Your OpenAI Bill at 10x Usage Will Be Larger Than Your Engineering Team. Here Is the Math.
Most mid-market SaaS companies are one growth curve away from an AI infrastructure crisis. IDC: inference is now 85% of enterprise AI compute spend. Gartner (March 2026): enterprise bills will still rise even as token costs fall, because agentic AI consumes 5–30x more tokens per task. Three structural reasons your inference cost is broken — and what an 8-week fix looks like.