AI Economics

Turn AI spend into measurable business value

See every dollar. Control every investment.

Yarken connects AI Usage, Spend and Ownership to Business Value. One financial model, so every AI dollar can be allocated, governed, and tied to a business outcome.

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Total AI costToken, licences, labor and cloud costs
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Clear ownershipVendors, apps, initiatives, teams and services
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AI unit economicsCost per request, seat, workload, and outcome
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Governed actionsForecast, allocate, explain, and optimize

AI capitalization

Traceable AI capital decisions

AI development costs sit across cloud services, model APIs, software, internal labor, contractors, data, and specialist vendors. Yarken brings those costs into one governed model and connects them to the products, initiatives, owners, and development stages that created them.

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Identify the full cost base

Bring together GL, cloud, contracts, invoices, labor, project, and usage data.

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Connect cost to accountable work

Allocate spend to products, initiatives, teams, applications, and business units.

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Create decision-ready evidence

Maintain a consistent financial record that supports capitalization assessment, governance, forecasting, and audit preparation.

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Compute

Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, Vertex AI, GPUs, and specialist infrastructure.

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Tokens

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Cohere, and other model providers.

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Licenses

Copilot, Agentforce, Now Assist, Cursor, and AI-enabled SaaS.

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Labor data

Internal teams, contractors, labeling, training, and operations.

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Vendors

Consulting, existing SaaS licences, AI data licences and specialist AI tools.

The problem

Tokenomics and cloud bills are only the start

Cloud shows one slice. The full cost of AI now sits across five disconnected categories, owned by different teams and measured in different ways.

Cloud bills show one. Yarken brings all five together.

Governed AI Economics

One connected model for usage, spend, and value

Bring fragmented AI Economics into one governed system to understand AI Spend versus Business Value.

AI Cost

Build a fully loaded view across compute, tokens, licenses, contracts, labor, and data.

Cloud costsGLInvoicesContracts

AI Usage

Understand adoption and consumption across models, workloads, teams, seats, calls, and GPU hours.

TokensCallsGPU hoursSeats

Business Value

Connect AI investment to productivity, revenue, efficiency, quality, and business outcomes.

ProductivityRevenueROIOutcomes

Decision-ready AI unit economics

AI Total Cost
$4.14M
↑ 12.8%vs last month
Shadow AI Cost
$342K
↑ 7.1%vs last month
Capitalization Rate
26%
↑ 4 ptsvs last month
Qualifying Cap Amount
$1.08M
↑ 18.3%vs last month
Variable AI Spend
$2.76M
↑ 21.4%vs prior year
End of Year Projected
$49.7M
↑ 16.2%vs prior year

How it works

From scattered inputs to Governed AI Economics

Bring fragmented AI Economics into one governed system to understand AI Spend versus Business Value

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Connect

Bring together cloud cost, APIs, SaaS, contracts, GL, labor, invoices, and usage data.

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Model

Normalize spend into a governed TBM and FinOps-aligned model.

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Allocate

Assign cost to apps, services, teams, initiatives, and business units.

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Control

Track budget forecasts, variances, showback, cross-charges and unit economics.

The architecture for AI Economics. Three inputs — AI cost, AI usage, and Business Value — feed one governed model that outputs AI unit economics: cost per 1K tokens, per request, per active seat, per outcome, and value per dollar.
From disconnected AI spend to governed financial clarity. Ingest, normalize, allocate, explain, act

Platform capabilities

Six capabilities. One system

Move from fragmented cost visibility to governed AI economics across leadership, finance, engineering, and FinOps teams.

Adoption + governance

See ownership, classification, concentration, production status, and activity outside approved channels.

AI-powered allocation

Use explainable suggestions and governed rules to map fragmented spend to accountable owners and outcomes.

Squad-level intelligence

Understand cost by squad, member, model, environment, technology tower, and use case.

Agentic automation

Build governed specialist agents and playbooks that assist execution while keeping people in control.

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Ask questions in natural language and receive a structured observation, root cause, and recommendation.

Executive overview

Track AI spend against budget, project year-end run rate, and connect investment to realized business value.

Governance outcomes

The AI Economics questions facing every organization

Yarken connects spend to ownership, ownership to business context, and business context to action.

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What are we spending on AI?

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Who owns it, and where?

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What value is it creating?

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What should we do next?

Trusted by enterprises. Built for Finance

Yarken is live with enterprise technology teams governing complex spend across cloud, SaaS, infrastructure, labor, applications, and AI.

Enterprise-grade trust

SOC 2 compliant, FinOps Certified, aligned with the TBM Council, a member of Tokenomics Foundation, and recognized by Gartner as an established ITFM vendor.

SOC 2
FinOps Foundation
TBM Council
Gartner
Tokenomics Foundation

One platform. Proven foundation

Yarken combines cost intelligence, planning, contracts, application TCO, showback, chargeback, FinOps, and AI Economics in one governed platform.

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Get clarity on your AI spend

If AI costs are growing faster than your ability to explain them, Yarken can help. We connect AI usage, spend, ownership, and value in one governed financial model.

Understand fully loaded AI cost across cloud, tokens, licenses, labor, and vendors.
Assign spend to accountable teams, initiatives, applications, and business units.
Build the financial context needed to govern investment and prove value.

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