AI Economics

Understand what your AI investment is producing.

Most organisations can see what AI costs. Far fewer can explain what it delivers. OPTIMAZE connects AI investment to outcomes, giving finance and technology teams a shared view of value.

88%

of organisations are regularly using AI.

62%

are experimenting with AI agents. The investment is accelerating.

39%

attribute enterprise-level EBIT impact to AI. Return accountability is where most organizations fall short.

SOURCE: MCKINSEY STATE OF AI 2025
Why now

Every technology wave gets adopted faster.

Decentralized adoption drives meaningful costs. To reap the full benefit users need autonomy to experiment and iterate fast.

Where AI breaks meaningfully from past trends, is the sheer velocity of adoption. It's no longer just a technology problem, it's a business-wide problem.

Decentralized adoption drives meaningful costs. To reap the full benefit users need autonomy to experiment and iterate fast.

Where AI breaks meaningfully from past trends, is the sheer velocity of adoption. It's no longer just a technology problem, it's a business-wide problem.

Never has it been so important to directly connect outcomes to cost.

Spend visibility

You could always see the total cost. Now you can also see what it produced.

You could always see the total cost. Now you can also see what it produced.

Cost attribution

Real-time, automated cost attribution to team, product, feature, customer and custom views, without the involvement of financial analysts and engineering.

Real-time, automated cost attribution to team, product, feature, customer and custom views, without the involvement of financial analysts and engineering.

Investment Performance

Understand what AI investment is producing. This is where the executive conversation happens.

Understand what AI investment is producing. This is where the executive conversation happens.

What you can answer

The question the platform is built to answer.

OPTIMAZE works backwards from business goals, connecting finance and technology.

01

Which AI initiatives are creating measurable value?

02

What does each AI interaction cost?

03

Which teams are driving consumption?

04

Which models are delivering return?

05

Where should we increase investment?

06

What should we stop funding?

The platform

AI Economics in action.

A unified view of AI investment, allocation and performance across every major model and hosting provider.

Create Attribution Dimension
AI Assistant ✎ Manual Editor
How much are we spending on AI and what are we getting for it?
Joining spend across providers with the business signals…
Found it. $4.3M / year AI spend across OpenAI, Anthropic, Bedrock, Vertex and the cloud you run them on.
· Customer-facing AI · $2.6M$8.7M ROI (3.3× return)
· Internal eng · $1.4M17% productivity gain
· Infra & data · $0.3M

Customer-facing AI is paying for itself 3× over.
What should I scale or cut?
Comparing model performance and team productivity uplift…
Scale up: Customer-facing AI pays 3.3×. Recommendations leads at $3.2M ROI.
Pull back: claude-opus-4-7 on internal eng tasks — 2.4× the sonnet cost for a marginal quality gain. Move routine work to sonnet.
Productivity: Platform +28% with cursor-pro. Identity +4% on the same tool — investigate uptake.

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Describe your attribution structure... How much are we spending on AI and what are we getting for it? what should I scale or cut?
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Create Attribution Dimension ✦ AI ASSISTANT
Your graph will appear here
How much are we spending on AI and what are we getting for it?
Joining spend across providers…
Found it. $4.3M/yr total AI spend.
Customer-facing $2.6M → $8.7M ROI.
Internal eng $1.4M · infra $0.3M.
What should I scale or cut?
Comparing ROI and uplift…
Scale customer-facing AI (3.3×).
Cut opus on routine eng tasks.
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Describe your attribution structure... How much are we spending on AI and what are we getting for it? what should I scale or cut?
INPUT

AI Spend, Business Context

Layer 1

Economic Foundation

Layer 2

Cost Allocation

Layer 3

Investment Performance

INPUT

AI Spend, Business Context

Layer 1

Economic Foundation

Layer 2

Cost Allocation

Layer 3

Investment Performance

Why OPTIMAZE

Beyond AI cost visibility.

Most AI cost management platforms stop at spend visibility.


OPTIMAZE connects AI investment to outcomes through attribution and investment performance.


This allows organisations to move beyond reporting what was spent and start understanding what was produced.

OTHERS
optimaze

Understand AI spend

Understand AI spend

Understand AI investment value

Cost visibility

Cost visibility

Return visibility

Spend dashboards

Spend dashboards

Investment performance

Report what was spent

Report what was spent

Understand what was produced

What you get

The outputs that change the conversation.

A real-time utility that measures technology capital performance based on your business context.

AI Gross Margin Per Feature

Understand which features are earning their keep, stated in business terms, not infrastructure jargon.

AI Portfolio Visibility

Understand the economics of every AI experience, independent of underlying technology. Manage a number, not a mystery.

AI Model Performance

Compare cost and outcome across models based on your conversion metrics. Make model selection a financial decision, not a technical preference.

Cost Per Outcome

Understand the economics behind business results, per resolved ticket, per generated asset, per qualified lead.

Cost Per Non-Conversion

Understand what your non-performing technology is costing you.

Understand what your non-performing technology is costing you.

Cost Per Customer

In one glance see which customers/user/persona are driving the highest AI costs.

Pricing Intelligence

Make packaging and pricing decisions based on feature level economics.

Make packaging and pricing decisions based on feature level economics.

Productivity Validation

Benchmark the productivity promises of your AI providers by measuring their respective outputs, overlaid with time and cost.

Benchmark the productivity promises of your AI providers by measuring their respective outputs, overlaid with time and cost.

Executive Investment Reporting

Board-ready reporting that connects AI spend to business performance. Walk into the budget conversation prepared.

AI Economics Assessment

Where does your organization sit on AI maturity?

Understand where you are today and what the next step looks like. Takes two minutes.

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THE AI ACCOUNTABILITY GAP

84%

84%

of finance organizations are planning or deploying AI initiatives.

36%

36%

of CFOs feel confident driving meaningful outcomes from AI.

39%

39%

of organizations can attribute enterprise-level EBIT impact to AI.

AI adoption is accelerating.

Confidence in outcomes is not.


Source: Gartner 2026 CFO Top Priorities;
Mckinsey state of ai 2025
THE Confidence GAP

Most organizations can tell you what they are spending.

AI consumption is visible.

Far fewer can explain with confidence, what they are getting back.

Business outcomes are not visibile.

As AI investment scales from experimentation to operational spend, confidence is the missing ingredient in decision-making.

That gap is where better investment decisions are won or lost.

OPTIMAZE

"The AI race won't be won by who spends the most, it will be won by those who know where to double down."

Start providing teams with real-time cost allocation breakdowns in an afternoon and set up unit economics in days, not months.

Faq’s

Frequently Asked Questions

What is AI Economics?

How do you measure AI ROI?

What is AI attribution?

How do organisations connect AI spend to business outcomes?

What is the difference between AI cost management and AI Economics?

How do you calculate cost per AI interaction?

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Technology Capital Performance platform that helps organisations understand which technology investments are creating value, which are underperforming, and where capital should go next.