Every AI budget review starts the same way: Finance asks what was spent, IT explains what was built, and neither side has a shared answer for what it was actually worth. This session looks at why CFOs and CIOs keep showing up to that conversation with two different pictures of the same spend — and what it takes to align them before the next review, not during it. We'll cover how to build a single view of your current AI investment — not just token spend, but the infrastructure behind it, across public cloud, private AI, and everything in between — so leadership starts from one picture instead of two. You'll also see how forecasting turns that picture forward-looking rather than historical, and how continuous alignment between spend and strategy keeps it accurate between budget cycles, not just at review time. You'll leave with a practical way to connect AI investment to the strategic initiatives it's meant to serve, and how ValueOps AI Tokenomics helps make that connection defensible on both sides of the table.