
Financial control plane for AI spend
cloudzero.com (opens in a new tab)CloudZero built a financial control plane for AI, giving finance, IT and engineering one system that ties each dollar of AI spend to the outcome it produced. AI is the fastest-growing line on enterprise profit and loss statements and the least understood: only 14 percent of CFOs can currently prove a return on it. The product answers what it cost to produce a given outcome, for a given customer, on a given model. Some of the largest cloud spenders in the world run on it, including Coinbase, Duolingo, DoorDash and Shutterstock, and it processed 14 trillion billing events in the last twelve months. It is the first listed partner on Anthropic's cost and usage API.