With AI, front-line employees should 'fundraise' from the CFO for token budgets
curious_vii · x · 2026-11-02
A management take on how AI reshapes organizational capital allocation: in traditional companies, opportunities spotted five layers down rarely get acted on by the person who found them — with AI, that person can execute directly.
The author proposes a novel framing: such employees should be able to 'fundraise' from the CFO — "you pay me $150K a year; I also need $1M in tokens to create this outcome very quickly." Token budgets become a new form of capital allocated straight to front-line staff.
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