Ai Budget

You approved the AI budget. You deployed the tools. You're still waiting for the ROI. It's not the technology. It's the sequence. Most enterprises deployed before they diagnosed. Scaled before they piloted. Bought tool…

Everyone's burning compute. That's not a metaphor, but the honest truth of what’s happening in enterprise AI. Uber spent its entire annual AI budget in the first four months of this year. Most organizations are still i…

Some of the most AI-forward companies in the world are quietly running into the same problem: AI is getting expensive fast, and more tokens doesn't mean more value.   Increasingly, customers are coming to Scite to fix ex…

Average AI budget per employee makes little sense as a top 1% user on Cursor produces 46x more AI-assisted lines per day than the median user. That’s one of the interesting tidbits I found from Cursor’s newly formed CFO…

Anthropic warned AI would eat creative work, and then a few weeks ago they posted a $320K-$400K Head of Copy role. You get it… this contradiction is the point. When production gets cheap, the scarce thing is us, the hu…

Token usage != productivity. The same companies that learned nothing from "lines of code per engineer" just reinvented it with tokens. Amazon, Meta, and half the Fortune 500 are now tracking employees by tokens consume…

I've watched 6-figure AI budgets disappear. GPUs weren't the problem. GPU costs are 15% of AI spend. The other 85% is where budgets actually die. 1️⃣ Data prep eats 80% of project time Cleaning. Labeling. Formatting. B…

I looked at AI spending across dozens of companies. The pattern was stark. The more they spent, the worse their results. 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗯𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 $𝟱𝟬𝗞-$𝟱𝟬𝟬𝗞/𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵: - "AI platform" licenses nobody…

67% of financial institutions are now implementing AI. Only 16% have an enterprise-wide roadmap to support it. That gap is not a strategy. It's a risk. And in financial services, unmanaged risk has a cost. When you look…

Uber reportedly burned through its entire 2026 AI tooling budget by April. That may not be an outlier, but a preview of what’s to come. Ask around and you’ll notice the same theme: token usage is going stratospheric. …