--- title: How to manage AI investments in the agentic era | daily.dev description: Enterprise leaders need to shift from measuring token costs to measuring useful work per dollar as AI moves into agentic workflows. Five practical steps are... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-manage-ai-investments-in-the-agentic-era-o7vy4uomc twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How to manage AI investments in the agentic era | daily.dev og:description: Enterprise leaders need to shift from measuring token costs to measuring useful work per dollar as AI moves into agentic workflows. Five practical steps are... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-manage-ai-investments-in-the-agentic-era-o7vy4uomc og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/o7vY4UoMc.png og:image:alt: How to manage AI investments in the agentic era og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How to manage AI investments in the agentic era **[OpenAI](https://daily.dev/sources/openai)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Enterprise leaders need to shift from measuring token costs to measuring useful work per dollar as AI moves into agentic workflows. Five practical steps are outlined: gaining visibility into AI usage across teams and models, evaluating models on full cost-per-accepted-outcome rather than token price alone, treating governance as the operating layer that determines what AI work can scale, managing AI investments as a portfolio with funding matched to workflow maturity, and aligning commercial structures (Guaranteed Capacity, Scale Tier, Batch API, Prompt Caching) to production usage patterns. OpenAI's ChatGPT Work admin controls, spend limits, and deployment engineering services are positioned as tools to support this approach. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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