Buyer-Side Metering

A meter operated by the party being paid reports what it is designed to report. Provider consoles show tokens consumed; none of them show how much of that consumption answered a question already answered, because the redundancy is revenue. Buyer-side metering asks different questions: how many distinct questions did we actually have, how many times did we pay for each, which workflows generate repetition, and what proportion of spend was avoidable. These are not adversarial questions so much as ordinary procurement instrumentation, of the sort any organization applies to every other metered utility.

Centralpoint meters per execution and per skill inside the organization's own environment, with attribution to requester and workflow. Because the record of what was asked, what was assembled and what it cost lives on the buyer's side, the redundancy figure is the organization's own measurement rather than a supplier disclosure — which is the only arrangement under which it would ever be produced.