How to calculate AI customer contribution margin
A practical method for matching AI supplier costs to customer contracts, calculating known contribution, and keeping unallocated usage visible.
Read the guide →Make AI economics a contract decision
Clear methods for teams that sell AI features and need to connect what customers pay to what delivery costs. Each guide shows the calculation, the evidence it requires, and what to do when the evidence is incomplete.
How to price AI features without losing margin
Use usage allowances, observed unit cost, and upper-tail scenarios to pressure-test an AI feature price before signing a customer contract.
Read the guide →Allocate OpenAI and Anthropic costs to customers
A source-backed workflow for reconciling OpenAI and Anthropic organization costs with customer-level AI usage, without treating unknown spend as zero.
Read the guide →Work through your own numbers
Use the free calculator to find known contribution and the cost headroom before a target margin floor. Missing cost stays visible.
Open the AI margin calculator