The AI invoice nobody planned for — and how Cisco is solving it from the inside

Finance is asking IT to justify AI spend. Most IT leaders don’t have a good answer. Hear from the Cisco leaders driving our AI adoption and infrastructure about how we are building our own — from the inside. 

The economics of enterprise AI at scale 

Token consumption has quickly become a core currency of enterprise competitiveness. Your ability to deploy AI economically, efficiently, and at scale will determine not just your AI ROI, but your organization’s success in this operating climate. 

Yet as enterprises scale, cost and a lack of visibility and trust become the deciding factors in sustainable AI, not the technology itself. When every autonomous action consumes tokens, costs can become difficult to forecast and even harder to control without the right visibility.  

IT leaders and engineering teams are contending with disconnected vendor dashboards and manual reports, lacking a reliable view into which teams are spending what, and…