AI Cost Academy
Checklists and templates
Use diagnostic checklists and templates when you need a concrete answer now rather than a long read.
Course goal
Diagnose or improve one part of the cost workflow immediately.
Built for all academy readers. Work through the modules in order if you want the full picture, or jump directly to the lesson that matches the job in front of you right now.
AI cost audit checklist
Run a fast health check across tracking, monitoring, attribution, and optimization hygiene.
Why your OpenAI bill is high checklist
Run an incident-style triage for prompt size, retries, background jobs, embeddings, and model tier changes.
Why your OpenAI bill is so high and what to do about it
Work through the most common causes of sudden OpenAI spend growth and the fixes teams apply first.
Cloud and AI budget health check
Score your budget process and identify the next 30 days of improvements.
Weekly AI and cloud cost review template
Use a repeatable review template when you need a practical operating document, not a conceptual guide.