Rippling, R&D 예산의 40%를 AI 토큰에 쓰다 게이트 구축
Rippling은 직원의 토큰 사용량과 출력 품질을 추적하는 도구를 출시해, 한때 전체 R&D 인건비 예산의 40%까지 치솟았던 통제 불능의 AI 비용을 줄였습니다.
rippling unveiled ai spend console, a tool designed to correlate ai token usage with employee productivity, following a discovery that its inference costs were growing 80% month-over-month. the company found it was spending as much on ai tokens as it paid 40% of its r&D staff, with one engineer spending $50,000 monthly. the tool attributes 'leaderboards' and features a gateway to route prompts to cost-effective models like glm 5.2 instead of expensive frontier models. by analyzing usage and enforcing spend caps, rippling successfully reduced its token expenditure without banning ai tools.