JPMorgan Chase, Accenture and others are teaming up on a new venture to standardize how AI token use is measured

Good morning. Many companies are working to tie token usage to actual business value rather than raw consumption—a challenge CFOs are already grappling with. A new group of experts plans to offer solutions.

The Linux Foundation’s Tokenomics Foundation—focused on standardizing how companies measure and manage AI token costs and connect it to business value—officially launches today, backed by 29 initial members. Founding supporters at the time of launch include companies such as Accenture, Booking.com, BNY, Flexera, IBM, JPMorgan Chase, KPMG, Oracle, SAP, and ServiceNow.

That roster reflects the foundation’s goal of uniting “token users and suppliers”—companies burning through tokens and the model providers and cloud platforms selling access to them—under one vendor-neutral roof.

To learn more, I asked J.R. Storment, executive director of the Tokenomics Foundation, a few questions:

CFO Daily: How should a CFO who has never budgeted for token consumption before start building that competency?

Storment: A CFO should collaborate with their teams to build visibility into consumption by model, workload, team, and project. The goal is to guide budgets toward outcomes rather than flat limits: a flat limit tells you nothing about whether the spend earned anything, while an AI budget tied to value survives a rising bill.

CFOs should partner with the CTO, CIO, and CAIO on what AI activity the business runs today, what is planned, and what each is expected to produce. The CFO does not need the deep AI vocabulary, they need a counterpart who has it and a forward view rather than retroactive.

Credit pricing, seat licenses, and bundled “unlimited AI” plans sever usage from cost, and you cannot allocate costs you cannot measure to understand value. Managing how contracts expose token-level telemetry takes no new literacy, but gains you more visibility into AI value.

CFO Daily: What specific gap in the market made the Linux Foundation decide that a standalone Tokenomics Foundation was needed, rather than folding this work entirely into the existing FinOps Foundation?

Storment: The Tokenomics Foundation arrives at a defining moment for the global technology economy when every company in the world is struggling to quantify the value of AI. While per-token........

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