Where an organization sits on this curve predicts its next AI invoice better than any forecast spreadsheet.
Stage 0 — Ungoverned. Broad access, no caps, no monitoring, no policy. Cost is discovered when the invoice arrives. This is where the $500M company sat. Most enterprises piloting AI in 2024–2025 started here without realizing it.
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