Unlocking the Next Frontier of FinOps for AI
About the Author: Cathal Cleary - Product Leader, CloudHealth | Governing Board, FinOps Foundation
Following the announcement of AgentMinder by Broadcom at VMware Explore in Las Vegas, the enterprise AI landscape has reached a pivotal milestone. As organizations deploy autonomous agents into production workflows, managing AI economics and governance becomes just as critical as managing cloud spend.
CloudHealth is thrilled to be a part of the journey with AgentMinder. Through a series of close product integrations, we will bring comprehensive AI visibility, runtime governance, and cost optimization to the enterprise.
Enterprises need identity aware AI visibility and control.
Foundational Visibility & Multi-Source Ingestion: CloudHealth has already delivered on baseline visibility, with a comprehensive set of AI reports and dashboards showing AI spend on major CSP platforms, as well as direct integration with OpenAI and Anthropic. While we continue to build out our catalog of provider connectors, we will also ingest the rich OpenTelemetry (OTEL) data coming from gateways like AgentMinder.
Deep Identity & Mission Attribution: Enterprises need user, project and agent mission metadata to truly understand AI spend and attribute to the right business case. Having a rich set of metadata from multiple sources enables the enterprise to establish clear chargeback structures and ROI calculations.
Policy-Driven Dynamic Routing & Spend Control: Without an AI gateway such as AgentMinder, it’s impossible to have true multi-provider control and visibility. With an identity aware enterprise LLM gateway, customers can enforce real-time economic policies—such as dynamically routing non-critical prompts to cost-effective models, setting budget fallbacks, and triggering circuit breakers to prevent runaway spend.
Demand Planning & Hierarchical Budgeting: Control requires guardrails and baselines. Financial teams need to establish top-down and bottom-up budget guardrails to track spend against strategic initiatives, forecast demand and track investment burndown across missions.
Measuring True AI ROI: Cost of AI initiatives goes well beyond the LLM model costs. Infrastructure and Data layers all add significantly to the total cost. Only CloudHealth has this rich cross-cloud visibility, both public and private, giving the full investment breakdown. Strategic initiatives and business-case data can be ingested through our unique Data Connect architecture. ROI can be calculated within the platform using calculated columns.
Moving Beyond Visibility
By combining its leading FinOps capabilities with comprehensive AI visibility, CloudHealth is one of the only solutions on the market that will provide users with the total cost of AI consumption. By bridging runtime agent controls with cloud financial operations, CloudHealth and AgentMinder empower enterprises to innovate rapidly while maintaining full economic control.
Get started defining the value of AI with CloudHealth today.