Contract TCO for Enterprise AI

CIOs are under pressure to deliver AI at scale: fast, safely, and with a credible value narrative. The challenge is that AI rarely shows up as a single line item. It behaves like an operating environment across data, cloud, governance, MLOps, security, and integration. My Cost of AI service helps you quantify and manage the true TCO of your AI ecosystem over time. It is designed for CIOs (and their direct reports) who want more transparency on cost drivers, less vendor sprawl, and better steering decisions across IT, Procurement, and the Business. Next to this, I support your Cybersecurity and Compliance teams to assess contracts and AI use cases against the most recent EU regulations.

What I cover

Ecosystem map of your AI platform

Dependencies across data, cloud, tooling, and teams.

Key hidden cost drivers

Data readiness, model lifecycle, MLOps run cost, security/compliance.

Infrastructure volatility

Compute/storage scaling patterns, usage monitoring, FinOps hooks.

Vendor landscape view

Overlaps, sprawl, integration debt, commercial levers.

Governance that enables safe speed

Roles, decision rights, and controls that don’t block delivery.

Alignment with regulations

Data Protection, NIS2, DORA and EU AI Act

What you get

Ecosystem mapping

A map of your AI ecosystem, translated as a separate Procurement Category.

Clear view

A clear, CIO-level view of AI TCO (baseline + the drivers that will move it).

Action list

A prioritized action list to reduce waste and complexity (without slowing down the roadmap).

Recommendations

Concrete recommendations to align value streams, governance, and vendor decisions.

Measuring approach

A lightweight approach to keep measuring AI platform TCO continuously (not just during budgeting).

Next step

If you want clarity on the real cost of your AI platform—and where hidden risks and inefficiencies sit—let’s start with a short call to scope the work

Book your Vendor Value Scan now

Book a Vendor Value Scan and discover where cost, risk and optimization opportunities exist within your IT supplier ecosystem.

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