. No asterisk. That means running 100 million output tokens through DeepSeek’s V4-Pro costs about $348…