Speaking & podcasts
As AI companies move toward public markets, their economics stop being a private matter — and so do their customers’. Token spend is turning from an engineering curiosity into an audited line item that boards, auditors and journalists ask about. Most organisations cannot answer. I build the tool that does, and I talk about why the gap exists.
Email hello@tokenok.io with the event or show, date, audience and format. Remote anywhere; in person around Sydney.
Most organisations can produce a vendor invoice and nothing else — not cost per team, per project, or per outcome. Why the measurement gap exists, what it hides, and what it takes to close it without instrumenting every application.
Keynote · 20–40 min
Advertisers stopped accepting publisher-reported impressions, and that produced IAB standards, MRC accreditation and third-party verification. AI spend is in the pre-verification era right now: the party recommending the optimisation is the party reporting the saving. What the adtech decade predicts about this one.
Keynote · panel · podcast
Flat-fee plans are the largest unmeasured pool in AI. Counting plan usage as dollars saved is wrong; ignoring it is worse. How to express plan usage as value delivered without inventing money, and why almost every tool in the category skips this entirely.
Panel · podcast · workshop
Routing work to the cheapest model that actually clears the bar, escalating when an answer comes back weak, and measuring the result. Live, across 37 models and 11 providers — including how a reasoning dial changes the economics, because thinking bills as output.
Technical talk · demo
Runaway automated spend is a governance failure, not a bug. What the widely-reported incidents have in common, why budgets alone don't catch them, and what a kill-switch has to see to work.
Keynote · panel
Building so that customer data never leaves their machine — what it costs you in features, what it buys you in sales cycles, and why 'we don't want your traffic' is the shortest answer to a security questionnaire.
Technical talk · podcast
Every public listing in this sector forces disclosure of unit economics, and every disclosure makes the same question louder for everyone buying AI: what are we actually spending, and what are we getting for it. The honest answer in most rooms is that nobody knows — the invoice is the only artefact. That is a good topic for an audience, because it is a problem they recognise in themselves rather than a product pitch.
Programming an event or booking a show?
Tell me the audience and I’ll tell you honestly whether I’m the right person for it.
hello@tokenok.io