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The AI Bill Is Eating Everything Else
From the AI ROI Series, recorded 14 July 2026. IBM lost about $55 billion in market value in a single session, the stock fell more […]
Gartner: Only 28% of AI Projects Deliver ROI. Here’s Why the Rest Don’t.
Gartner’s latest research puts a hard number on the AI ROI gap — and a companion study shows layoffs aren’t proof of value. The fix isn’t another pilot; it’s measurement.
The CFO Just Walked Into the Coding Room
Cursor built a CFO council this week, and quietly proved a thesis Olakai has been on for months. The quick version of the week first: […]
Your Engineering Team Uses 3+ AI Coding Tools. What You’re Missing.
No single AI coding tool dominates anymore — engineering teams now run three, four, or five at once. Here’s why that fragmentation, not any one vendor’s pricing, is the real budget and governance risk.
Companies Are Cutting Jobs to Pay for AI. Can They Prove It’s Working?
The jobs apocalypse arrived, and it is being funded by payroll. If a company is trading people for an AI bet, the bar to prove […]
How to Be a Smarter Token Manager: Model Routing, Explained
Two weeks of writing about AI token economics kept leading to the same corner: you cannot control what the vendors charge, only how wisely you […]
Ask Kai: Inside Olakai’s Conversational Control Plane
Every vendor in enterprise AI analytics now claims some version of “ask questions in plain English.” Most of what that actually means, once you look […]
3 Token Cost Metrics Every CFO Should Be Watching
In May 2026, Uber’s COO Andrew Macdonald said something that should make every CFO uncomfortable. Uber had burned through its entire 2026 AI budget in […]
Power, Casual, New, Idle: How Olakai’s Adoption Cohorts Find Your Wasted AI Licenses
A company buys 200 seats of Claude Code or Cursor — a familiar story in the era of AI coding tool sprawl. Six months later, […]
Inside AI Spend Governance: Budgets and the Alerts That Fire Before You Blow Through Them
A CFO rarely discovers an AI spend problem from a dashboard. They discover it from an invoice, weeks after the spending already happened, with no […]
AI’s $725B Capex Reckoning: Prove ROI or Get Cut
One company spent $500 million on AI in a single month. Not across a year, not spread over a sprawling transformation program, but in one […]
Shadow AI Statistics 2026: The Governance Crisis Is Already Here
Last year, one in five organizations was breached because of shadow AI. The average tab came to $4.63 million, roughly $670,000 more than a conventional […]