Free Lesson
Build an AI Cost Brief for Leadership
30 min
Oct 28, 2026 12:00 PM
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What you'll learn
Turn usage into a budget line
Convert tokens, seats, and hardware into a monthly dollar figure a finance lead will accept.
State the tradeoff plainly
Explain cost, speed, quality, and risk in one page, including what you know and what is untested.
Make the recommendation
Use a one-page decision brief to ask for a go, a pause, or a smaller pilot, with the numbers attached.
Why this topic matters
AI decisions stall when the people paying can't see what it costs or what could go wrong. In this lesson I take one real AI proposal and turn it into a one-page brief: monthly cost, the tradeoffs, what is still unknown, and a clear recommendation. You'll leave with the template and a way to talk about AI cost that leadership can act on.
