AI Is Forcing Finance to Redefine KPIs

AI Budgeting for Finance: Last Year vs. Now

In this video, Emily Allen, Director, Finance & Accounting at CloudZero, explains how AI planning changed in a single year. Instead of starting from a vendor commit or the current run rate, she’s treating AI spend as its own category and analyzing it bottom-up. That opens a new question for finance: “What does good look like?” With a year of data, finance teams can start benchmarking AI spend over time and check whether what they approved actually paid off.

Ready to build your FY2027 AI budget the same way? See how CloudZero breaks down AI spend by project, feature, and team: https://www.cloudzero.com/demo/