355: Managing costs and ROl of agentic Al initiatives (With John D'Emic)

About this episode

Dave speaks with John D'Emic about managing costs and ROI of agentic AI initiatives.

In this episode, Dave speaks with John D'Emic, cofounder and CTO at Revenium, about the challenges organizations face in managing costs and ROI of agentic AI initiatives. John explains that the transition from pre-production to production often reveals gaps in economic visibility, leading to "agent debt" due to unanticipated costs from API calls and tool usage.

People in this episode

Host: Dave

Guest: John D'Emic

Topics covered

• cost management
• ROI
• agentic AI
• economic visibility
• API costs

Keywords

• agentic AI
• cost management
• ROI
• API calls
• tool usage
• economic visibility
• agent debt

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Revenium

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