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The Four Layers of AI Cost: A FinOps Playbook for the CFO Conversation

About this event

Ask a senior FinOps lead how much their company spends on AI. You'll get a confident answer. Ask them to show you the bill. You'll get a much shorter list than the answer suggested.

That gap is the problem. AI cost has spread across four layers in the enterprise stack, each with its own pricing model, its own owner, and its own way of going wrong. Token prices dropped 80% in 18 months. Enterprise AI bills kept climbing. And 78% of IT leaders reported unexpected charges from AI pricing last year.

Asaf Liveanu (CPO and Co-Founder, Finout) sits down with Siddharth Jain (AI Engineering Lead, OpenAI) to map all four layers and hand FinOps owners a practical playbook for the CFO conversation that is already starting. Siddharth brings the view from inside the provider, the perspective most FinOps teams have never had access to before.

You'll walk away with:

  • The four-layer framework for mapping AI spend across your organization
  • The questions your CFO is about to ask, and how to answer them
  • Where attribution breaks down today, and what to instrument first
  • A view from inside OpenAI on why visibility is structurally hard, and what that means for your forecasts

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    Asaf Liveanu
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    Siddharth Jain AI Engineering Lead @ OpenAI

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.