The licence ledger
IllustrativeThe commercial shape of an AI SKU, as a buyer reads it
- Basis of charge
- Per call, metered on usage and invoiced against the cloud commitment you already hold. Adoption is the meter, not value.
- Discount condition
- Conditional on the term of the underlying cloud and licence commitment, not on the AI layer standing on its own merits.
- Deployment
- Vendor cloud. The runtime, the grounding index and the audit record all sit inside the estate.
- On exit
- Agent configuration, prompts and integration wiring sit inside the vendor's platform — not in an asset you hold.
Shape only — the direction of travel, not a quantity. Your own curve comes from your own renewal schedule and your own call volume.