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AI Spend Budget Busters: Expanding the Budget Planning Lens

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State of Tokenomics: September 2026

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AI Model Selection: Choosing Based on Value Driven Consumption Strategy

Over-modeling is the new over-provisioning. How FinOps practitioners can support AI model selection as a governed ROI lever.

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FinOps and Tokenomics: How do they fit together?

FinOps for AI and Tokenomics are two projections of the same work. Neither is a subset of the other. Why running both surfaces findings a si

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Agentic FinOps: Why Adoption is Slower Than the Conversation

We dig into the reasons and the bounded patterns and first steps practitioners use to delegate authority to AI agents safely.

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Who sets the AI budget?

Bottom-up budgets cannot produce AI numbers at scale, and finance cannot see inside the spend. The answer is a division of labor.

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FinOps X 2026 Day 2 Keynote: From Alerts to Agents

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Introducing FOCUS 1.4: Invoice Reconciliation, Commitment Details, and Specification Maturity