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The Pricing Shift Reshaping Enterprise AI Spend - with Adam Mansfield of UpperEdge

aired Jun 01, 2026 · 37.0m
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Summary

Welcome, everyone, to the Emerge AI and Business Podcast. Adam joins us on today's episode to explain the single biggest shift executives need to understand.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of it's, going, because, including: Today's guest is Adam Mansfield, Practice Leader at Upper Edge.

Key takeaways
  1. 01AI has pushed vendors towards hybrid and consumption-based pricing models that are far harder to forecast and far riskier than traditional CIP-based licensing
  2. 02To go deeper on this topic and learn how to evaluate AI vendors by assessing leadership expertise and why funding benchmarks can signal product maturity and stability, download our
  3. 03It gives you a clear mental model of why so many leaders are feeling like the ground is shifting under them when it comes to predicting spend and how they need to look at it to nav
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