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What Does Intelligence Cost?
Every role in our organisations is about to carry two costs. One we have always known: the person. The other is just emerging: the intelligence working alongside them.
Today AI costs may be in functional budgets, a software line item like any other. But something creeps in quietly when intelligence becomes part of how every role gets work done. Is it a software? An utility? An Agent?
The answer changes how you budget it, govern it, and value it.
Electricity followed this path. So did Cloud. Intelligence is sprinting, with a twist: consumption varies wildly by person, by task, by curiosity, and by outcome.
I have been working through this with real data. The answers are less obvious than I expected.
Would intelligence have its own line on your cost sheet?
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Anand Laxshmivarahan R
July 12, 2026
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