When you plan your budget next year, you won’t plan around headcount anymore.

You’ll plan around the intelligence each team needs. Every team lead will get a budget, and they’ll decide the mix of human intelligence and artificial intelligence (AI) that gets them to the goal. A friend at a public company told me this is what they’ve already started doing.

We used to be reliant on humans for intelligence, but AI has advanced to the point where it can actually replace many human reasoning tasks. We’re moving away from human resources to the unit of the future: Intelligence per Dollar.

How we plan will totally change. What work needs doing, what work do we want our company to do, and how much are we willing to pay for it? That question is as old as business itself. What’s new is that, for the first time, we can actually answer it with real numbers. And importantly, measure and optimize.

Why Intelligence per Dollar, and Not Tokens

You’ve probably noticed the industry quietly backing away from the word “token.” Companies are swapping in “credits” and other repackaged units, and there’s a reason for it. Different models spend tokens differently, so a token here doesn’t mean a token there. It was never a unit you could compare across the board.

But tokens were always beside the point. The real question, the one every business has been circling forever, is simpler: what does it cost you to deliver the goods, services, and products you put in front of your customers? That’s the number that matters. Intelligence per Dollar is just the honest name for it in the age of AI.

The dream we could never reach with humans

Here’s what makes this moment interesting. In a way, this is the thing we always wanted from human resources and never got, because humans are just too dynamic to pin down.

The dream went like this: You’d measure the exact output of every........

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