Free Lesson
Design AI Features Your Business Can Afford
Part of The Full Stack Career
45 min
Sep 16, 2026 3:00 PM
What you'll learn
See what your AI feature actually costs to run
That "free" AI feature? It can eat 45% of the subscription price. We'll do the math live and watch it happen.
Cut that cost with five design levers
When it fires, how long the answer, which model runs it, you already control the bill. You just weren't told.
Design with cost as a real constraint
Treat cost like any other design constraint. Bake the economics into the interaction so the feature survives review.
Why this topic matters
For 20 years software was free to run, so design learned one rule: maximize engagement. AI broke it, every use now costs money, and the interaction patterns you design are most of the bill. Yet designers are rarely in the room when AI features get cut as "too expensive." This session gives you the number, the levers, and the language to defend your work where it actually gets killed.
You'll learn from
Sarah Khan
Product designer who treats AI cost as a design problem. Ex-Copilot, Amplitude.
