WHITE PAPER · CEOs, CFOs & CIOs
The AI Costs You Don’t See.
Human oversight, total costs and time actually reallocated: three blind spots in your AI projects’ ROI.
An impressive demo is not enough to justify an investment. This white paper helps you examine what the API bill leaves out.
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QOGNITO · WHITE PAPER The AI Costs
You Don’t
See.
From time saved
to demonstrated value.
Three questions for your next decision meeting
Who checks the result?
Make visible the review, correction and oversight work that AI generation shifts to people.
What is the total cost?
Distinguish model spending, infrastructure costs and the human work that remains.
What happens to the time saved?
Assess how saved time needs to be reallocated to create economic value.
EXCERPT
€600 in API costs is not the cost of the service
“Comparing the raw cost of inference with a full payroll bill is like comparing the price of jet fuel with the total cost of an airline fleet.”
In the SAGA teaching case, €600 in API costs sits within a total cost of €16,500, including €12,000 in human work. These figures are simulation assumptions, not observed market averages.
Inside the white paper
- The finding: the illusion of total delegation.
- The model: total costs and the need to reallocate saved time.
- The decision: a set of questions to assess your project.
About the author
Boris Guarisma, president of Qognito, supports the scoping and governance of AI projects. This document draws on the two completed sections of the SAGA-IA course covering diagnosis and the economic model.
The SAGA-IA syllabus and presentation materials are in preparation.
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