AI is showing up everywhere. The question isn’t whether you’ll use it. It’s how you’ll keep its cost, risk, and value under control.
AI is becoming a line item you may not even know you have.
Copilots, assistants, agents, APIs, and AI-powered features are rapidly becoming part of the tools your organization already uses. But every prompt, workflow, and automated process has a cost, and simply telling employees to “use the approved AI” may not be a realistic strategy.
In this Hacker Hour, we’ll cut through the confusion around AI tokens, subscriptions, and usage costs and explore a more practical question: How do you give employees access to the right AI tools for the right jobs without creating runaway costs or unnecessary risk?
We’ll share real-world lessons from SBS’s own AI journey and discuss a practical framework for evaluating AI use cases based on business value, cost, security, and governance.
You’ll leave with a smarter way to answer: Is this AI use case actually worth paying for?