Why does metering matter if we are only running a pilot?

Pilots are meant to answer whether something should be expanded, and expansion decisions turn on cost per unit of work, which workflows consume most, and how much consumption is redundant. A pilot that reports only that people liked the assistant has not produced the figures the business case needs.

Metering in Centralpoint is per execution and per skill from the outset, so a pilot yields attribution rather than a total — which rules cost most, which workflows dominate, what share of questions repeat. The governed cache makes that last figure actionable: repeated questions are served from the local index rather than re-entering the model, so the measured saving is real rather than projected.