AI Costs Soar 230%; COO Uses Three Questions Instead of Hard Budgets

Facing a 230% surge in OpenAI credit card usage, Every's COO Arielle Shipper avoided rigid token budgets and instead managed AI costs with a three-question approach, offering a new playbook for the era of expensive new models.

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