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Why Agent Governance Platforms Don't Answer the Cost Question
Microsoft Agent 365, Okta, Cisco, and peers are building important agent identity, access, and security controls. That work is necessary. It is not FinOps. Knowing an agent is allowed to run does not tell you what it cost or whether the outcome beat a human baseline.
Different questions
Governance platforms ask: who, what policy, what risk. Agent FinOps asks: how much, who pays, what return. Treating them as substitutes leaves finance blind.
Position Meridian as complementary — the FinOps system of record beside your control plane. Related: AI Cost Governance for Enterprise Teams.
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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.