The problem isn't that AI teams lack cost data. It's that the token dashboard and the cloud bill describe different systems, owned by different teams, with no reliable way to connect them. A support agent may resolve one ticket after five model calls, a retrieval step, two tool calls, and a retry. The business records one completed case. The infrastructure records a scatter of requests, pods, memory, accelerator time, and shared services. Until those records meet, cost optimization is partly…
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