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Pay-i

Pay-i

Software Development

Redmond, WA 1,245 followers

Transform GenAI Spend to Business Outcomes

About us

Transform GenAI Spend into Business Value Pay-i is the ROI-intelligence platform for GenAI. We translate the fast-moving cost signals of models and agent workflows into clear forecasts and KPI impact, giving Product, Finance, and Engineering one source of truth — long before code hits production. By pairing GenAI-native telemetry with unit-economics analytics and decision intelligence, Pay-i shows where to invest, how to price, and when to scale with confidence. Why we exist Enterprises are ready to fund GenAI, but opaque economics and shifting provider prices make credible business cases impossible. Traditional cost tools flatten spend into a single line, while tracing utilities drown teams in call-level noise. Pay-i links every generation to outcome so leaders can invest with conviction. What makes us different • ROI Traceability – connects GenAI operations to KPI lift at the use-case level • Unit-Economics Analytics – live cost-per-feature and margin by cohort • Decision Intelligence – scenario modeling that de-risks launches and optimizes model mix • Cross-Team Lens – a unified workspace so Product, Finance, and Engineering execute from the same cost-to-value truth set Vision As GenAI evolves toward multimodal, autonomous workflows, Pay-i is building the operating system that continuously steers spend toward maximum ROI, turning GenAI from an experimental cost center into a proven growth engine.

Website
www.pay-i.com
Industry
Software Development
Company size
2-10 employees
Headquarters
Redmond, WA
Type
Privately Held
Founded
2023

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  • We are excited to announce the Pay-i is the only platform to measure ROI for Microsoft Copilot Studio agents. For teams building on Copilot Studio, every agent in your portfolio now gets its own P&L inside Pay-i. What it costs to run, the business KPI it's moving, and whether the economics work. Not rolled up into a platform total. Per agent. That granularity matters because a support deflection bot and a document summarizer have entirely different economics. Your aggregate Copilot Studio spend doesn't tell you which one to scale and which one to rearchitect. The "prove the ROI" conversation is coming for every Copilot Studio deployment. The teams that get there first will be the ones with use-case-level data, not platform-level summaries. If your organization is scaling Copilot Studio we are your solution to economic clarity. #EnterpriseAI #GenAIROI #AIGovernance #AIAgents #MicrosoftAI #AIStrategy 

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  • 87% of CFOs say AI will be extremely or very important to their finance operations in 2026. Only 21% say it's delivered clear, measurable value. We see what's behind that gap. Most enterprises track GenAI spend at the model or project level: what did OpenAI cost this month, what did Project X consume this quarter. That's not where ROI lives. ROI lives at the use-case level: cost per claim processed, cost per recommendation generated, revenue influenced per customer interaction. When organizations get visibility at that level for the first time, the numbers almost always surprise them. Not because the technology is failing. Because nobody was measuring the right thing. That's what Pay-i does: instrument GenAI at the use-case level so enterprises can connect every dollar spent to the outcome it was meant to produce. CFOs stop getting token reports. They start getting answers. Until more enterprises work this way, that gap isn't a confidence problem. It's a measurement one. #GenAIROI #EnterpriseAI #AIGovernance #CFO #FinOps #AIStrategy 

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    Enterprises are scaling agentic AI faster than they can measure it. More agents. More models. More workflows. But without financial governance, every deployment is a black box. That's why we're proud to join Atos' Sovereign Agentic Studios as part of their Scaler ecosystem, alongside KYP.ai, Ema, Poolside, Noma Security, and Klarity. Pay-i is the backbone of the GenAI-first Enterprise: real-time visibility into the cost, performance, and business value of every agent in production. Inside the Sovereign Agentic Studios, that financial governance is embedded from day one, so customers can scale agentic AI with confidence and control. As our CEO David Tepper put it: "The enterprises that will lead in agentic AI are the ones that can scale it responsibly. Customers no longer have to choose between innovation speed and operational control." #AgenticAI #SovereignAI #AIFinOps #GenAI

