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Building Agents with RoI for Product Managers & Engineers

Part of Production-Ready AI Agents with Claude

45 min
Aug 14, 2026 12:00 PM
Virtual (Zoom)

In this video

What you'll learn

Calculate the True Cost of Every AI Agent You Run

Track every cost: API calls, infrastructure, escalation. Know exactly what your agents cost per request and monthly.

Price AI Services Based on Profit, Not Guesses

Learn pricing models (per-request, unit-value, tiered). Price services to cover costs, maintain margin, maximize profit.

Prove ROI With Data That Impresses Executives

Measure baseline and current ROI. Answer 'Is this profitable?' with data that clearly justifies continued investment.

Build Monitoring Dashboards That Drive Decisions

Create cost, profit, and ROI dashboards. Know when to optimize, scale, or shut down based on real business impact data.

Why this topic matters

AI agents are expensive. Most companies have zero visibility into costs or profit. This monitoring gap is where bad decisions happen: over-investing in unprofitable features, under-scaling profitable ones, missing cost optimization opportunities. Learn to build cost + profit monitoring. This transforms AI from a cost center into a measurable business investment you can defend and optimize.

You'll learn from

Mahesh Yadav

Mahesh Yadav

Ex AI MAANG Product Lead | 10k+ Alums l Founder - Agentic AI Institute

Previously at

Google
Meta
Microsoft
Amazon Web Services
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