START: Eric Chernoff, CEO & Founder, Fancysauce.ai "AI Cost Management, extra Fancy: Track usage, monitor ROI, and optimize spend across every AI workflow"

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A CFO at a publicly traded company on variable AI pricing:

"This is introducing my worst nightmare, which is a blank check"

Claude, Codex, Cursor, Devin, Gemini...

Every workflow creates usage and every token creates cost, and unlike something like a Gong license, the price isn't fixed.

That's the problem Eric Chernoff is building Fancysauce to solve: AI Cost Management, extra Fancy.

Track usage, monitor ROI and optimize spend across every AI workflow.

Fancysauce shows every token and ties it to the team, product, model and business value behind it.

Spend lands in the right bucket, COGS or OPEX.
Then you decide what to do about it.

Eric sees a second shift in how companies organize work.
He calls it "death of the org chart, birth of the work chart"

A human can own a task while AI assists, or AI can own it while a human approves; some tasks go entirely to one side.

Fancysauce maps that ownership across people and AI, with spend by team and project and waste, ROI and per-unit efficiency in real time.
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🎙️ Eric Chernoff, CEO, Fancysauce.ai on Fondo START
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01:57 Every token: tracking usage across Claude, Codex, Cursor, Devin, Gemini + more
03:22 Three lanes of AI spend: in-product AI, internal automation and individual usage
05:34 AI budgets by person, and understanding spend across every tool
06:30 Why the work chart replaces the org chart
07:13 Human-owned, AI-assisted vs. AI-owned, human-approved work
08:42 Why reporting to AI may happen at the task level, not the job level
10:49 The CFO problem: variable AI pricing with no fixed cost
13:14 Retain AI measured human work; Fancysauce measures work flowing through agents
15:01 Why big markets carry companies, and why Eric believes AI is an even bigger opportunity
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