Posts Tagged ‘AI ROI’
Whether AI purchases pay off, and how a buyer can tell from its own records.
In the book: Chapter 1: The Illusion of Value (1) · Chapter 7: Value Is Not Promised; It Is Proven (4) · Chapter 8: The Buyer Lifecycle Is Progressive Governance (1) · Chapter 9: The Value Control Loop (1) · Chapter 12: Compounded Value (1) · Chapter 13: The AI Amplifier (2) · Chapter 14: Who Controls Value Engagement? (2) · Chapter 20: The Buyer Value Practice (1) · Chapter 22: Embedding Buyer Governance (1)
Outcome-Based AI Pricing Still Lets the Vendor Keep the Count
Outcome pricing now lets the buyer pick what it pays for, but the count still lives in the vendor’s platform, and the event on the invoice is rarely the result the purchase was approved to produce.
Read MoreWhy AI Success-Story Collections Can’t Prove ROI for You
Collections of AI success stories are good for ideas, but the numbers in them were almost always written by someone other than the buyer who lived with the result.
Read MoreAI Token Pricing: The Seller Sets Both the Price and the Quantity
The list price of the leading model fell by about a fifth while it spends roughly three times the median number of tokens to finish the same work, and only one of those numbers was in the announcement.
Read MoreNinety Days to Prove AI Value
An analyst firm has put a deadline on proof, and nothing in the advice says where the claim being tested comes from or whose words it is written in.
Read MoreLaunching an AI Model Proves Little Until the Results Show Up
Getting a model into production is a milestone the deploying team awards itself. A capability is demonstrated at the point of outcome, and in Domino’s 2026 survey the organizations that built governance first were also the ones delivering faster.
Read MoreCompanies Track AI Spending but Not the Value It Creates
Accenture’s July report finds AI spend landing on the cost line while the value it creates goes untracked. It names the cause accurately. Its fix, a shared forum, leaves the metered bill where it was.
Read MoreWhy Big Four Reports Shipped With Fabricated AI Citations
Deloitte, KPMG and EY each shipped a report with fabricated citations inside eight months. None of them decided to skip the check. The check was never priced, so it never happened.
Read MoreMost Firms Claim an AI Return Without Knowing the Cost
Ninety-eight percent of executives report a return on their AI. Twenty-six percent can see what it costs. A return without a denominator is an impression, not a ratio.
Read More‘Unit Economics’ Means Something Different to Buyers and Sellers
Boards, finance teams and vendors all say unit economics. Each one means a different cost basis, and the buyer that waits for the vendor’s definition has already conceded the measure.
Read MoreThe New AI Economics Standard Measures Labor Replaced
A standards body for AI economics now exists. Its opening measure of value is the share of work done without a person, which prices substitution and never asks whether the promised outcome arrived.
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