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AI Budgeting for Finance: Last Year vs. Now In this video, Emily Allen, Director, Finance & Accounting at CloudZero, explains how AI planning changed in a single year. Instead of starting from a vendor commit or the current run rate, she’s treating AI spend as its own category and analyzing it bottom-up. That opens a new question for finance: “What does good look like?” With a year of data, finance teams can start benchmarking AI spend over time and check whether what they approved actually paid off.

In this video, Brady Lenahan, VP of Sales at CloudZero, shares what he’s hearing from customers when the cap hits before the month ends: employees who’ve built their workflows around AI stop working productively and wait for next month. Some go golfing, some clean the garage. Either way, finance loses both the productivity and the visibility. There’s a better option than capping AI spend you can’t see.

In this video, Emily Allen, Director, Finance & Accounting at CloudZero, explains why AI capitalization is still unclear for most finance teams, and how CloudZero gives them a repeatable approach. As AI writes more of the code, finance needs to know which AI spend went to qualifying development work and which should be expensed. CloudZero records which project each AI coding session served, what kind of work it was, and what it cost, so finance has the evidence behind every decision.

Your engineers are writing more code than ever with AI, but your team isn't shipping more product. The code waits for review, agents run on personal laptops and accounts, and nobody can say what any of it costs. In this overview, we show what Upsun Dispatch is: where your team and its agents ship together, with every decision recorded and every dollar tracked. We get into.

In Part 1 of this conversation, three early-career professionals at Digitate — Ryan Bascos, Renad Morrar, and Ritu Bhalodia — join The Intelligent Enterprise to share what it actually feels like to start a career in the age of AI: the tools they rely on, the concerns they carry, and what their generation sees that others might be missing.