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Understand what your AI use case really costs

Start with one workload and a clear time period. Include the costs needed to build, run and review it, even when they sit in different budgets.

What you need

  • A description of the work and how much of it is done.
  • Licence, consumption or infrastructure charges.
  • The people, integration and operating work supporting the workload.
  • An agreed way to allocate shared costs.

Work through it

Define the workload and its cost boundary, then build the estimate in the TCO worksheet. Where model or hosting choices matter, test the delivery options before carrying the total into the investment case.

Open the TCO worksheetRead the AI TCO framework

Also useful

A missing figure is a gap to resolve. It is not a zero-cost assumption.

Other tasks: Prove a use case's value · Prepare an investment decision. This task draws on the Measure phase of the AI Economics System.