Metered AI

Unmetered AI is a cost centre with no steering. The provider invoice reports a total; nothing connects it to a workflow, a team, a prompt change or a pattern of repetition, so the organization can neither forecast nor intervene. Metering converts the total into a ledger, and the first findings are usually the same: one workflow dominates consumption, one prompt edit multiplied token use, and a substantial share of spend is answering questions already answered. Each is actionable only once visible.

Consumption in Centralpoint is metered against each execution and each skill, with SkillTokenBudget bounding what any single execution may spend before it runs. Token/Fee Regulation suppresses redundant charges from repeat requests, and consumption across providers can be paid through Oxcyon on a single consolidated invoice below published rates — so metering serves accounting, control and purchasing at once.