Whitepaper
The Cost of Asking
Why enterprise AI bills keep rising, and how knowledge fragmentation changes the arithmetic
Token prices fell by two thirds in a year. Budgets rose sixfold in two. This paper sets out why, what it means for the next five years, and how changing the unit of knowledge attacks the volume side of every AI bill at once. Sourced throughout, with the measured evidence and the honest limits.
What is inside
Six sections, sourced throughout
- The three bills of enterprise AI and the physical ceiling behind them
- Why unstructured data read whole is the structural cause
- The measured evidence on tokens and storage, and what the claims do not cover
- Where Analect sits against compression, RAG and gateways
- A five-year view of spend, with and without changing the unit
- How to prove the numbers on your own estate
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