AI labor
AI labor is economically useful work performed by an AI agent or automated model workflow. Its cost includes the models, tools, compute, data, and services consumed to produce that work.
Treating AI as labor makes cost-per-outcome, ownership, budgeting, and comparison with human or outsourced work possible.
Related terms
- Agent spend attribution
- Agent FinOps vs. TokenOps
- Settlement vs. billing vs. attribution
- System of record for AI labor
- Agent FinOps
- Spend under management
- Attribution readiness
- Cost per outcome
- AI spend assessment
- Unattributed spend
- Agent inventory
- Chargeback in an AI context
- Zero-Access assessment
- FOCUS
- BilledCost
- EffectiveCost
- ChargeCategory
- ChargePeriod
- ServiceCategory
- Provider, Publisher, ServiceProvider, and HostProvider
- Contract Commitment dataset
- Invoice Detail dataset
- Virtual currency and token columns
- Journal entry
- Suspense account
- Accrual
- Chargeback vs. showback
- Subledger
- Tie-out and reconciliation
- Trial balance
- Dimensions and worktags
- OASA specification
- The Missing Ledger