Insights
The CFO's Guide to AI Spend Under Management
Spend under management means AI labor is metered, owned, budgeted, and attested — not merely invoiced. For CFOs, that is the difference between an AI strategy and an uncontrolled payroll of machines.
The questions that matter
What did agents cost last month? By business unit? Against which outcomes? Which budgets breached? What evidence would we show the board? Only 7% of executives can demonstrate AI ROI (KPMG 2026) — Agent FinOps closes that gap.
Operating cadence
Weekly anomaly review, monthly chargeback, quarterly ROI attestation. Pair with budgets and spend policies and What Is Agent FinOps?.
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Onaro Meridian is FinOps for agentic AI: the system of record that attributes, controls and books what AI agents spend.
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.