Tag: Unit Economics

Cost per Completed Task: Agentic AI’s Unit of Account

Cost per completed task is the total spend an agentic AI system incurs to finish one unit of work — every token, tool call, retry, escalation, and minute of human review, added up across the whole loop. Not the price of one model call. The whole loop. This is the thesis I laid out on…

Dr. Harish Kotadia, Ph.D.

August 20, 2026

Agentic AI Cost

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Tag: Unit Economics

Cost per Completed Task: Agentic AI’s Unit of Account