Your OpenAI Bill at 10x Usage Will Be Larger Than Your Engineering Team. Here Is the Math.
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Dharmesh Singh
Co-Founder & CEO, Aevon.ai · March 2026
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 5–30× more tokens per task.
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