Podcast

The cost of intelligence: AI FinOps and the future of AI spending

JUL 31, 2026

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AI costs can change fast, especially when tokens, premium models, and agentic workflows enter the picture. In this episode, Pinja Kujala and Henri Terho discuss AI FinOps, why AI spending is harder to predict than cloud costs, and how organizations can build visibility, governance, and smarter cost controls around AI usage.

Speakers

Pinja Kujala

Team Lead | Advisory + Atlassian

Henri Terho

Principal AI Consultant

Henri works with clients navigating the gap between AI pilots and production-grade adoption. He focuses on operating model design — the changes that turn individual productivity gains into real delivery improvements across the whole organization. He brings technical depth and organizational fluency in equal measure.

  • AI
  • DevOps
  • Cloud
  • Platform engineering