The money and career side: costing AI-in-the-loop workflows, winning budget, and understanding how these tools reshape the analyst ladder.
Work out what an AI model actually costs per month from your token usage, and compare the major models side by side.
Compare a flat monthly chat subscription against the equivalent API usage and find the break-even point where one overtakes the other.
Token prices are the smallest line item. Here is a cost model that accounts for retries, context bloat, human review, and the warehouse bill underneath it.
Finance is not against AI. They are against unmeasured spend. Here is how to frame an analytics AI budget in terms they will approve.
The rungs are not disappearing, but the work on each one is changing. Here is what compounds in value and what is quietly commoditizing.