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FinOps and cloud economics for GenAI spend
Executive workshop: unit economics, chargeback, and board-ready reporting
Industry: Enterprise FinOps / AI strategy
Challenge
Leadership saw rising GenAI and cloud bills without a model linking spend to product outcomes or ownership.
Approach
- Mapped token and infrastructure cost to workflows and teams.
- Introduced chargeback/showback views and budget alerts tied to owners.
- Defined kill/iterate criteria for pilots that never left demo stage.
Outcomes
- Pilot portfolio reduced to workflows with baselines and owners.
- Finance and engineering shared a single cost narrative for quarterly reviews.
Stack
Cost Explorer / Azure Cost Management · Python notebooks · Executive dashboards
Lessons
- ROI conversations fail without a baseline metric before the pilot.
- GenAI FinOps is product ownership, not only a cloud bill export.