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From Experimentation to Spend Discipline: Managing Token-Based Spend

AI adoption is accelerating, but governance isn't quite keeping pace.

As organizations embrace AI, token consumption models have introduced a new category of spend that is decentralized, usage-based, and difficult to forecast. Without the right visibility and controls, costs can escalate long before anyone understands where they're coming from or even who owns them.

Procurement has an opportunity to change all that. By bringing greater visibility, governance, stakeholder collaboration, and commercial discipline to AI spend, procurement can help the business scale AI adoption without slowing innovation or experimentation.

In this whitepaper, developed in partnership with the team at Tropic, we explore how procurement can build an effective AI category strategy, improve visibility into token-based consumption patterns, and create the commercial structures needed to manage one of the fastest-growing areas of technology spend.

Download this whitepaper to learn:

• Why AI token spend requires a different approach than traditional software procurement
• How procurement can create visibility into AI consumption before costs spiral
• Practical governance strategies that encourage innovation while improving financial discipline
• What procurement should consider when negotiating AI contracts and consumption-based pricing

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