Brief 03

PRESS

The AI Cost Control Playbook

EST. 2026

Read time~15 minutes

Target AudienceCTOs, CISOs, VPs of Operations, Chief Compliance Officers

PublishedJun 2026

A Golonex Press Brief

The AI Cost Control Playbook

Where Brief 01 showed how agents save money, this playbook shows how to design the control plane to prevent runaway AI API spending.

Table of Contents

01Part 1 — The half-billion-dollar lessonOpen

02Part 2 — Why your SaaS brain is the bug🔑 Locked

03Part 3 — The seven levers that actually move the bill🔑 Locked

04Part 4 — The governance layer (the part nobody else is writing)🔑 Locked

05Part 5 — The AI cost maturity model🔑 Locked

06Appendix — The 10-point AI Cost Control checklist🔑 Locked

07References & sources🔑 Locked