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Metering & Cost of Work

Economic primitive

The platform should understand:

Cost of Work

rather than measuring only seats or model calls.

Cost dimensions

Human Time
AI Compute
Model Calls
Agent Execution
API Calls
MCP Calls
Workflow Runtime
Infrastructure
Storage
Communication
External Provider Cost
Retries

Work cost model

Work
→ Resource Consumption
→ Cost
→ Outcome
→ Business Value

Product economics

The commercial model may combine:

• platform fee;
• usage;
• connectors;
• workflow/execution;
• AI/agent consumption;
• services;
• enterprise governance.

Final prices must live in the approved pricing document, not architecture docs.

Principle

Meter the operational work the platform enables, while keeping technical usage measurable underneath.