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Is AI Actually Making Us Money?
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Here is What You'll Learn
Why AI quietly breaks your gross margin, even when the business looks healthy.
Inference is a variable cost that scales with every interaction, so flat subscription pricing on usage-based cost erodes margin on your heaviest users before you ever see it.
How to make your chart of accounts AI-ready in three moves.
Classify with a defensible COGS-vs-OpEx rule, tag at the source across five dimensions, and structure one AI cost center that rolls up to AI-Adjusted Gross Profit.
Why the market is repricing under you, and what that means for your books.
Per-seat is giving way to usage and outcome pricing fast (Zendesk per resolution, Intercom Fin at $0.99, GitHub metering on top of seats), and every one of those bills needs a chart of accounts that can trace it.
How to compute and read the metric your board actually wants.
The Inference Economics Ratio (AI revenue divided by inference cost) becomes computable once the plumbing works, and the trend tells you whether your AI spend is still earning its keep.
How to find your AI spend when it's scattered across COGS and OpEx.
A one-afternoon baseline (pull 30 days, tag every line as customer-facing, employee-facing, or non-AI, then roll it up) turns AI cost from a guess into a number.
Many thanks to Maxio.com for sponsoring this webinar.
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About Ben Murray, The SaaS CFO
Ben is a corporate finance executive with over twenty-five years of public and private company experience in finance and operations in the software and airline industries. Throughout his roles, he has demonstrated the ability to link the key drivers between finance and operations to drive corporate transparency, margin improvement, and real-time fact-based decision-making.
Ben has been a SaaS CFO for the past nine years and helps SaaS founders and investors with strategic finance. He writes about all things SaaS finance and metrics at TheSaaSCFO.com and TheSaaSAcademy.com. He has an MBA from the University of Iowa and holds an active CPA license.
