Episode Details

Rippling’s new AI Spend Console is here to rein in runaway AI costs—tracking per-employee, team, and role spending to see if it’s boosting productivity or just generating AI fluff. After discovering they were on track to spend 40% of their R&D budget on AI tokens—with 80% month-over-month growth—their CFO shocked execs, sparking a scramble to fix the chaos. Instead of banning AI, Rippling built an AI gateway that routes prompts to the cheapest effective model and champions “AI captains” to guide usage. They’re now linking AI adoption to real productivity gains—or risk losing widespread access.

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