The $750 Wake-Up Call: Are You Ready?
When GitHub Copilot moved from a flat monthly subscription to token-based billing, developers saw projected costs jump from $29/month to $750/month overnight. It wasn't an anomaly — it was a preview. Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT Enterprise, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Gemini for Workspace, AWS Q: every major AI product is moving onto the same curve.
This is cloud all over again. In the 2010s, the average enterprise was wasting 30–35% of cloud spend because finance teams treated it like old capex. Most still haven't implemented proper cloud FinOps. Now layer on five to fifteen AI vendors, each with their own metering model, token pricing that varies 8x between model tiers, and agentic workflows consuming tokens for tasks users never see — and you have a far faster, far less visible version of the same problem.
NeuraSec's AI FinOps Readiness engagement gives you what most organisations are missing: complete inventory of what you're running, a tiering strategy that routes workloads to the right model at the right cost, a clear operating model with ownership and accountability, and a 12-month roadmap with quick wins first.
What Your Organisation Gets
AI Inventory & Cost Visibility
A complete picture of every AI tool, vendor, user, and data touchpoint — with real spend mapped to teams and workloads.
Tiering & Routing Strategy
Map workloads to the right model tier — flat-rate, metered cloud, or local inference — so you only pay frontier model prices when the value justifies it.
Target Operating Model
Clear ownership of AI spend, forecasting discipline, showback/chargeback design, and sign-off governance for new agentic deployments.
EU AI Act & Governance Overlay
Cost discipline paired with compliance — because ungoverned spend is also ungoverned risk. We ensure your FinOps model aligns with regulatory obligations.
Why Act Now
Costs Are Already Escalating
Token-based billing has arrived. Every week without visibility is a week of untracked spend, shadow AI, and budget surprises.
The Window Is Short
The organisations that get ahead of this in 2026 will have defensible AI economics by 2027. The rest will spend the same period explaining to their boards why costs tripled.
Shadow AI Is Shadow Spend
When every team can spin up an AI agent that bills by the token, ungoverned experimentation becomes an untracked liability — and a potential data breach.
Regulation Demands Justification
The EU AI Act and ICO guidance may require you to justify not just what AI you use, but how much, and for what. Inventory and governance are no longer optional.
