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AI Agent Budgets, Alerts, and Spend Policies
Budgets without enforcement paths are suggestions. Agent FinOps needs thresholds that alert early and route stop-or-throttle actions through your existing controls — by team, workflow, or agent — without requiring engineers to redeploy.
Design the control loop
Set budgets from showback data. Alert on trajectory, not only hard caps. Route policy actions through the customer's own controls when owners are defined and exceptions are documented. Then review weekly. Meridian detects and alerts; your controls act.
Pair with spend under management and chargeback.
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Brian Diamond
Brian Diamond is a fractional Chief AI Officer and founder of Onaro. He has spent 30 years running infrastructure operations and founded LANStatus, a Connecticut managed services provider and Microsoft partner, in 2001. He holds a Chief AI Officer certification and writes the CAIO Brief on AI leadership for finance and operations.