FinOps Daily Brief

**The FinOps Daily Brief: Inside the Cost of Running Agents** Intuit's accounting agent went live to ten million small businesses last year, and the cost curve looked like a wall. That's what AI agent cost looks like in production right now, and the practitioners closest to the problem are still figuring out the levers. J.R. sat in on three FinOpsX rehearsals last week from speakers wrestling with...

"We are trying to govern a stream with a snapshot." That's a practitioner story heard in a FinOpsX rehearsal last week, and it's the line that frames this episode. Over the past two weeks the team has been sitting in on rehearsals back-to-back. Five practitioners. Five completely different topics. One pattern emerging underneath all of them. AI is now in everything, even the talks that aren't oste...

"Our job as a FinOps organization is to maximize the value of the token transformation. Jensen called it the token factory effectiveness, and that's what we all need to run." That's Frederik Pohl, head of FinOps and Data Solutions at SAP, articulating the new job of every FinOps team in this AI-defined era. This episode is a deep dive into the framework Frederik and his colleague Maida Nazifi have...

Two years ago, 31% of FinOps practices managed AI spend. Today, that number is 98%. In this episode, J.R. Storment recaps the April 2026 FinOps Foundation Virtual Summit and the headline that should be on every practitioner's mind: token economics has officially arrived. SAP's Frederik Pohl reframed the job entirely with what Jensen Huang calls "token factory effectiveness," and that shift from co...

Sonali will be keynoting  FinOps X in San Diego , June 8-11 2026. Attend to see her talk live. Key Insight:  Sonali Niswander, SVP AI, Cloud and Data Platforms of the Global Technology Office at MetLife, offers a window into how the FinOps mandate is shifting at the world’s largest regulated enterprises. Her story spans infrastructure roots in early e-commerce, through leadership at some of the co...