Agentic FinOps: A Business Leaders Guide: The Economics of Autonomous AI by Anil Prakash Singh
English | June 17, 2026 | ASIN: B0H4HD1K26 | 91 pages | EPUB | 1.15 Mb
Most of what your AI costs never shows up on the invoice.
When a person uses software, the bill is the cost. When an agent does the work, the bill is the floor, not the figure. The number that decides whether AI pays off is the cost of one verified, successful outcome: the attempts that failed, the mistakes that slipped through, the review that caught them, and the governance that kept it safe. In the examples in this guide, tokens are often a low single-digit share of the real cost.
This is the plain-language guide for the people who have to make the call. No code. No equations. Just the economics of autonomous AI, explained for executives, FinOps teams, and line-of-business owners.
Inside:
How to read what an AI agent actually costs, in three simple forces.
A clear value test: is each successful outcome worth several times what it costs to produce.
How much autonomy to allow, set by the stakes rather than the hype.
Six worked examples from real functions, including one that does not clear the bar, because not every agent should ship.
The CPSO Ladder: a five-rung climb from watching the bill to running the enterprise on outcomes.
Read it in a sitting, and run the numbers on your own workflow the same afternoon. It is the executive on-ramp to the deeper practitioner handbook.
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