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The Axionic AI Budget Model
Seat licenses are under 20% of a realistic AI budget. This workbook shows where the rest goes and lets you put in your own numbers.
What is inside:
- An inputs sheet: headcount, seat price, user mix, usage per tier, unattended workflows, governance tooling, contingency
- A budget sheet that recalculates the annual total, cost per employee per month, and the share that is variable
- The assumptions and sources behind the default values, taken from the Deploying AI at Scale white paper
Budget sheet preview
| Line | Annual (USD) |
|---|---|
| Assistant seats | 120,000 |
| Assistant usage | 255,000 |
| Unattended workflows | 120,000 |
| Connector gateway and monitoring | 36,000 |
| Enablement and plugin curation | 75,000 |
| Contingency | 75,000 |
| Total (500-person firm) | 681,000 |