We Switched AI to Pay-As-You-Go. Why Is the Bill Higher ?
Google’s pay-as-you-go Gemini pricing promises enterprises more control. It also signals the continuation of the bigger shift: AI costs are…
Category: AI Risk
The End of the AI Seat License
Why CIOs and CFOs Are Entering the Most Unpredictable Technology Budget Cycle in Decades By Two93 Staff Last year, a…
Navigating the Shift: What GitHub Copilot’s Move to Usage-Based Billing Means for Enterprise IT Vendor Management
By Staff Writer | June 2026 For the last two decades, IT Vendor Management and Governance was a discipline of…
Executive Brief: Engineering AI Transparency in Vendor Governance
A Governance Reset for CIOs & Vendor Management Leaders For decades, IT leadership and Vendor Management Offices (VMOs) have built…
The Illusion of the “Free” Bot: Why Cheap Agents Can Outcost an FTE
In the rush to scale AI, many organizations are falling for a seductive math problem: “If an offshore FTE costs…
Main AI Risk Contracts Cost FinOps IT Vendor Outsourcing SaaS Sourcing and Procurement Vendor Management Vendor Risk
The Cost Anatomy of AI Talent: When Your IT Vendor Outsources to a Bot
For decades, IT outsourcing has been a game of “labor arbitrage”—buying human hours in lower-cost markets. But as vendors increasingly…
Vendor Risk in the Age of AI – A Practical CIO Perspective
Most of us are used to managing vendor risk when it’s visible: missed deliveries, security findings, cost overruns. AI changes…
Memo to the CIO: Your Cloud and AI Vendor Contracts Are Operational Hallucinations
MEMO: Enterprise CIOs & IT Leadership RE: Critical Vulnerability: The Governance “Air Gap” between Contracts and APIs Executive Summary Your…
The Cost Anatomy of AI: Why Transformation Is More Expensive Than the Model
A Straight Talk Guide for CIOs, CFOs, and Procurement Leaders If you lead IT strategy or procurement for a large…