Unit economics forAI agents
in production
Runrate reconciles true AI agent costs, allocates them to outcomes, forecasts spend, and enforces budgets — so teams can scale automation without margin surprises.
| Outcome | Vol | Avg $ | WoW |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12.8k | $0.31 | +0.03 | |
| 4.2k | $1.84 | +0.05 | |
| 2.9k | $0.62 | 0.05 | |
| 8.5k | $0.09 | — |
Why now
AI agents in production create a new class of operational problem.
Teams are shipping automations at velocity and are left with opaque cloud bills, no cost-per-outcome visibility, and zero leverage to forecast or control what comes next.
The problem
The operational visibility gap compounds with every agentic workflow you ship.
The moment agents go to production, the unit economics problem begins. And it compounds with every new workflow you ship.
No cost truth
You get a cloud bill. You don't get cost-per-ticket, cost-per-lead, or cost-per-claim. You can't tell if your agent ROI is positive or negative.
Forecasting is guesswork
Agent spend is variable by design — it scales with business volume. Without unit economics, every forecast is a ceiling estimate with no floor.
Audit and controls lag
When a workflow goes off-budget by $40K, nobody knows until the invoice arrives. There is no approval chain, no alert, no immutable record.
RunrateHow it works
Four steps from opaque to owned.
Runrate connects every agent run to the work item it processed, the cost it incurred, the quality it produced, and the policy it must follow.
Runrate sits passively in your agent infrastructure — no code changes required for standard frameworks. Every LLM call, tool use, and retry is captured with its full cost vector before being normalized to a canonical event format.
Teams
Built for every team that owns AI operations.
Runrate gives the same control over digital labor that ERP gave over headcount.
Version 2.3 improved eval pass rate by 1.8pp while reducing cost per successful outcome 3.1%. Gains are strongest in billing and password-reset flows; claims intake still regressed after the prompt change. Expand rollout in Tier 2 queues and hold claims until the retrieval fix ships.
Why Runrate
Nothing else is built for this.
Traditional FinOps tools track cloud infra. Observability tools track errors. Runrate tracks financial outcomes.
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