Running AI on a Budget: 12 Tactics for Enterprise-Scale Efficiency

Dev.to AI
AI Research

At my company, PromptOwl, everyone coworks with AI for 90 to 100% of their work. Engineering, marketing, sales, leadership - AI is in every workflow, every day. Getting there took us just over a year, and taught us a lot about what that actually costs. Running AI at that scale boils down to two optimization problems: money and time. Money shows up on the monthly invoice, and if you are not paying attention it will floor you in costs. AI is expensive to run blindly.