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

AI spend has outgrown the FinOps playbook.

Token prices keep falling, yet enterprise AI bills keep climbing. CFOs who handed out unlimited AI budgets in 2024 are asking hard questions about ROI, and FinOps owners are stuck explaining spend that lives across four very different layers: cloud-native AI services, direct AI provider contracts, AI-powered developer tools, and the shadow AI quietly embedded inside every SaaS platform you already pay for.

Asaf Liveanu (CPO and Co-Founder, Finout) sits down with Siddharth Jain from OpenAI's finance team to map the four layers of AI cost, show where visibility breaks down at each one, and give FinOps owners a practical playbook for walking into the CFO conversation prepared.

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