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    CB Insights named their # 1 tech trend for 2026: AI agents are delivering value, but measuring it is the hard part. The agent market is projected to hit $13B in annual revenue. Autonomy is scaling into back-office operations, customer service, drug discovery. And yet in CB Insights' own survey, 40% of executives can't track or don't know the ROI of their agent deployments. That tracks with what we see at the transaction level. Agents chain model calls, trigger retries, and scale unpredictably based on input complexity. The cost of the same agent doing the same task can vary 10x depending on the scenario. Traditional FinOps wasn't built for that kind of variability. Teams are tracking tokens. Boards are asking about margin impact. Until those become the same conversation, agent investments will keep outpacing the ability to justify them. #GenAIROI #AIAgents #EnterpriseAI #AIEconomics #FinOps #AIStrategy  

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    56% of CEOs see no financial return from AI. But the real problem isn't the technology. It's what companies are measuring. Most enterprises track adoption: how many people are using AI tools, how many workflows are live. Very few can tell you what a specific AI workflow costs relative to the business result it delivers. Forbes framed it well: the metric of 2025 was "users." The metric of 2026 is "auditable outcomes." That's the gap. Not capability. Not spend. Visibility into whether the spend is working. If your AI reporting leads with adoption numbers, you're tracking activity. Start tracking unit economics with Pay-i. #enterpriseAI #GenAIROI #AIeconomics

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    GenAI provisioned capacity can be a game-changer for performance, latency, and data privacy. But the buying decision looks nothing like traditional cloud reservations. Pay-i CEO David Tepper, along with CTO Doron Holan and Josh Collier from Superhuman, broke this down in their latest piece with the FinOps Foundation. Dedicated throughput can dramatically improve time-to-first-token and output speed, which matters enormously for production workloads. It can also unlock data privacy guarantees that shared tiers don't offer. The complexity is in the details. Capacity models differ significantly across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Some lock you to a specific model. Others offer flexible pools but introduce new forms of waste. And the per-token math doesn't always work the way teams expect. The organizations getting this right treat capacity planning as a strategic decision, not a procurement exercise. They start with traffic shape, performance requirements, and privacy needs before they ever look at a price sheet. If your team is evaluating provisioned capacity, start with traffic shape, not price sheets. See comments below for the article. #GenAIROI #FinOps #EnterpriseAI #AIEconomics #AIStrategy

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    We are excited to announce support for Copilot Studio through our partnership with Microsoft! With this new capability, our customers will be able to scale their agent builds with confidence that they are driving business value. Learn more today at pay-i.com.

    Super happy to announce that Pay-i has been granted unique access by our partners at Microsoft to read Copilot Studio Agent metadata! This means that Pay-i is the *only* solution on the market that can track, attribute, and optimize the ROI of these agents. Copilot Studio is not M365 Copilot. Think of it as an agent builder that immediately has access to your SharePoint and other Microsoft Graph data. These agents then start doing their own thing and immediately begin racking up a bill. With Pay-i you can not only observe, but optimize their actions. Identify exactly which Agents are driving value to your business and how to fix the ones that aren't. Couldn't be happier than to be partnering with Microsoft on this, and we're excited to bring it to organizations worldwide!

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    Pay-i is taking the stage at the Microsoft AI Tour in NYC. Next Wednesday, our Co-founder and COO Erik Winters joins Microsoft's Innovation Showcase to talk about measuring and optimizing the ROI of AI agents. Agents are everywhere. But the hard question most enterprises still can't answer? Which ones are actually delivering value. Come see how Pay-i transforms raw agent telemetry into live business metrics. The kind of visibility that lets you double down on winners and fix what's not working. No slides-heavy presentation. Real solutions in action. 📍 Javits Center, Workshop 3, Level 4 📅 Wednesday, January 21st 🕚 11:15 AM EST Attending the Microsoft AI Tour? Add session BRK160-NY to your schedule and connect with Erik afterward. Not in NYC? Let's talk about how Pay-i can bring this visibility to your AI portfolio. #MicrosoftAITour #GenAIROI #AIAgents #EnterpriseAI #FinOps #PayI

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