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Can You Prove Your AI Spend Was Worth It?

About this event

Adam Richter (AWS) and Priya Shastri (GEICO) on the metric that separates a real win from a good story. Hosted by Chase Bennett, Sales Engineer at Finout.

Priya's team at GEICO cut claims processing from two weeks to eight hours. A real win, but her team still cannot say what metric would justify running 50 expensive models instead of one.

Adam built Cost Per Outcome to close that gap: a business value metric that can't be gamed (Goodhart's Law and all), covering both internal and external AI use cases. FinOps didn't need a new framework for AI, it needed the same one, applied with more discipline.

This session pairs the framework with the practitioner who actually had to prove it held up. Most teams are still making AI ROI harder than it needs to be.

What you'll leave with:

  • Build a business value metric that resists gaming
  • Tell an operational win from a defensible ROI case
  • Apply FinOps discipline to AI spend instead of reaching for a new framework
  • See how GEICO's team answered the "why 50 models" question

Hosted by

  • External speaker
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    Adam Richter Senior Optimization Solutions Architect @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Team member
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    Chase Bennett Sales Engineer @ Finout
  • External speaker
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    Priya Shastri Software Engineering Leader in Cloud infrastructure @ GEICO

Finout

​​In the agentic era, infrastructure and spend evolve faster than teams can track. Finout helps FinOps, finance, and engineering teams manage this complexity by turning shared, dynamic costs into clear ownership, accurate allocation, and actionable unit economics across AI, cloud, and Kubernetes.