What stops AI costs escalating as adoption grows?

Token pricing bills per request, so a provider's revenue follows how often you ask rather than how much you need to know. Those quantities diverge enormously — a few hundred genuinely distinct questions can generate hundreds of thousands of enquiries a year, every one billed as though novel, and a provider console will not show you the difference because the repetition is revenue.

Centralpoint recognizes repeated questions by intent rather than by text, so an enquiry already answered is recognized however it is phrased and in whichever language it arrives. The governed answer is served from the local index, the redundant charge is suppressed, and metering is buyer-side. The effect inverts the usual curve: cost per enquiry falls as adoption rises, because the marginal question is overwhelmingly one already answered.