The hidden costs of scaling AI and how to get ahead of them
Your AI spend is rising. Most of it’s invisible.

As AI instruments unfold throughout your groups, the costs and dangers aren’t displaying up the place you’d count on. They’re buried wherein fashions your groups default to, which instruments your brokers are connecting to, and which workflows are quietly operating greater than they need to.
By the time most IT and safety leaders spot the issue, the invoice has already grown.
Join our dwell session with Barndoor AI as they stroll by real-world examples of the place AI costs and entry dangers cover, and the sensible approaches main groups are utilizing to discover and repair them.
What you will stroll away with
Visibility into the place your AI costs are literally hiding
See how defaulting to costly fashions and over-provisioned agent entry drives up spend in methods your group cannot presently see.
A clearer image of the place MCP software entry creates threat
Learn from actual eventualities the place broad agent entry created safety publicity that customary opinions by no means caught.
A means to establish which workflows are costing greater than they need to
Surface the agent behaviours and software calls burning essentially the most sources earlier than they compound.
A framework for the capabilities your org really wants
Understand what it takes to handle mannequin entry, software permissions, and price visibility at scale throughout technical and non-technical groups alike.
Why attend?
If you are liable for AI infrastructure, safety, or platform technique at a mid-to-large organisation, that is for you.
You’ll depart with:
- A transparent view of which mannequin selections and agent configurations are probably driving pointless spend
- The proper questions to ask about your present MCP software connections and the place they could be creating publicity you are not seeing
- A sensible framework for evaluating the tech stack you want to govern AI entry and costs going ahead
- An strategy to making use of constant insurance policies throughout technical and non-technical groups, with out constructing separate programs or including overhead
Your speaker
Neil Mansilla
VP of Platform, Barndoor AI
Neil leads platform technique at Barndoor AI. Previously, he led Developer Experience at Atlassian, supporting the worldwide ecosystem of builders and companions constructing on the platform. Before that, he labored as a software program engineer throughout e-commerce, actual property, and healthcare.
