The bill
Who uses what?
Your AI runs through API keys or Bedrock, the bill keeps rising, and nobody can assign it to a team. So it is €300 per head per month, and whether that is too much or too little, nobody knows.
A budget per team replaces the cap per head, rules replace the ban. Measured and enforced in your infrastructure, not at the provider.
Problem
The bill
Your AI runs through API keys or Bedrock, the bill keeps rising, and nobody can assign it to a team. So it is €300 per head per month, and whether that is too much or too little, nobody knows.
The data
Nothing may leave the building, and an agent must not touch the laptop. So officially there is no agent. The developers have one anyway, on a private account.
How it works
Every call from people, tools and agents passes through a gateway in your account. That is where it gets counted, and that is where the rules apply.
A budget per team and application. It replaces the cap per head and is derived from actual usage.
The data class picks the model. Internal data stays with EU inference or on your own hardware. Frontier models are used only with zero retention, and the decision is documented.
Pseudonymisation before the model, filtering before the output. Need-to-know is enforced by the system.
Tool permissions per agent. What an agent may read, write and execute is your decision.
An audit entry per call. Who, what, with which model, for what. Ready whenever someone asks.
What you see: cost and hours per task, cost per outcome, adoption per department, rules and violations. In one dashboard, on your side.
Our stance
The provider's region is the beginning, not the answer. What goes into a prompt and what an agent may touch is decided before the provider, on your side. EU inference is the default. Where a frontier model is needed, with zero retention and documented. Where on-premise AI makes sense, we run the full numbers for hardware and operations.
How it runs
The bill per key, team and model: who carries the usage, where the cap bites, what is paid for twice. One intervention with an amount per finding, at a fixed price.
The gateway in your account, with budgets, data classes, agent permissions and audit. The dashboard goes on, the cap comes off. Fixed price as a share of your AI spend.
Your team runs it. Tokenometrics stays as a licence, self-hosted. We come back when a new model ships, or the auditor does.
Process analysis, prototypes with kill criteria, implementation with a success component. Only once the gateway shows where it pays.
Data and agents
The same rules that apply towards the outside apply inside the building.
An agent that may read everything on the laptop is not a productivity tool but an open window. So every agent gets exactly the permissions its task needs, and not one path more. Data is pseudonymised before a model sees it, and filtered before it reaches a person who should not.
What the EU AI Act demands in oversight, logging and traceability falls out of that as a by-product, not as a project afterwards.
Experience
AI was never a hype for us. It is our craft.
Contact
Cost Picture at a fixed price, a clear result, no obligation.
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