Hidden Costs of AI Agent Implementation
Approver time, connector maintenance, eval debt, SSO projects, and model upgrades — budget lines vendors omit.
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Hidden costs: human review hours, SSO/legal review, connector breakage, eval maintenance, inference spikes, and training churn when staff turnover.
Key points
- Budget approver FTE partial
- Plan legal review for DPAs
- Model price changes quarterly
Add 25–40% contingency on first-year TCO vs vendor quote.
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