The Economics of Agent Optimization: From pilots to measurable returns

This blog post is the first of a four-part series called The Economics of Agent Optimization which shares the strategies, capabilities, and proof points to help you optimize agent costs and run AI as a managed investment system on Microsoft Foundry.

The AI conversation in most enterprises has moved from the whiteboard to the budget review. Two years ago, the question was whether AI could work. The question leaders are asking now is sharper and less comfortable: is it paying for itself?

For the teams now in production—including more than 100,000 organizations building on Microsoft Foundry that question has become urgent. Tokens have become the new unit of technology spend, and financial discipline (not model choice) is what decides whether a promising pilot ever scales. The money is already moving in: in a Microsoft-commissioned IDC studyof more than 4,000 business leaders, 71% said they plan to increase AI budgets,...

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